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The United States paid Mexico millions of dollars for land, specifically as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, saw the U.S. acquire vast territories, including California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, for $15 million. Later, in 1853, the Gadsden Purchase added another 29,670 square miles (76,845 square kilometers) of land, now southern Arizona and New Mexico, to the U.S. for $10 million.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
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