The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War. It was signed on the 2nd of February 1848 in the town of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Cover of the exchange copy of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
First page of the original treaty
President Manuel de la Peña y Peña
E. Gilman, [United States (after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)], 1848
The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico. The f
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
…in general, and rejected this expansion in particular. The amount of land gained by the United States from Mexico was further increased due to the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which ceded parts of present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the United States. Nicholas Trist negotiated the peace talks; Trist, the…
c. 1831 portrait of James Gadsden by Charles Fraser
U.S. Secretary of State James Buchanan (1791–1868), who later became 15th President of the United States (1857–1861)
Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico
The Gadsden Purchase historical marker near Interstate 10