Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo,the United States paid Mexico $15 million for the strip of land that finished the "building" of the United States and gave the country its final border with Mexico

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The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, and the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for the territories of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of several other states, not just a strip of land. The Gadsden Purchase in 1853 involved a separate payment for a strip of land that finalized the U.S.-Mexico border.

Under the Terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo,the United States