Land acquired through the Mexican Cession is located today in

The Mexican Cession was territory Mexico gave to the United States after the Mexican-American War, under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It included much of what is now California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. These states are in the southwestern United States, so choice D is correct.

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