Question 3 • (AG Q3) American History 8: 25-26 (AHostetler)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War in 1848. Mexico ceded a large area of the Southwest to the United States, and the United States paid Mexico $15 million, making choice C correct. Texas had already become part of the United States before the treaty, and it did not make Texas independent.
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