<Tr> <Th> Citations </Th> <Td> 9 Stat. 922; TS 207; 9 Bevans 791 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> See also the military convention of 29 February 1848 (5 Miller 407; 9 Bevans 807). </Td> </Tr> <P> The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican--American War (1846--48). The treaty came into force on July 4, 1848 . </P> <P> With the defeat of its army and the fall of its capital, Mexico entered into negotiations to end the war . The treaty called for the U.S. to pay $15 million to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to $3.25 million . It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado . Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights . </P>

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