1848 treaty to end the
Mexican-American War, named after the town of Guadalupe
Hidalgo. As a result of this treaty, the
United States gained substantial territories, through
the
annexation of
Texas and the purchase of
New Mexico,
Arizona,
California,
and parts of other southwestern states.
This
treaty proved to be a source of some contention in the US
Chicano movement of
the 1970s, brought to the forefront by people who claimed that the US did not hold to the
conditions of the treaty, which required the US to grant
equal rights to any
Mexican
peoples who chose to remain within US
borders after it was signed.