Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Botiller v. Dominguez was a U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California following the Mexican-American War. Dominga Dominguez sued to recover Rancho Las Virgenes, based on an 1834 Mexican land grant. However, the grant had never been…

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo concluded the Mexican-American War. Under its terms, Mexico ceded a vast expanse of its northern territory to the United States. These included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. In…