Mexican Arizona
Arizona was thinly settled by Mexico in the 1840s, with little protection from Indian raids. The U.S. won the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) and in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), Mexico ceded to the U.S. the northern 70% of modern-day Arizona.
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