Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The United States acquired the whole of present-day California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wyoming. The Mexicans received $15 million and had debts of $3.25 million canceled. The war also ended the dispute over the possession of Texas. . . . Most of Mexico's cities were occupied, and with the capture of Mexico City on September 14, 1847, the fighting subsided. . . . In 1853, the Gadsden Purchase provided the U.S. with the remaining parts of Arizona and New Mexico." [Furtado: 1001 Days] "In 1848, US troops occupied Mexico City and took huge spoils of war: control over all or part of the future states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah, along with California and, of course, Texas. Although sparsely settled, these lands constituted about half the territorial claims of Mexico. The heroic (and suicidal) last stand of Mexican military cadets against US soldiers became a potent patriotic symbol in Mexico, and Mexicans’ early admiration of the United States took on the darker tones of a love-hate relationship." [Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, 4th Ed., p. 159]