Borderlands Community Locate

Mexican Cession Map — pre-1846 Mexican territory boundary (including all of present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas) shown against post-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 boundary; further changes shown for 1853 Gadsden Purchase; the original 1846 boundary shown for Texas Annexation context. Star icons mark the Mexican American towns and rancho communities that were INCORPORATED INTO the US by the treaty (NOT immigrant communities) — Santa Fe NM, Taos NM, Tucson AZ, Los Angeles CA, San Diego CA, Monterey CA, San Antonio TX. Treaty Article IX excerpt printed in margin: 'The Mexicans... shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time... to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution.' Style: cartographic with clear before/after boundary lines, Article IX quoted in margin.