On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...

under the conventions between the two republics severally concluded on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty ...

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in the village of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb. 2, 1848, ending the Mexican War and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean.

STATE48! It has a nice ring to it and it looks good on a t-shirt. Beyond the marketing though, that “48” represents a long ...