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The Mexican Cession in 1848 gained the United States 830,000 sq miles of territory. Some American politicians wanted to annex more or all of Mexico. John C. Calhoun for example wanted more territory for farmland, but not the large population centers of the country. If the United States pushed hard enough they probably would have got Baja California, Sonora, & Chihuahua, along with all the territory they got from the original cession.
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