Will Kürlich Kerl
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What is the least the USA would have taken during the Mexican-American War with an American victory?
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Assuming "nothing" isn't a possibility - adjust the Texas-Mexico border to the Rio Grande and a few other small tweaks.
I doubt it would happen even if the US was ahistorically willing to do less than "as much as we can", but you asked what could be done, not what would be.
The Texan claim to the border, as well as California down to San Fransisco Bay. They wanted that harbor on the Pacific coast. After the settling of the Oregon dispute, they would have had one anyway, but that was not clear at the time.
The US tried to get Mexico to agree to this before the war, and if Mexico accepted there would have been no war.