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The U.S. have purchased these territories
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The Mexican Cession was part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War.
The US did pay Mexico $15M as part of the same agreement, but, even so, characterizing it as a purchase seems kind of sketchy to me.
Similar with Florida