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What were some of the geographic and economic benefits of the Mexican cession

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What did the U.S. gain by winning the Mexican-American War? ... Mexico ceded nearly all the territory now included in the U.S. states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado for $15 million and U.S. assumption of its citizens' claims against Mexico.

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