The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas.he treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
One month into the tax filing season, the average federal tax refund was $3,120, the IRS said Thursday. 1  As of Feb. 20, the agency said it paid out $125 billion in refunds and processed about 50 million tax returns. 2  And a large majority of those returns - 83% - have qualified for a refund.
If there were 109 million refunds in 2011 and the average refund was around $3000, that means that 109 million people collectively loaned the US Government around $327 billion for the year. How nice of them. Nice work if you can get it.n previous years, the average tax refund has been in the same range, with the average peaking for the 2009 tax year before slipping: 1  Average 2012 Refund: $2,803. 2  Average 2011 Refund: $2,913.