The Gadsden Purchase was negotiated in 1853 by James Gadsden. Mexico sold the United States a piece of land in what is now Arizona and New Mexico, in exchange for $10 million.
This treaty helped to resolve some unsettled issues from the Mexican-American War and also strengthened the South's claim to the transcontinental railroad (there had been much debate about where this should be located).
Some key people include:
James Gadsden (the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico)
President Franklin Pierce (signed the treaty)
Jefferson Davis (Pierce's Secretary of War, who strongly influenced this agreement)
William Marcy (Pierce's Secretary of State, who instructed Gadsden as to what provisions to push for)
Santa Anna (Mexican president who signed the treaty)
The Mesilla or Gadsden Purchase, which included parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
Both added to U.S. land that had been part of Mexico.
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853, was mainly designed to provide a good railroad route to California, to transport heavy items such as mining supplies. One eastern hub was thought to be New Orleans. Another hub could have been Charleston, South Carolina. Neither city was, as Omaha, Nebraska would be connected to Sacramento, California in 1869. The Gadsden Purchase was a waste of time and money.
In 1848 as a part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican American War followed by the Gadsden Purchase in 1853.
The Gadsden Purchase saw the purchase of land from Mexico by the United States. Most of the land acquired from this purchased exists in southern Arizona just below Phoenix. The remaining land exists in New Mexico.
The Mesilla or Gadsden Purchase, which included parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
Portions of Arizona and New Mexico originate with the Gadsden Purchase.
Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico
Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico
The Gadsden Purchase (1853).
Arizona and New Mexico. Such land purchase was known as the Gadsden Purchase.
The Gadsden Purchase, in 1853, was a part of Northern Mexico that was bought from that country at a price of $10 million. The land was originally bought in order to have a transcontinental railway system built from New Orleans to the US west coast.
The Gadsden Purchase, in 1853, was a part of Northern Mexico that was bought from that country at a price of $10 million. The land was originally bought in order to have a transcontinental railway system built from New Orleans to the US west coast.
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
Both added to U.S. land that had been part of Mexico.
No, the total area included in the purchase was 29,670 square miles most of which is now a part of Arizona.
Both the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty (1848) and the Gadsden Purchase (1853).