The Gadsden Purchase was obtained by negotiating with Mexican ruler President Santa Anna. For a price of $10 million, James Gadsden, headed the negotiations. After the US Senate gave its approval, US President Franklin Pierce signed the purchase agreement on June 24, 1853. The purchase was intended to be necessary for the construction of a transcontinental railway from New Orleans to the West coast.
The United States paid Mexico $10 million. It was needed to complete a railroad, and it made it seem like the American dream of the Manifest Destiny had been fufilled.
The United States bought the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico
to gain land for a railroad
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Gadsden Purchase
Not directly. The Gadsden Purchase was solely to obtain railroad right of way for a proposed southern Transcontinental Railroad.
The Gadsden Purchase was 29,670 square miles that was added to the US in 1853/1854.
Gadsden Purchase of 1853
This purchase was made to obtain a strip on land over which to build a trans-continental railroad to connect the rest of the US with California.
The Gadsden Purchase.
Gadsden Purchase
None. The Gadsden purchase was pressured upon Mexico by Gadsden himself.
Not directly. The Gadsden Purchase was solely to obtain railroad right of way for a proposed southern Transcontinental Railroad.
The Gadsden Purchase was 29,670 square miles that was added to the US in 1853/1854.
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Gadsden Purchase of 1853
The Gadsden purchase was made in 1853. The Gadsden Territory was the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
The gadsden purchase.
This purchase was made to obtain a strip on land over which to build a trans-continental railroad to connect the rest of the US with California.
December 30, 1853
the gadsden purchase!! :)