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Gadsden Purchase of 1853
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase was 29,670 square miles that was added to the US in 1853/1854.
The United States paid Mexico 10 million dollars for the Gadsden Purchase, which included about 29,670 square miles of territory in what is now southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The purpose of the purchase was to acquire land for the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
The purchase was arranged by James Gadsden, Ambassador to Mexico and it extended the southern borders of present day Arizona and New Mexico for the purpose of constructing a transcontinental railroad.
Gadsden Purchase of 1853
James Gadsden
None. The Gadsden purchase was pressured upon Mexico by Gadsden himself.
Mexico
It was to complete the transcontinental railroad by going around the Rocky Mountains to the south instead of over them.
Gadsden Purchase
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The Gadsden Purchase.
The Gadsden purchase was made in 1853. The Gadsden Territory was the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
The Gadsden Purchase was 29,670 square miles that was added to the US in 1853/1854.
Mexico.
The Gadsden Purchase is a region of Arizona and New Mexico. It was bought by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden.