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What is the gadsten purchase?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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The Gadsden Purchase was the buying an area in extreme southern New Mexico and Arizona south of the Gila River. It was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853 to ensure territorial rights for a practicable southern railroad route to the Pacific Coast.

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