The treaty was the Gadsden Purchase, the territory is La Mesilla, which comprises a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square kilometer) region south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande.
Only southern New Mexico and Arizona qualify as such.
Portions of Arizona and New Mexico originate with the Gadsden Purchase.
It is when the US bought the land on the southern tips of New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico, right after the Mexican War in the year 1853. It was bought for railroads.
The Tohono O'odham people got pushed out of Mexico when the USA(United States of America) won the war between them and Mexico. The USA bought all their land. They had to move into Arizona but some of them are still in Mexico.
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Gadsden purchase
It was bought so that America could further their Railroads
The Gadsen Purchase (1853), which included southern New Mexico and Arizona.
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853, named for ambassador James Gadsden, was for a strip of Mexican land which the US bought in order to build a transcontinental railroad through it and to settle some of the border issues between the US and Mexico.
Gadsden Purchase
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
After the war between the US and Mexico was over, Mexico was left defeated and weak. President James K. Polk decided to get these two areas from Mexico in return for 15 million dollars. Later, in the Gadsden Purchase, the US bought present day Arizona and New Mexico.