The Gadsden Purchase, which included most of south Arizona and a small part of southwestern New Mexico.
It was the Gadsden Purchase (1853), and it included the Mesilla Valley, now part of southern New Mexico and Arizona.
Southern New Mexico and Arizona, known as the Mesilla Valley. This is known as the Gadsden Purchase (1853).
A strip of United States territory along southern New Mexico and Arizona bought from Mexico in 1853. It is named for James Gadsden, ambassador to Mexico from 1853-56, who negotiated the treaty which included the terms of the purchase. The cost was $10,000,000 and also included the settlement of various claims by Mexico against the United States.
The Gadsden Purchase is the area of land in southern Arizona and southern New Mexico that was purchased from México so that the transcontinental railroad could go around the Rocky Mountains without leaving the country.
some effects were having to buy the territory and compromise with the federalists
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Gadsden Purchase (1853)
Only two: southern Arizona and New Mexico, at the Gadsden Purchase (1853).
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James Gadsden, the US Ambassador to Mexico.
A strip of United States territory along southern New Mexico and Arizona bought from Mexico in 1853. It is named for James Gadsden, ambassador to Mexico from 1853-56, who negotiated the treaty which included the terms of the purchase. The cost was $10,000,000 and also included the settlement of various claims by Mexico against the United States.
He didnt necesarily buy it. the Mexican-American war decided who won the Louisiana territory, and we won it from Mexico :)
The US, under James Polk, offered to buy California from Mexico before the Mexican War.
To but the Louisiana Territory from Fance
we bought the louisiana territory in 1803
partly, not really most of it was gained through the Mexican war and the remainder was "bought" through the Gadsden purchase for 10 million dollars
President Polk offered to buy New Mexico and California from Mexico.