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None. The Gadsden purchase was pressured upon Mexico by Gadsden himself.
The Gadsden purchase was made in 1853. The Gadsden Territory was the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
The Gadsden Purchase.
He was the US Minister to Mexico who made the Gadsden purchase. He was also a Southern railroad man with dreams of empire.
The Mesilla or Gadsden Purchase, which included parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
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.
The Gadsden Purchase took place in June of 1853. The US believed that a transcontinental railroad would begin in New Orleans and head west to California. The Gadsden Purchase was required to make the railway to the West Coast more efficient. The US paid Mexico $10 million for that small territory.
Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico
Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico
Gadsden Purchase. It was done largely to get land needed for a southern railroad line.
The Gadsden Purchase.
Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. The Gadsden Purchase completed the southern borders of Arizona and New Mexico.