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The 29,670 square miles of land purchased from Mexico by the United States later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. The land was purchased for $10 million dollars and was an attempt to help solve conflicts that were lingering from the Mexican-American War.

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Which two states include land that was bought from Mexico as part of the Gadsden purchase in 1853-54?

Portions of Arizona and New Mexico originate with the Gadsden Purchase.


What territory did the US buy from Mexico for 10million in 1853?

The Mesilla or Gadsden Purchase, which included parts of Arizona and New Mexico.


What did the US acquire in the Gadsden purchase of the 1853?

Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico


What did the US acquire in the Gadsden Purchase in 1853?

Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico


The US obtained the lower part of the New Mexico territiry through what?

The Gadsden Purchase (1853).


The land that was purshased by Mexico in 1853 became part of what state?

Arizona and New Mexico. Such land purchase was known as the Gadsden Purchase.


Which two states include land that was bought from Mexico as part of the gadsden purchase 1853-54?

Southern New Mexico and Arizona. More specifically, the Mesilla Valley.


What agreement was negotiated with Mexico to allow the u.s. to buy part of Arizona and New Mexico?

Gadsden Purchase (1853)


What treaty made New Mexico part of the us?

Both the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty (1848) and the Gadsden Purchase (1853).


Why was gadsden purchase necessary?

The Gadsden Purchase, in 1853, was a part of Northern Mexico that was bought from that country at a price of $10 million. The land was originally bought in order to have a transcontinental railway system built from New Orleans to the US west coast.


Why was the Gadsden purchase necessary?

The Gadsden Purchase, in 1853, was a part of Northern Mexico that was bought from that country at a price of $10 million. The land was originally bought in order to have a transcontinental railway system built from New Orleans to the US west coast.


Which nation did the US acquire Arizona?

In 1848 as a part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican American War followed by the Gadsden Purchase in 1853.