USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande where the U.S. wanted to build a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route, which the Southern Pacific Railroad later completed in 1881–1883. The purchase also aimed to resolve other border issues.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Gadsden Purchase is a roughly 30, 000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was acquired by the United States in a treaty signed by American ambassador to Mexico James Gadsden on December 30, 1853.

Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. Minister to Mexico, James Gadsden negotiated with Mexican President Santa Anna to purchase 29, 670 square miles of Mexican border land for $10 million. Congress approved the funds for the land purchase in 1884. Mexico needed the money to fund the quelling of ongoing rebellion.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1853 President Pierce sent Gadsden to Mexico to negotiate a redefinition of the border. The Mexican regime was urgently in need of money and for $10 million sold the required strip of territory south of the Gila River, in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.