USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -On December 30, 1853, a treaty was signed where Mexico sold the United States 29, 000 square miles of territory in the area that would eventually become southern Arizona and New Mexico.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden, and three envoys of the President of Mexico General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, signed the Gadsden Purchase, or Gadsden Treaty, in Mexico City on December 30, 1853.