WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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US Secretary of War Jefferson Davis had sent Gadsden to negotiate with Santa Anna for the land. Davis valued it, as did others, as the perfect tract for the construction of the southern transcontinental railroad. The railroad would connect western territories to the east and north, greatly increasing the accessibility of these new lands.According to this, the Gadsden Purchase was intended to ____
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support settlement of US territory gained through the US-Mexican War
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encourage commerce among US states formed from the Louisiana Purchase
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allow thee US and Mexico to share railroad construction costs
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encourage more people to visit Disney Land
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800s? A famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop.
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