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    The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern...
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    James Gadsden (May 15, 1788 – December 26, 1858) was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman after whom the Gadsden Purchase is named, pertaining...
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  • The Gadsden Purchase half dollar was a proposed commemorative coin to be issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint. Legislation for the half dollar...
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    railroad-friendly land at the expense of Mexico, thus bringing about the Gadsden Purchase of 1853. The Zimmermann Telegram, which partly offered Imperial German...
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    Christopher Gadsden (February 16, 1724 – August 28, 1805) was an American politician who was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement...
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    disputes with Texas had been dispelled by the Compromise of 1850. The Gadsden Purchase was acquired by the United States from Mexico in 1853/1854 (known as...
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  • of the Gadsden flag James Gadsden (1788–1858), American statesman and namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, grandson of Christopher James I. Gadsden (born...
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    by the United States from Mexico was further increased due to the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which ceded parts of present-day southern Arizona and New...
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    Alaska Day is a holiday for all state workers. Florida Purchase Gadsden Purchase Louisiana Purchase Johnston, Louis; Williamson, Samuel H. (2023). "What...
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    expansionist movement, the Pierce administration completed the Gadsden land purchase from Mexico, clashed with Great Britain in Central America, and...
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    party against him. He was a Young America expansionist who signed the Gadsden Purchase of land from Mexico and led a failed attempt to acquire Cuba from Spain...
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    expansion of the New Mexico Territory in 1853, as a result of the Gadsden Purchase, several proposals for a division of the territory and the organization...
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    adopted "Gadsden" in honor of Colonel James Gadsden of South Carolina. He later was noted for negotiating the United States' Gadsden Purchase from Mexico...
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    the Gila River by treaty from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase on June 8, 1854. Under this treaty and purchase, Tucsón became a part of the United States...
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    southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase. Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot summers...
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    1846–47, much of Southern Arizona was purchased by the United States from Mexico for $15,000,000 in the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. More recently, Southern Arizona...
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    continued to cede national territory to the Americans through the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. After he was overthrown and exiled in 1855 through the liberal...
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    was officially caused by a map error, was resolved in 1853 with the Gadsden Purchase. Mesilla became a part of the United States, as well as the southern...
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    area through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 and the smaller Gadsden Purchase in 1854. While the region's boundaries are not officially defined,...
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    ships of the Mexican Navy. The regime found new funds through the Gadsden Purchase, which nonetheless proved to be controversial for once again alienating...
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    named for prominent U.S. diplomat James Gadsden (1788–1858), who was responsible for the Gadsden Purchase. Gadsden is located at 35°46′38″N 88°59′26″W /...
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    repatriated by 1934. With the U.S. victory in the Mexican–American War, the Gadsden Purchase, and the annexation of the Republic of Texas, much of the present-day...
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    all obligations of Article XI five years later by Article II of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853. Before the secession of Texas, Mexico comprised almost 1,700...
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    presidential goals. With the exception of the territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, and some later minor adjustments, the territorial acquisitions under...
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  • Revue d'histoire. 21 (93): 1–74. 1933. doi:10.3406/outre.1933.2853. "Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs. "Herzogtum...
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    Valencia Counties. Mora County was created in 1860. Following the Gadsden Purchase of 1853–1854, the northeasternmost part of the New Mexico Territory...
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    and U.S. Secretary of State. In the latter office, he negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, the last major acquisition of land in the contiguous United States...
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    abandoned. Five years later, the Gadsden Purchase completed the creation of the current U.S.–Mexico border. The purchase was initially to accommodate a...
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    their current shape when the United States and Mexico agreed to the Gadsden Purchase. The Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan administrations sought to gain control...
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    have been concluded between the two nations bilaterally, such as the Gadsden Purchase, and multilaterally, such as the 2019 United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement...
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