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Gadsden Purchase

Home Timeline Stories Gadsden Purchase
June 22, 2019

Gadsden Purchase

US pays Mexico $10 million for 29,670 square miles of Mexican territory that becomes part of Arizona and New Mexico, giving the US a route for a southern transcontinental railroad and ownership of the copper mines at Santa Rita.

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