Gadsden Purchase
Land purchased from Mexico by the United States in 1854
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla, lit. 'La Mesilla sale'), also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is the acquisition of a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico by the United States from Mexico. The first draft was signed on December 31, 1853, by James Gadsden, US Minister to Mexico, and by Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico. The treaty took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande, where the United States wanted to build what is now known as the Sunset Route, a transcontinental railroad to California which the Southern Pacific Railroad later completed in 1881–1883. These lands allowed the railroad to follow a flatter and more direct route, lowering its anticipated costs and allowing faster completion, and particularly encouraging a route to a port in the Southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico. The purchase also clearly defined the...
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