Gadsden Purchase
- The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico
- United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico
- Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War
- While the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended the Mexican-American War in February 1848
- Tensions between the Governments of Mexico and the United States continued to simmer over the next six years
- The two countries each claimed the Mesilla Valley as part of their own country
- The Mexican Government demanded monetary compensation for Native American attacks in the region because under the Treaty
- the United States had agreed to protect Mexico from such attacks
- Insisting that while they had agreed to protect Mexico from Native American attacks
- The persistent efforts of private American citizens to enter Mexico illegally and incite rebellions in an effort to gain territory exacerbated tensions between the governments
- These continuing tensions between Mexico and the United States complicated U.S
- efforts to find a southern route for a transcontinental railroad as the only viable routes passed through Mexican territory
- Mexican officials evicted Americans from their property in the disputed Mesilla Valley
- When the U.S. Government did not act, Governor William Lane of New Mexico declared the Mesilla Valley part of the U.S. territory of New Mexico.
The Gadsden Purchase was territory for the United States and purchased from Mexico. Gadsden Purchase is placed in southern Arizona and the southwester part of New Mexico. Gadsden Purchase is to the north of the Gila River in the United States. There are many mountainous (and many nacher areas.) The Gadsden Purchase happen because they wanted to finish the rail road and finish manifest destiny.