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The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
Gadsden Purchase, from Mexico: 1854: 29,670: 76,845: ... Water Island, by purchase from the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company based in Denmark ...
New Mexico Territory, 1852 The Gadsden Purchase, 1853. The Compromise of 1850 put an end to the push for immediate New Mexico statehood. Approved by the United States Congress in September 1850, the legislation provided for the establishment of New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory. It also defined the disputed western boundary of Texas.
James Gadsden (May 15, 1788 – December 26, 1858) [1] was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman after whom the Gadsden Purchase is named, pertaining to land which the United States bought from Mexico, and which became the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico.
Gadsden Purchase: Danish Gold Coast [12] United Kingdom Denmark: 10,000 GBP 1850 ~12,000 km² ~1.2 GBP/km² Saxe-Lauenburg [14] Prussia Austria: 2,500,000 Danish rigsdaler [15] 1865 1,000 km² 2,500 Rigsdaler/km² Gastein Convention: Alaska [16] United States Russia: $7,200,000 USD 1867 1,717,856 km² 4 USD/km² Alaska Purchase: Dutch Gold ...
This treaty became known as the Gadsden Purchase (and as Venta de la Mesilla in Mexico). The treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on April 25, 1854 and signed by U.S. President Franklin Pierce. Final approval by the Mexican Congress took place on June 8, 1854.
1854 – Gadsden Purchase from Mexico; 1854 – Kansas–Nebraska Act; nullified Missouri Compromise; 1854 – Ostend Manifesto; 1854 – Whig Party collapses; 1854 – Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan; 1854 – Walker Expedition into Nicaragua; 1854-1855 Know-Nothing Party, mushroom growth and sudden collapse
The Treaty of Mesilla, which concluded the Gadsden purchase of 1854, had significant implications for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Article II of the treaty annulled article XI of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and article IV further annulled articles VI and VII of Guadalupe Hidalgo.