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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.
Christopher Gadsden (February 16, 1724 – August 28, 1805) was an American politician who was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement during the American Revolution. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress , a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War , Lieutenant Governor of ...
Gadsden joined the U.S. Army in December 1812. [3] He served as a commissioned officer commanded by General Andrew Jackson, who was later elected president in 1828.Gadsden served Gen. Jackson both during the War of 1812 against the British Army, and, from 1816 to 1821, in protecting the southern U.S. border from raiders — Native Americans, maroons (escaped slaves and their descendants ...
The purposes of the Gadsden Purchase are the construction of a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route and the reconciliation of outstanding border issues following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican–American War. Many early settlers in the region are pro-slavery.
When the Union Army entered Savannah, Georgia during the American Civil War, they occupied what is now called the John Montmollin Building; it had a large sign that read "A. Bryan's Negro Mart" and was described as having "handcuffs, whips, and staples for tying, etc. Bills of sale of slaves by hundreds, and letters, all giving faithful ...
From protests and arrests to a visit from Martin Luther King Jr., see the places in Gadsden where pivotal moments of the civil rights movement happened.
Gadsden Purchase of 1853; Historical political divisions of the United States in the present State of Arizona: Unorganized territory created by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848–1850 Compromise of 1850; State of Deseret (extralegal), 1849–1850; Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912 Gadsden Purchase of 1853; American Civil War, 1861–1865
Gadsden Mayor Craig Ford, left, makes a point during his "State of the City" presentation Nov. 7, 2023, at The Venue at Coosa Landing in Gadsden. At right is local radio personality J. Holland ...