Gadsden Purchase
To gain land for a Southern transcontinental railroad
The Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 purchased land that Mexico had retained under the Mexican Cession. The land south of the Gila River allowed a southern route to Texas, avoiding mountainous terrain.
Acquisition of land for the right of way for a possible southern route for the Transcontinental Railroad.
Not directly. The Gadsden Purchase was solely to obtain railroad right of way for a proposed southern Transcontinental Railroad.
Gadsden
The Gadsden Purchase.
He was the US Minister to Mexico who made the Gadsden purchase. He was also a Southern railroad man with dreams of empire.
Gadsden Purchase. It was done largely to get land needed for a southern railroad line.
Gadsden purchase
Gadsden Purchase
To gain land for a Southern transcontinental railroad
The Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is the area of land in southern Arizona and southern New Mexico that was purchased from México so that the transcontinental railroad could go around the Rocky Mountains without leaving the country.
Build a railroad
This purchase was made to obtain a strip on land over which to build a trans-continental railroad to connect the rest of the US with California.