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James Gadsden

American diplomat, soldier, planter, politician and railroad manager (1788–1858)

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Feb 4, 2026

How did the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 relate to the boundaries set by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

of 1853 was a targeted territorial adjustment that completed and clarified portions of – border left ambiguous by the , adding the southern strips of and New Mexico and altering boundary articles of t...

Feb 4, 2026

What were the terms and controversies of the 1853 Gadsden Purchase compared with the 1848 Mexican Cession?

The 1848 , sealed in the , transferred roughly half a million square miles of Mexican territory to the for about $15 million and reshaped North America after the . The 1853–54 was a much smaller, $10 ...