Gadsden Purchase

noun

1. a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.

Gadsden Purchase

/ ˈɡædzdən /

noun

1. an area of about 77 000 sq km (30 000 sq miles) in present-day Arizona and New Mexico, bought by the US from Mexico for 10 million dollars in 1853. The purchase was negotiated by James Gadsden (1788–1858), US diplomat

Example Sentences

The price paid for the new territory, which was temporarily called the "Gadsden Purchase," was ten million dollars.

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The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 secured a further small strip of territory from Mexico.

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