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

There’s no truth to the rumor, however, that he wants Mexico to return the $10 million we paid for the Gadsden purchase.

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Pierce, he noted, did authorize the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico.

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In 1853, the United States and Mexico signed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.

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On this date in 1853, under the terms of the Gadsden Purchase, the U.S. agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for 45,535 square miles of land below the Gila from the Rio Grande to the Colorado River.

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The border sliced through these lands first as a result of the Mexican-American War and then the Gadsden Purchase in 1854.

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