1 / 9

Gadsden Purchase 1854

Gadsden Purchase 1854. Transcontinental Railroad. Primary reason for purchasing the land Railroad would stretch from the heart of the Deep South to the coast of the Pacific Ocean US land above the purchase was too mountainous to lay a railroad. Ambassador Gadsden. James Gadsden

lyle
Download Presentation

Gadsden Purchase 1854

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Gadsden Purchase1854

  2. Transcontinental Railroad • Primary reason for purchasing the land • Railroad would stretch from the heart of the Deep South to the coast of the Pacific Ocean • US land above the purchase was too mountainous to lay a railroad

  3. Ambassador Gadsden • James Gadsden • American Ambassador to Mexico • Negotiated purchase of territory from Mexico

  4. Purchase • 29,670 square miles • Major portion of present day Arizona and New Mexico • Last border change and territory acquisition of the contiguous United States

  5. Official Proceedings • Negotiated by Ambassador Gadsden on December 30, 1853 • Ratified by the US Senate and signed by US President Franklin Pierce on April 25, 1854 • Transferred by Mexico on June 8, 1854

  6. Price • US paid Mexico $10 Million • Equivalent of $260 Million today

  7. Lasting Results • Cemented USA contiguous border to what it is today • North did not support building of the railroad in the South • Railroad was not completed until 1881, at the time it was the 2nd transcontinental railroad

  8. Gadsden Purchase Chart

More Related