NBC News Learn: The Gadsden Purchase
On December 30, 1853, the United States and Mexico signed an agreement called the Gadsden Purchase. Through this agreement, the United States bought land from Mexico to build a railroad in the southern part of the country. The land later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. This purchase helped complete the United States as one nation stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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