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The Gadsden Purchase. President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to Mexico City in 1853 with several proposals for buying from Mexico land to the south of the boundaries established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
How did the US the acquired the gadsden purchase? After the Mexican-American War, the United States was forced to withdraw their troops from much of the conquered land that makes up modern-day Mexico.