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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.
The Gadsden Purchase, which is known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico, is a region of land inside of what is now the southern part of the states Arizona and New Mexico. The land in this purchase includes the land west of the Rio Grande and south of the Gila River.