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Dec 30, 1853:
Southern U.S. border established
James Gadsden, the U.S. minister to Mexico, and General Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, sign the Gadsden
Purchase in Mexico City. The treaty settled the dispute over the
location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas, and
established the final boundaries of the southern United States.
For the price of $15 million, later reduced to $10 million, the
United States acquired approximately 30,000 square miles of land
in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.
Jefferson Davis, the U.S. secretary of war under President
Franklin Pierce, had sent Gadsden to negotiate with Santa Anna
for the land, which was deemed by a group of political and
industrial leaders to be a highly strategic location for the
construction of the southern transcontinental railroad. In 1861,
the "big four" leaders of western railroad construction--Collis
P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles
Crocker--established the Southern Pacific branch of the Central
Pacific Railroad.
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