gadsden purchase

  1. Mechadogzilla

    What would the consequences be of an unsuccessful Gasdsen Purchase be?

    The Gadsden Purchase was an agreement by the United States and Mexico that secured them a significant piece of land in what is now southern Arizona and New Mexico. Southerners desired a transcontinental railway line from the South to the West Coast, believing it would bring economic prosperity...
  2. Sicarius Sanguinius

    Gadsden Purchase rethought

    Hi all The then president in 1853 Franklin Pierce sought to buy a part of Mexico in what is today known as the Gadsden Purchase as most of you will be aware. However what expansionist America we now know was more expansionist that most think. He had many drawn out many proposals but I want to...
  3. GauchoBadger

    How does the lack of a Gadsden Purchase affect the ACW?

    So, suppose that either the US government is uninterested in the purchase of more territory in the southern border or that the mexican government is more reluctant to give up even more territory to the gringos. How does such a lack of a proper connection between southern Arizona and southern...
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