New Mexico Territory
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The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexic
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Illustrated coat of arms of the New Mexico Territory, published in State Arms of the Union in 1876
Gadsden Purchase
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The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico. The f
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…had been included in the failed statehood proposal of early 1850, the boundary disputes with Texas had been dispelled by the Compromise of 1850. The Gadsden Purchase was acquired by the United States from Mexico in 1853/1854 (known as the "Venta de La Mesilla" or the "Sale of La Mesilla"), arranged by the then-American…
c. 1831 portrait of James Gadsden by Charles Fraser
U.S. Secretary of State James Buchanan (1791–1868), who later became 15th President of the United States (1857–1861)
Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico
The Gadsden Purchase historical marker near Interstate 10