The United States bought 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal that became known as the Gadsden Purchase, for the man who engineered it, James Gadsden. (The area became the southern part of Arizona and New Mexico.)
The United States bought 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal that became known as the Gadsden Purchase, for the man who engineered it, James Gadsden. (The area became the southern part of Arizona and New Mexico.)