What did the United States gain from the Gadsden Purchase?

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Jacob C.
Nov 28, 2016

The land the US gained from the Gadsden Purchase is what makes up the contiguous United States.

Explanation:

In what was known as the Gadsden Purchase, the US paid Mexico 10 million USD (roughly 260,000,000 USD in today's terms) for 29,670 square miles of land- which would later become Arizona and New Mexico.

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