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#historyonleo #onthisday On December 30th 1853 Mexico signs treaty with United States and cedes territory that of today's southernmost parts of Arizona and New Mexico in exchange for 10 million US$. Gadsden Purchase, motivated with plans to build southern route for transcontinental railroad, represents last major territorial expansion of USA in North America.

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