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Gadsden Purchase
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Etymology
Named after James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
Proper noun
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A region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla in 1854.
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