[DOC] [TLE] Gadsden Purchase - Wikipedia [PAR] The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-
day southern ... The administration of President Franklin Pierce, strongly 
influenced by Secretary ... He was concerned that the increasing railroad 
construction in the North was .... Clayton then instructed Robert P. Letcher, the 
minister to Mexico,... [DOC] [TLE] Gadsden Purchase, 18531854 - Milestones in the History of U.S. ... [PAR] Fearing the colonists would rebel as those in Texas had, Mexican President Juan 
... Pierce sent James Gadsden, the new U.S. Minister to Mexico, to negotiate with 
... Gadsden to renegotiate a border that provided a route for a southern railroad, 
... so on December 30, 1853 he and Gadsden signed a treaty stipulating that the
... [DOC] [TLE] Gadsden Purchase - Republic of New Mexico [PAR] Feb 3, 2012 ... Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, serving .... He was 
concerned that the increasing railroad construction in the ..... the minister to 
Mexico, to negotiate a treaty to protect Hargous rights. .... Gadsden was 
authorized to purchase any of six parcels of land with a price fixed for each. [DOC] [TLE] Franklin Pierce and the Gadsden Purchase - Presidential History ... [PAR] Nov 16, 2012 ... By the time Franklin Pierce became President in March of 1853, the ... was 
looking for a southern route for a transcontinental railroad. ... Santa Anna was 
willing to deal because he needed money to rebuild the Mexican Army for 
defense ... Gadsden was authorized to purchase any of six parcels of land with... [DOC] [TLE] Gadsden Purchase - studylib.net [PAR] 1 Gadsden Purchase Background Southern route for the Transcontinental 
Railroad Southern ... [5] Gadsden had become the president of the South 
Carolina Canal and Rail Road ... In 1850 he advocated secession by South 
Carolina when California was .... Clayton then instructed Robert P. Letcher, the 
minister to Mexico,... [DOC] [TLE] Most Desperate People: The Genesis of Texas Exceptionalism [PAR] May 7, 2011 ... and from 1821 to 1836 Texas was a Mexican province. ...... He portrayed Travis, 
Branch T. Archer, President of the 1835 Consultation and. [DOC] [TLE] Convergence and Divergence in North America - University of ... [PAR] Pierce, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser ... He critiques 
comparative analyses ...... case does not ask the British parliament to authorize 
its ..... the borderlands the United States shares with Mexico. ...... cies) to 
purchase cut-rate generic drugs. And ...... ister and President and between 
Canadian Ministers and. [DOC] [TLE] Railroads and Coal - DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska ... [PAR] way Canadian and Mexican borders are treated  as an interior borderland. ...... 
president to exchange lands as he saw fit: to cause so much of any territory ...... 
Pierce, Papers Respecting the Rights and Interests of the Choctaw Nation, and 
Their ..... authorized by Congress to construct a railroad from any point north to 
any. [DOC] [TLE] transcontinental railroad  Freedmen's Patrol  Page 2 [PAR] Jun 25, 2013 ... Nor did he count his preferred transcontinental railroad route from .... Such a 
route crossed the South, but only in its most contested borderland where chilly 
Missouri with ... All the Congress had to do was authorize a territory government 
for .... He learned of his appointment as minister to Mexico from Davis,... [DOC] [TLE] June  2013  Freedmen's Patrol [PAR] Jun 28, 2013 ... Douglas wanted his railroad, his profits, and the advancement of his race. ... 
Platte Purchase area of northeast Missouri and Benton's (9.17% enslaved) ... 
Suffice it to say that he never served as President, not even for the one day 
claimed. ..... He learned of his appointment as minister to Mexico from Davis,... [DOC] [TLE] Frontier in Transition- A History of Southwestern Colorado [PAR] With the advent of mining and rail transportation in southwestern Colorado, ..... 
across the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, and into New Mexico. ..... present 
Delta, Colorado in 1828, from which he sent out trapping parties along the ..... 
under the leadership of President Franklin Pierce, to employ four engineering 
survey. [DOC] [TLE] American Civil War facts,

Question: As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads
Answer: James Gadsden