ID: 901001716 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001716	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Gadsden Purchase (Mexican-USA history, 1853)

Note: Treaty by which the U.S. acquired the Mesilla Valley from Mexico; territory forms present-day southern Arizona and southern Utah. Named after James Gadsden, U.S. minister to Mexico.

Display Date: 30 December 1853

Names:

	Gadsden Purchase (Mexican-USA history, 1853) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Treaty of La Mesilla (Mexican-USA history, 1853) (English,U,P)
	Venta de la Mesilla (Mexican-USA history, 1853) (Spanish-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........Mexican history (P)
		............Gadsden Purchase (Mexican-USA history, 1853) (P)

Other Relationships:

	participant was .... México
	..... ULAN Candidate

	participant was .... United States
	..... ULAN Candidate

	created in .... La Mesilla Valley
	..... ULAN Candidate

Sources:

	Gadsden Purchase (Mexican-USA history, 1853)
	................Griswold, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1990) 60
	................Hudnall and Hudnall, Spirits of the Border IV (2005) 96
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 23 March 2017
	Treaty of La Mesilla (Mexican-USA history, 1853)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 23 March 2017
	................Leonard, Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations, Vol. 1 (2012) 379
	Venta de la Mesilla (Mexican-USA history, 1853)
	................Pedroza, Navarro and García, Historia activa de México (2005) 266
	................Canudas, Las venas de plata (2005) 887

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 23 March 2017
	................ Griswold, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1990) 60