The Gadsden Purchase is a region of Arizona and North-western Mexico. U.S. signed a treaty on this land on the date Dec 30th, 1853- 1854. I don't remember much about this certain place but this is the basics that I remember when I studied it!
The era was hard for African Americans because they didn't have a way to get jobs or anything due to bias.
It created a large economy around the business of transportation and it made going around and transporting goods across the states easier witch helped the trade of goods.
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