The Gadsden Purchase Was

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Multiple Choice

The Gadsden Purchase was

• A) the symbolic first land sale in the new Kansas Territory.
• B) James Gadsden's purchase of supplies for an unofficial military expedition to Honduras.
• C) a small strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico purchased from Mexico for a railroad line.
• D) a plan to purchase Cuba from Spain for a maximum price of $25 million.
• E) the first slave whose freedom was purchased with money raised by John Brown.

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