{"id":1638,"date":"2026-12-30T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-12-30T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:14:28","slug":"gadsden-purchase-treaty-was-signed-in-1853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Gadsden Purchase Treaty Was Signed in 1853"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28314\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28314\" class=\"wp-image-28314 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Gadsden-Purchase-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Gadsden Purchase<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Gadsden Purchase Treaty was signed in 1853<\/strong>. The United States purchased from Mexico a strip of land south of the Gila River. James Gadsden, United States minister to Mexico, negotiated the deal with Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexico\u2019s leader. The United States paid ten million dollars for the area. The country gained almost 30,000 square miles of territory. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/reform\/jb_reform_gadsden_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gadsden Purchase<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gadsden Purchase Treaty was signed in 1853. The United States purchased from Mexico a strip of land south of the Gila River. James Gadsden, United States minister to Mexico, negotiated the deal with Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexico\u2019s leader. The United States paid ten million dollars for the area. The country gained almost 30,000 <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1638' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4749,4748,4738,4746,4747,1130,407],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4749","tag-antonio-lopez-de-santa-anna","tag-december-30","tag-gadsden-purchase","tag-james-gadsden","tag-mexico","tag-united-states","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29924,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/29924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}