It helped the railroad industry finish the rail road going west. They laid out 15 million dollars for it.
It was good land to build a railroad on.
it became double the size of the united states at the time
No. It was the third and last acquisition made from Mexico. On a more general scale, it was neither the first nor the last made by the US.
1853
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