Puerto Penasco Mexico AKA Rocky Point

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Negotiations went on until 1853, when James Gadsden, a South Carolina railroad promoter, was authorized by the US Congress to make 5 different secret offers to the Mexican government, for which we would pay from $15 million to $50 million. Each option included enough territory for the US to have a southern railroad route to the Pacific ocean, and a seaport on the Sea of Cortez.The President of Mexico, General Santa Ana (of Alamo fame), didn't want to give up the territory connecting mainland Mexico with the Baja peninsula. Through his envoy to Washington, he lobbied Congress to come up with an offer for land that did not cut off his land bridge to the Baja. In 1854, Congress agreed to Gen. Santa Ana's demands and paid $10 million for the territory that now makes up the southern portions of New Mexico and Arizona. Known as the Gadsden Purchase, this land includes both Tucson and Yuma, but did not include access to the Sea of Cortez. Thus, Arizona lost the chance to have it's own beach front property.</td> </tr> </table>