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The Gadsden Purchase .

gave additional territory to Texas

gave territory back to Mexico

secured the border of Oregon

secured the continental United States

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secured the continental United States.

The 1853 Gadsden Purchase bought land from Mexico (parts of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico), settling the final U.S.–Mexico boundary and completing the contiguous United States.