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What ensured a direct line across the American territory for the southern railroad to the Pacific?

Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
Annexation of Texas
Louisiana Purchase

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Gadsden Purchase

Explanation: The 1853 Gadsden Purchase bought a southern strip of land from Mexico (southern Arizona and New Mexico) specifically to provide a practicable, all-U.S. route for a southern transcontinental railroad to the Pacific.