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

Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Annexation of Texas
Louisiana Purchase

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Gadsden Purchase

Explanation: The 1853 Gadsden Purchase acquired the strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico specifically to provide a lower, more direct route across U.S. territory for a southern transcontinental railroad to the Pacific.