Question

Herbert Hoover’s first veto was against a coin commemorating this agreement. Options for this agreement were presented by Christopher Ward, an agent of investors in the Garay (“gah-RYE”) settlement. Five years later, the McLane–Ocampo Treaty reinforced this agreement’s Article 8, which called for a port in the area near present-day Rocky Point. This agreement divided the lands of the O’odham (“AW-tum”) people and provided for major (-5[1])construction project (10[1])across the Isthmus (-5[1])of (-5[1])Tehuantepec (“teh-wan-TEH-pek”). This agreement’s South (-5[1])Carolinian (-5[1])namesake intended for it to allow a transcontinental railroad through the (10[1])Mesilla (10[1])(“meh-SEE-yah”) valley, (10[1]-5[2])but this was delayed by fights over the Kansas–Nebraska (10[1])Act. (10[1])The site of (10[1])present-day (-5[1])Tucson (10[1])was acquired (10[1])by (10[1])the US (10[2])in, for 10 (10[2])points, what 1854 (10[1])agreement, which bought a strip of land from Mexico? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: Gadsden Purchase [or Gadsden Treaty; accept Treaty of La Mesilla or La Venta de La Mesilla until “Mesilla” is read]
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Andrew MinagarYale BHarvard B63-5
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech AGeodesic6510
Kai MadgwickDurham AOxford A68-5
Freddy PottsSheffieldCambridge C69-5
James Stevenson (UG)Michigan AMichigan B73-5
Jake GreerHarvard ATufts B74-5
Conrad FreidsonWarwickImperial B8510
Eli IssoksonBrandeis ABrown A8610
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Jake MarkusDartmouth BBrandeis B87-5
Jake MarkusDartmouth BBrandeis B87-5
Aswath KaraiMichigan State AIowa B9610
Dwight SolanoTexas A&M BTexas A9710
Dean Ah NowClaremont AAppalachian State10010
Rahul KumarRice ASorbonne101-5
Navtej SinghMichigan BMichigan A10210
Lewys JenkinsBristolOxford B10410
Michael Eng (UG)UNC C (UG)Maryland B (UG)10510
William DawsonUBC AUW A10710
Nick PruittKCLOxford C10710
Mitchell IndekMichigan CCedarville11010
Noah Dean (DII)KenyonOhio State B11010
Harrison WhitakerCambridge AEdinburgh11310
Ben LaFondCambridge BImperial A12210
Cormac BeirneSorbonneRice A12310
Omer KeskinOxford ADurham A1230
Harrison SugarmanBrandeis BDartmouth B12310
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Peter ScullyTufts BHarvard A12310
Max NealHarvard BYale B12310