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 construction project (10[1])across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (“teh-wan-TEH-pek”). This agreement’s South Carolinian namesake intended for it to allow a transcontinental railroad through the Mesilla (“meh-SEE-yah”) valley, but this was delayed by fights over the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The site of present-day Tucson was acquired by the US in, for 10 points, what 1854 agreement, which bought a strip of land from Mexico? ■END■