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The Mexican-American War was the first U.S. war that wasn't on U.S. Soil and when it was over the U.S. got New Mexico, California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada.
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The Mexican- American War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which was a peace treaty.
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New Mexico becomes a territory of the U.S. because of the Compromise of 1850.
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As the Civil War begins Confederate troops occupy southern New Mexico.
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Kit Carson defeats the Navajos and then they were forced to walk to Bosque Redondo.
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The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad company is the first railroad company to come into New Mexico.
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The Lincoln County War started over the control of dry goods and the killing of John Tunstall and was just revenge killing back and fourth. Finally ending when Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid.
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New Mexicans prove their loyalty to the United States by serving in the Spanish- American War as a cavalry unit known as the Rough Riders.
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Arizona voters decline a plan to enter the Union as a single state with New Mexico.
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January 6, 1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
