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The US Army invades and captures the NM Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
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As part of the Compromise of 1850, NM becomes a territory of the IMUS
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The Civil War begins; Confederate troops occupy southern NM
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John Tunstall is killed, starting the Lincoln County War.
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Atchison, Topeka, and Samta Fe railroad builds the first tracks in NM.
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New Mexicans prove their loyalty to the US by serving heroically in the Spanish-American War, especially as members of a cavalry unit known as the Rough Riders
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AZ voters reject a plan to enter the Union as a single state with NM
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NM achieves statehood at last.
