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United States invades and captures New Mexico in Mexican-American War.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjBluPhuqvRAhXGj1QKHZdiCi8QFggtMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mymexicanwar.com%2Fbattles%2F460808-santa-fe.html&usg=AFQjCNFCksR0YXUXeMuYqANOEToe8k_qCQ
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Mexican-American War ends with the signing of this treaty.
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Due to the Compromise of 1850, New Mexico becomes a United States Territory.
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Southern soldiers occupy Southern New Mexico.
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Confederate troops from Texas march into Norther New Mexico, fights Yankee soldiers at Glorieta Pass and are forced to retreat back to Texas.
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Kit Carson hired by the United States government to expel the indians out of the United States Territory.
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Apaches held at Bosque Redondo escape their captors, some being slave traders, and flee down south back to their homeland.
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John Tunstall is killed, which starts the Lincoln County War, cattle and dry good interests are behind the motivation. Billy the Kid is said to have some participation in this war.
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New Mexicans prove their loyalty to the United States by fighting on their side and contribute the best cavalry units known as the rough riders.
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New Mexico enters statehood as the 47th state after a long journey and opposition as a single state with Arizona. Also known as the greatest state in the Union, even better than Dixieland.
