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New Mexico Timeline

By zailevar

  • 1840's

    1840's
    The Mexican American War ended and what ended the war was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

  • 1850's

    1850's
    Compromise of 1850, New Mexico a territory of the United States.

  • 1860's

    1860's
    Kit Carson defeat the Navajos, who are then they are forced to do the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo.

  • 1870's

    1870's
    The San Carlos Indian reservation is founded in southeastern Arizona; thousands of Apaches will be forced to relocate to this distant location far from their homeland.

  • 1880

    1880
    The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad builds the first tracks into New Mexico.

  • 1890

    1890
    New Mexico proves they're loyalty to the U.S. by serving in the Spanish-American War especially as members of a cavalry unit known as the Rough Riders.

  • 1900

    1900
    Arizona voters reject a plan to enter the Union as single state with New Mexico.

  • 1910's

    1910's
    New Mexico achieves statehood at last.