A report on New Mexico Territory
Organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912.
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New Mexico
11 linksState in the Southwestern United States.
State in the Southwestern United States.
At the conclusion of the Mexican–American War in 1848, the U.S. annexed New Mexico as part of the larger New Mexico Territory.
Colorado
6 linksState in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
State in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Instead, the Compromise of 1850 divided the Mexican Cession and the northwestern claims of Texas into a new state and two new territories, the state of California, the Territory of New Mexico, and the Territory of Utah.
Arizona
6 linksLandlocked state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions.
Landlocked state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions.
What is now known as the state of Arizona was initially administered by the United States government as part of the Territory of New Mexico until the southern part of that region seceded from the Union to form the Territory of Arizona.
Mexican–American War
7 linksArmed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
Armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
Kearny declared himself the military governor of the New Mexico Territory on August 18 and established a civilian government.
Santa Fe de Nuevo México
5 linksKingdom of the Spanish Empire and New Spain, and later a territory of independent Mexico.
Kingdom of the Spanish Empire and New Spain, and later a territory of independent Mexico.
The name of "New Mexico", the capital in Santa Fe, the gubernatorial office at the Palace of the Governors, vecino citizen-soldiers, and rule of law were retained as the New Mexico Territory and later state of New Mexico became part of the United States.
Compromise of 1850
4 linksPackage of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
Package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
California was admitted as a free state, while the remaining portions of the Mexican Cession were organized into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory.
Arizona Territory
5 linksTerritory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.
Territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.
It was created from the western half of the New Mexico Territory during the American Civil War.
Confederate Arizona
6 linksOrganized incorporated territory of the Confederate States that existed from August 1, 1861 to May 26, 1865, when the Confederate States Army Trans-Mississippi Department, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, was surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana.
Organized incorporated territory of the Confederate States that existed from August 1, 1861 to May 26, 1865, when the Confederate States Army Trans-Mississippi Department, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, was surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana.
Delegates to the secession convention had voted in March 1861 to secede from the New Mexico Territory and the Union, and seek to join the Confederacy.
Utah Territory
4 linksOrganized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.
Organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.
The territory was organized by an Organic Act of Congress in 1850, on the same day that the State of California was admitted to the Union and the New Mexico Territory was added for the southern portion of the former Mexican land.
Colorado Territory
5 linksOrganized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado.
Organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado.
East of the Continental Divide, the new territory included the western portion of the Kansas Territory, as well as some of the southwestern Nebraska Territory, and a small parcel of the northeastern New Mexico Territory.