Territory of New Mexico

The Territoire of New Mexico ( New Mexico City Territory in English) became a Territoire organized of the the United States the September 9th 1850 and there existed until the New Mexico becomes the 47e American State the January 6th 1912.

The Western part of New Mexico came from the Traité from Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, while the oriental party (of the Río Grande to the current border with the Texas) had been added like consequence of the Compromis of 1850. The Achat Gadsden of 1853 added a small band to the Territory of New Mexico — the southern part of the current states of Arizona and New Mexico.

The territories included/understood in the territory of New Mexico of 1850 was the Western part of the future state, plus the major part of the Arizona (known like the County of Santa Anna), a small portion of the Colorado and the south (under the Northern 36°30') of the Nevada (Compromis of Missouri). The transfer of Texas and the Gadsden purchase increased the territory considerably but the creation of the Territoire of Colorado the February 28th 1861 and of the Territoire of Arizona the February 24th 1863 (western of the 109e Méridien) left New Mexico in its current borders.

Like road towards the California, New Mexico and Arizona were territory disputed during the American Civil War, the colonists of the band of Gadsden having massively joined the confederated States. The Battle of Glorieta Not, the “Gettysburg of the west”, gave the zone to the Union. The Territoire of Arizona confederated was the first American incarnation of the Arizona.

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