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How is US get New Mexico?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Through the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) most of New Mexico was taken from Mexico. Later, during the Gadsden Purchase (1853) Mexico sold the southern part of New Mexico.

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