The Gadsden Purchase (1853)
The Gadsden Purchase (1853)
The boundaries of the New Mexico Territory in 1850 contained most of the present-day State of New Mexico, more than half of the present-day State of Arizona, and portions of the present-day states of Colorado and Nevada.
New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas.
It was known as the Gadsden Purchase (1853), and it included present-day New Mexico and Arizona, south of the Gila River.
It covered the vast area that is Today New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada and parts of Colorado An Utah
Actually, a victim of it. Mexico lost half its territory (California, Arizona, Texas and other present-day U.S. states) due to this cause.
New Mexico territory
The land area known as Arizona today was once a part of the Territory of New Mexico, became a part of the Confederate States of America as the Confederate Territory of Arizona and later became Arizona Territory with a new dividing border with New Mexico. Arizona became a US State on 14 February 1912.
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Every other state that is not California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma or Kansas.
On January 18th of 1862, the Confederacy lay claims to a disputed area in southern New Mexico. They renamed it the Territory of Arizona.
A large territory that was formerly part of Mexico became the states of Arizona and New Mexico. They joined the Union in 1912.