The US claimed what became the New Mexico territory during the Mexican-American War. It was primarily a linear western extension from Texas.
Because New Mexico had U.S. people and towns in it
the Mexican-American war
The Treay of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave to the US the states Arizona , New Mexico , Utah , Nevada and Colorado . Mexico also no longer lay claim to Texas .
As far as I know, no president were born/lived in New Mexico.
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Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny led an army of 1,700 soldiers into Santa Fe to claim it and the New Mexico Territory for the United States. The Mexican military forces in New Mexico retreated to Mexico without fighting and Kearny's forces easily took control of New Mexico.
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The US needed a place to test the bomb, and the desert in New Mexico was the best place.
New mexico
New Mexico (1945)
The state of New Mexico.
The whole states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, as well as parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas.