Dates
When did the Mexican American war start?
1848 April 25
American frontier outlaw, gunfighter of the Old West, and part of the regulators
Billy the Kid
New Mexico’s largest city
Albuquerque
Finally officially admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state on January 6.
Statehood
One of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States.
Taos Pueblo
When did the Lincoln County War happen?
1878 February 20
First american senators for New Mexico
Thomas B. Catron and Albert B. Fall
The oldest state capital in the United States
Santa Fe
Ended the Mexican-American War and placed New Mexico under U.S. territorial control.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Sitting at 7,199 feet above sea level, making it the highest state capital in the United States.
Santa Fe
When was the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
1848 February 2
Served as the 15th governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1897 to 1906, steering the region through the turn of the 20th century
Miguel Antonio Otero II
Famous worldwide for the UFO incident of 1947
Roswell
The U.S. government detonated the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in White Sands on July 16.
The Trinity Test
what was the original name of new mexico
Nuevo mexico
When did New Mexico become a state?
1912 January 6
President who signed off on NM being a state
William Howard Taft
The world's largest gypsum dunefield, covering 275 square miles of the Tularosa Basin
White Sands
Pueblo Indians led a successful uprising against Spanish colonizers, temporarily driving them out of the region.
Pueblo Revolt
what famous author lives in New Mexico
Gorge R.R martin
When did Mexico break away from Spain?
1821 August 24
The man who caught and killed Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Situated in the Basin and Range Province of south-central New Mexico, Famous as the late-1870s conflict between rival economic factions and ranchers, drawing in outlaws and lawmen.
Lincoln County
U.S. forces under General Stephen W. Kearny capture territory during the Mexican-American War, placing the region under U.S. control.
what is the population of the smallest town in New Mexio
22 people