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#nmhist NM seemed incapable of self-government, even after several attempts at creating a statewide constitution. It's residents could simply not agree.

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#nmhist the 3 requirements of statehood were a min. population of about 60,000, a state constitutional convention, and approval from both houses of congress.

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#nmhist NM had tp prove its loyalty to the union before it could become a state. This took 64 years

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@haleyc1232 This created an influx of so many things! Economic boom! But also forced so many natives out of their homes

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@KaiAragon2 But still expected its inhabitants tp serve for them!

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@AverySuina Him and many others unfortunately, and it led to horrible treatment

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@haleyc1232 He also manipulated land out of others by taking it in order to "represent" them in court

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@haleyc1232 I bet they were lucrative, the railroads probably brought him a ton of business

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#nmhist in Lincoln County, John H Tunstall and Alexander A McSweeney's were the opposers of the ring. Tunstall was killed in February of 1878, and violence followed.

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#nmhist several were vocal about their opposition toward the ring, Franklin J Tolby one of them. He was murdered 9/14/1875, beginning what would be the Colfax County war

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#nmhist the Santa Fe Ring was "a body that advanced 'individual interests at the expense of the general welfare'"

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By 1868, the Diné were returned to their homeland to rebuild a sense of tribal identity #nmhist

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#nmhist the long walk was only one of many treks that natives were forced to take, several of which very few survived.

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In the late 1850s, natives were being foeced onto reservations in hopes of taking their culture with them #nmhist

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#nmhist "...the ways that the American conquest of North America destroyed native peoples and cultures."

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#nmhist NM, in the eyes of D.C. lacked modernization and Americanization into the late 19th, early 20th cemtury

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#nmhist 350 rough riders were from New Mexico! More than any other territory or state

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#nmhist 1850 was the first denial of statehood for NM

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@DLady379 It makes sense, seeing that they had been betrayed repeatedly in the past by colonizers.

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@spadilla144 It is up to debate, I'd say, whether they willingly converted or had no other choice