New Mexico History Statehood #4 Already Passed

New Mexico History Statehood #4 Already Passed Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) treaty signed by the U.S. and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican-American War; Mexico had to give up much of its northern territory to the U.S (Mexican Cession); in exchange the U.S. gave Mexico $15 million and said that Mexicans living in the lands of the Mexican Cession would be protected Compromise of 1850 (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas Gadsden Purchase Agreement w/ Mexico that gave the US parts of present-day New Mexico & Arizona in exchange for $10 million; all but completed the continental expansion envisioned by those who believed in Manifest Destiny. Mexican-American War () The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory. Navajo Long Walk Penin300 mile march, Navajo forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in New Mexico Peninsularies European-born elite in Latin America Criollos Spaniards born in the New World Manifest Destiny A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. ,m cede give or hand over land Slave codes laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people reservation Federal land set aside for Native Americans Assimilate to absorb fully; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully Buffalo Soldiers Name given to African American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army on the western frontier and fought in the Indian Wars (). Geronimo Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation () Indian Scouts - Recruited from different Indian nations - Willing to fight alongside US army and against their traditional enemies (e.g. Crow Indians happy to fight against Sioux Indians). - Invaluable knowledge of country and Indian tactics Fort Sumner 1861 Where the Apache