Editing Santa Fe de Nuevo México (section)

===American territory===
{{Main|History of New Mexico}}
{{See also|Territorial evolution of New Mexico}}
The United States inherited the unenforced claim to the east bank with the [[Texas Annexation]] in 1845. The U.S. Army under [[Stephen Kearny]] occupied the territory in 1846 during the [[Mexican–American War]], a [[U.S. provisional government of New Mexico|provisional government]] was established, and Mexico recognized its loss to the United States in 1848 with the [[Mexican Cession]] in the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]].

Texas continued to claim the eastern part, but never succeeded in establishing control except in [[El Paso]]. However, in the [[Compromise of 1850]] Texas accepted $10 million in exchange for its claim to areas within and north of the present boundaries of New Mexico and the Texas panhandle.<ref>Griffin, Roger A. [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nbc02 "Compromise of 1850"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119074220/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nbc02 |date=2012-11-19 }}. ''[[Handbook of Texas Online]]''. [[Texas State Historical Association]]. Retrieved June 7, 2012.</ref>

Presidents [[Zachary Taylor]] and [[Abraham Lincoln]] both proposed that New Mexico immediately become a state to sidestep political conflict over slavery in the territories. The already established rule of law which had passed from New Spain and Mexico within New Mexico already outlawed slavery, as was the legal precedent with [[genízaro]]s.<ref>[[Sentimientos de la Nación]], [[Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America]], and [[Constitution of Apatzingán]]</ref>

New Mexico became an official [[U.S. state]] in 1912.