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migration routes such as El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and the Santa Fe Trail. Nuevo México became a territory of Mexico after Mexican independence from Spain in 1821. It was ceded to the United States in 1848 following the Mexican-American War, and in 1851 Santa Fe was named the capital of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico;

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