Essay On New Mexico Statehood
The encounter, exchange, and exploration of statehood was huge in the US in the early 1900’s. That is why we have all of the states together. In the late 1890’s and early 1900’s the exploration of the New World was already pretty much over, the next step was to complete a country in the land that had been found. The solution was a country named the United States of America (USA). New Mexico was an amazing encounter into the United States and was a change and growth for everything and everyone.
Encounter; the encounter of New Mexico was a huge shift in the US. It allowed for railroad building, new settlement land, and more jobs in the territory. There was a very high demand for a good place to work and a new place to settle and recover. One of the huge advantages of New Mexico was it was a very dry and warm climate which allowed for health recovery and aid in breathing sicknesses such as TB, a widely spread disease before New Mexico became a state. In the early development of New Mexico as a state, people were really wanting to live …show more content…
New Mexico’s constitution was first thought to be enacted 1911, but it couldn’t have been because President Taft hadn’t come to sign it yet. However in 1912, President Taft was there, and he wanted New Mexico as an official state, so the constitution was done, it gave all the great rights that America has to its people. The constitution has 208 digitized pages and over 20 articles. The main bulk of the constitution is citizen rights, one of the hugest, most important part of our Bill of Rights is Right of Self-government, which states, “The people of the state have the sole and exclusive right to govern themselves as a free, sovereign and independent state.” article 2, section 3 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW
Encounter; the encounter of New Mexico was a huge shift in the US. It allowed for railroad building, new settlement land, and more jobs in the territory. There was a very high demand for a good place to work and a new place to settle and recover. One of the huge advantages of New Mexico was it was a very dry and warm climate which allowed for health recovery and aid in breathing sicknesses such as TB, a widely spread disease before New Mexico became a state. In the early development of New Mexico as a state, people were really wanting to live …show more content…
New Mexico’s constitution was first thought to be enacted 1911, but it couldn’t have been because President Taft hadn’t come to sign it yet. However in 1912, President Taft was there, and he wanted New Mexico as an official state, so the constitution was done, it gave all the great rights that America has to its people. The constitution has 208 digitized pages and over 20 articles. The main bulk of the constitution is citizen rights, one of the hugest, most important part of our Bill of Rights is Right of Self-government, which states, “The people of the state have the sole and exclusive right to govern themselves as a free, sovereign and independent state.” article 2, section 3 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW