New Mexico Territory of New Mexico for a half-century until admitted to the Union in 1912 as the 47th state (followed just under six weeks later by the Arizona Territory/State of Arizona, which became the 48th state, finally filling out the coast-to-coast continental expanse of the United States). As the route to California, New Mexico Territory was disputed territory during the American Civil War. Settlers in the southern part of the Territory willingly joined the Confederate States in 1861 as the newly organized Confederate Territory of Arizona, with a representative delegate to the Confederate Congress in the capital of Richmond. This territory consisted
Referendums related to the European Union Union. Austria, Sweden, and Finland were admitted as members of the EU, acceding on 1 January 1995. Two countries held referendums on the ratification of the treaty of Amsterdam. The 2004 enlargement of the European Union involved ten candidate states, eight from Central and Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Cyprus. In 2003, referendums on joining the EU were held in all these nations except Cyprus. Since the results were in favourable in all cases, all ten candidate countries were admitted as members of the EU, acceding on 1 May 2004. Denmark and the United Kingdom received