Question: new mexico was admitted to the union as the . . . state
[{'answer': '47th', 'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '21649', 'title': 'New Mexico', 'start_paragraph_id': 3, 'start_character': 999, 'end_paragraph_id': 3, 'end_character': 1003, 'bleu_score': 1.0, 'section': 'Section::::Abstract.'}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '21649', 'title': 'New Mexico', 'section': 'Section::::History.:1848 cession of land.\n', 'start_paragraph_id': 58, 'end_paragraph_id': 58, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ['Congress admitted New Mexico as the 47th state in the Union on January 6, 1912.', 'll-organized and growing". Anglo-Americans made distinctions between the wealthy Mexicans and poor, ill-educated lab']}}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '39078396', 'title': '1911 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico', 'section': 'Section::::Background.\n', 'start_paragraph_id': 3, 'end_paragraph_id': 3, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ['New Mexico joined the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912.', "New Mexico's first election to the United States House of Representatives was held on November 7, 1911 for two Representatives elected at-large for the 62nd Congress New Mexico joined the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912. It had been a territory since 1850, originally including Arizona and a portion of Nevada until 1863. New Mexico Territory and Arizona Territory had long sought statehood, and during the debates over admitting Oklahoma, and early version of the Oklahoma Enabling Act included a clause providing for New Mexico Territory and Arizona Territory to be admitted as a single state, but this was later removed. New Mexico was finally admitted as a state during the 62nd Congress, with 2 Representatives, which was subsequently reduced to 1 in the Apportionment Act of 1911, passed prior to New Mexico statehood."]}}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '440641', 'title': 'New Mexico Territory', 'section': 'Section::::Territorial evolution.\n', 'start_paragraph_id': 15, 'end_paragraph_id': 15, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ['This Act left the New Mexico Territory with boundaries identical to the eventual State of New Mexico for a half-century until admitted to the Union in 1912 as the 47th state', 'The creation of the Union Arizona Territory (two years after the ill-fated Confederate Arizona Territory) by the "Arizona Organic Act" on February 24, 1863, removed all the land west of the 109th meridian from the New Mexico Territory, i.e. the entire present-day State of Arizona plus the land that would become the southern part of the State of Nevada in 1864. This Act left the New Mexico Territory with boundaries identical to the eventual State 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).']}}]}, {'provenance': [{'wikipedia_id': '21649', 'title': 'New Mexico', 'section': 'Section::::Abstract.', 'start_paragraph_id': 3, 'end_paragraph_id': 3, 'meta': {'evidence_span': ['It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912.', 'Inhabited by Native Americans for many thousands of years before European exploration, it was colonized by the Spanish in 1598 as part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. In 1563, it was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico; thus, the present-day state of New Mexico was "not" named after the country today known as Mexico. After Mexican independence in 1824, New Mexico became a Mexican territory with considerable autonomy. This autonomy was threatened, however, by the centralizing tendencies of the Mexican government from the 1830s onward, with rising tensions eventually leading to the Revolt of 1837. At the same time, the region became more economically dependent on the United States. At the conclusion of the MexicanAmerican War in 1848, the United States annexed New Mexico as the U.S. New Mexico Territory. It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912.']}}]}]