New Mexcio History

Question 1

Ironclad clauses are almost impossible to alter in the New Mexico State Constitution because a change would require:

Answer 1

Need 3/4 majority of the state and 2/3 majority of each county to change

Question 1

What was NOT an issue when New Mexico became a state?

Answer 1

Population size

Question 2

Why was New Mexico’s constitution considered “safe and sane”?

Answer 2

It was not politically radical.

Question 3

This set into motion the processes for New Mexicans to create a suitable constitution:

Answer 3

The Enabling Act of 1910

Question 4

What was Blackdom?

Answer 4

A town south of Roswell founded by African Americans

Question 5

For how many years was New Mexico a territory before it obtained statehood?

Answer 5

64 years

Question 6

What is the largest Native American Reservation in the United States today?

Answer 6

Navajo

Question 7

Homesteaders had five years to “prove up.” What did this mean?

Answer 7

Improve working conditions, Improve wages and Improve housing

Question 8

What role did New Mexicans play in the Civil War?

Answer 8

New Mexicans volunteered to fight in the war against the Confederates

Question 9

New Mexico’s Building exhibit at the Panama-California

Answer 9

was built to model a church in Acoma, honored the culture of Native Americans and Hispanics, and received many prizes and honors.

Question 10

What facility receives and stores radioactive waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons?

Answer 10

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Question 11

In 2005, New Mexico reached an agreement with Virgin Atlantic, a multinational company to build this facility on a 27-square-mile site near Las Cruces:

Answer 11

Spaceport America

Question 12

What is considered New Mexico’s number-one problem?

Answer 12

Water shortage

Question 13

This is the world’s premier astronomical radio observatory consisting where scientists investigate just about every aspect of the universe from the creation of galaxies to the birth of stars:

Answer 13

VLA

Question 14

What was the main cause of the Santa Fe prison riot of 1980?

Answer 14

Overcrowded conditions

Question 15

What was the nickname of Reies Lopez Tijerina?

Answer 15

King tiger

Question 16

Who organized the UFW (United Farm Workers)?

Answer 16

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

Question 17

What did the United Farm Workers organization do for migrant laborers?

Answer 17

Improve working conditions, Improve wages and Improve housing

Question 18

Who discovered the uranium in Grants New Mexico?

Answer 18

Paddy Martinez

Question 19

The discovery of this resource in 1950 led to a 30-year boom near the town of Grants, New Mexico:

Answer 19

Uranium

Question 20

Why did the Pueblo Native Americans fight for ownership of Blue Lake?

Answer 20

It was an important place of worship for their tribe and helped to preserve their culture.

Question 21

Where did La Alianza Federal de Mercedes use violent methods of protest?

Answer 21

Tierra Amarilla

Question 22

What was the goal of La Alianza?

Answer 22

To reclaim lost land grants

Question 23

Who was the leader of La Alianza de Federal Mercedes?

Answer 23

Reies Lopez Tijerina

Question 24

Poorer families often sold their land for seemingly good prices, Families were often unable to pay lawyers’ fees, so they paid with the land they owned, and Many land grant documents were lost or damaged. this resulted in:

Answer 24

Hispanic farmers lose of their land grants?

Question 25

During the Cold War Era, the state of NM saw federal funding increase to which areas:

Answer 25

Scientific Laboratories, Air bases and Weapons Testing

Question 26

Which president signed the Blue Lake bill into law in 1970?

Answer 26

Richard Nixon

Question 27

What did William “Mack” Brazel discover while mending fences near Roswell, New Mexico?

Answer 27

A strange crash site

Question 28

The United States housed the entire Nuclear Arsenal here during the Cold War Era.

Answer 28

Manzano Base

Question 29

What brought more people to New Mexico during the Cold War?

Answer 29

Job opportunities in the military, national labs, and mining industries

Question 30

What was the goal of the American Punitive Expedition?

Answer 30

to capture and punish Pancho Villa

Question 31

Who was the leader of the American Punitive Expedition?

Answer 31

John Pershing

Question 32

What was the reason why Pancho Villa raided Columbus, NM?

Answer 32

He was angry at the United States for aiding his revolutionary enemies and To get revenge on a local merchant for a bad arms deal.

Question 33

What was proposed in the Zimmerman Telegram?

Answer 33

Mexico would join the Central Powers and regain lost land in the American Southwest

Question 34

What was the American Expeditionary Force?

Answer 34

the American soldiers who fought in World War I.I

Question 35

Who was the leader of the American Expeditionary Force?

Answer 35

Dennis Chavez

Question 36

What was the name of the military training camp that was located near Deming, NM?

Answer 36

Camp Cody

Question 37

What was the pandemic that killed millions worldwide and thousands in New Mexico in 1918?

Answer 37

Spanish flu

Question 38

Why were artists attracted to Taos in the 1920s?

Answer 38

beautiful scenery, diverse cultures of Northern New Mexico and number of cloudless days

Question 39

Georgia O'Keeffe was famous for:

Answer 39

painting landscapes, flowers and animal skulls.

Question 40

The Lungers suffered from:

Answer 40

people who suffered from tuberculosis

Question 41

sanatoriums were hospitals for:

Answer 41

Tuberculosis

Question 42

Route 66 was a road that linked:

Answer 42

Chicago and Los Angeles

Question 43

What happened to Blue Lake in 1906?

Answer 43

It was made part of the Carson National Forest

Question 44

Blue Lake is a holy place for what people?

Answer 44

Taos

Question 45

Which of the following groups reorganized to fight the Bursum Bill?

Answer 45

All Pueblo council

Question 46

Which of these New Mexico locations had an internment camp during WWII?

Answer 46

Santa Fe

Question 47

Which country was responsible for forcing allied soldiers to march during the Bataan Death March?

Answer 47

Japan

Question 48

Robert Oppenheimer was the _____?

Answer 48

Lead scientist for the Manhattan Project

Question 49

General Leslie Groves was the _____?

Answer 49

Lead military contact for the Manhattan Project

Question 50

How did the Navajos code their language so that even native speakers would not understand their code?

Answer 50

They used names of everyday things from the reservation to represent military terms

Question 51

Where did the first atomic bomb test take place?

Answer 51

Trinity site

Question 52

The purpose of the Bracero Program was to recruit

Answer 52

Laborers from Mexico

Question 53

Who wrote/signed a letter to President Roosevelt warning him that Germany was trying to develop an atomic bomb?

Answer 53

Albert Einstein

Question 54

How many New Mexican Soldiers were part of the Bataan Death March and what percentage survived the march?

Answer 54

1800 and 50%

Question 55

What radioactive materials were used in producing the atomic bombs?

Answer 55

Uranium and Plutonium

Question 56

An internment camp is?

Answer 56

a camp where Japanese Americans were forced to live

Question 57

The Navajo Code Talkers were

Answer 57

Navajo Native Americans who coded their own language to help the U.S. win WWII

Question 58

The Mother Road, the Main Street of America, and the Neon Road are all nicknames for what?

Answer 58

Route 66

Question 59

What law would have given title of much of the Pueblo land to non-native Americans who had long occupied property on Pueblo borders?

Answer 59

Bursum bill

Question 60

Who traveled to Washington D.C. from New Mexico more than 23 times to meet with federal government officials and secure New Deal funding for important public projects in New Mexico?

Answer 60

CCC

Question 61

In 1948 Miguel Trujillo won the right for Native Americans to

Answer 61

Vote in elections

Question 62

What part of New Mexico was affected by the Dust Bowl?

Answer 62

Great Plains

Question 63

Almost every community in New Mexico benefited from this New Deal program which hired New Mexico workers and built public facilities:

Answer 63

They had to farm successfully on the land.

Question 64

What New Deal program was created to provide employment opportunities for young men ages 18-28 who did not have an education and were suffering during the Great Depression?

Answer 64

WPA