New Mexcio History Flashcards
Ironclad clauses are almost impossible to alter in the New Mexico State Constitution because a change would require:
Need 3/4 majority of the state and 2/3 majority of each county to change
What was NOT an issue when New Mexico became a state?
Population size
Why was New Mexico’s constitution considered “safe and sane”?
It was not politically radical.
This set into motion the processes for New Mexicans to create a suitable constitution:
The Enabling Act of 1910
What was Blackdom?
A town south of Roswell founded by African Americans
For how many years was New Mexico a territory before it obtained statehood?
64 years
What is the largest Native American Reservation in the United States today?
Navajo
Homesteaders had five years to “prove up.” What did this mean?
Improve working conditions, Improve wages and Improve housing
What role did New Mexicans play in the Civil War?
New Mexicans volunteered to fight in the war against the Confederates
New Mexico’s Building exhibit at the Panama-California
was built to model a church in Acoma, honored the culture of Native Americans and Hispanics, and received many prizes and honors.
What facility receives and stores radioactive waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons?
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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:
Spaceport America
What is considered New Mexico’s number-one problem?
Water shortage
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:
VLA
What was the main cause of the Santa Fe prison riot of 1980?
Overcrowded conditions
What was the nickname of Reies Lopez Tijerina?
King tiger
Who organized the UFW (United Farm Workers)?
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
What did the United Farm Workers organization do for migrant laborers?
Improve working conditions, Improve wages and Improve housing
Who discovered the uranium in Grants New Mexico?
Paddy Martinez
The discovery of this resource in 1950 led to a 30-year boom near the town of Grants, New Mexico:
Uranium
Why did the Pueblo Native Americans fight for ownership of Blue Lake?
It was an important place of worship for their tribe and helped to preserve their culture.
Where did La Alianza Federal de Mercedes use violent methods of protest?
Tierra Amarilla
What was the goal of La Alianza?
To reclaim lost land grants
Who was the leader of La Alianza de Federal Mercedes?
Reies Lopez Tijerina
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:
Hispanic farmers lose of their land grants?
During the Cold War Era, the state of NM saw federal funding increase to which areas:
Scientific Laboratories, Air bases and Weapons Testing
Which president signed the Blue Lake bill into law in 1970?
Richard Nixon
What did William “Mack” Brazel discover while mending fences near Roswell, New Mexico?
A strange crash site
The United States housed the entire Nuclear Arsenal here during the Cold War Era.
Manzano Base
What brought more people to New Mexico during the Cold War?
Job opportunities in the military, national labs, and mining industries
What was the goal of the American Punitive Expedition?
to capture and punish Pancho Villa
Who was the leader of the American Punitive Expedition?
John Pershing
What was the reason why Pancho Villa raided Columbus, NM?
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.
What was proposed in the Zimmerman Telegram?
Mexico would join the Central Powers and regain lost land in the American Southwest
What was the American Expeditionary Force?
the American soldiers who fought in World War I.I
Who was the leader of the American Expeditionary Force?
Dennis Chavez
What was the name of the military training camp that was located near Deming, NM?
Camp Cody
What was the pandemic that killed millions worldwide and thousands in New Mexico in 1918?
Spanish flu
Why were artists attracted to Taos in the 1920s?
beautiful scenery, diverse cultures of Northern New Mexico and number of cloudless days
Georgia O’Keeffe was famous for:
painting landscapes, flowers and animal skulls.
The Lungers suffered from:
people who suffered from tuberculosis
sanatoriums were hospitals for:
Tuberculosis
Route 66 was a road that linked:
Chicago and Los Angeles
What happened to Blue Lake in 1906?
It was made part of the Carson National Forest
Blue Lake is a holy place for what people?
Taos
Which of the following groups reorganized to fight the Bursum Bill?
All Pueblo council
Which of these New Mexico locations had an internment camp during WWII?
Santa Fe
Which country was responsible for forcing allied soldiers to march during the Bataan Death March?
Japan
Robert Oppenheimer was the _____?
Lead scientist for the Manhattan Project
General Leslie Groves was the _____?
Lead military contact for the Manhattan Project
How did the Navajos code their language so that even native speakers would not understand their code?
They used names of everyday things from the reservation to represent military terms
Where did the first atomic bomb test take place?
Trinity site
The purpose of the Bracero Program was to recruit
Laborers from Mexico
Who wrote/signed a letter to President Roosevelt warning him that Germany was trying to develop an atomic bomb?
Albert Einstein
How many New Mexican Soldiers were part of the Bataan Death March and what percentage survived the march?
1800 and 50%
What radioactive materials were used in producing the atomic bombs?
Uranium and Plutonium
An internment camp is?
a camp where Japanese Americans were forced to live
The Navajo Code Talkers were
Navajo Native Americans who coded their own language to help the U.S. win WWII
The Mother Road, the Main Street of America, and the Neon Road are all nicknames for what?
Route 66
What law would have given title of much of the Pueblo land to non-native Americans who had long occupied property on Pueblo borders?
Bursum bill
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?
CCC
In 1948 Miguel Trujillo won the right for Native Americans to
Vote in elections
What part of New Mexico was affected by the Dust Bowl?
Great Plains
Almost every community in New Mexico benefited from this New Deal program which hired New Mexico workers and built public facilities:
They had to farm successfully on the land.
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?
WPA
