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New Mexcio History Flashcards

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

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

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

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Population size

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

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It was not politically radical.

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

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The Enabling Act of 1910

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What was Blackdom?

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A town south of Roswell founded by African Americans

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

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64 years

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

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Navajo

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

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Improve working conditions, Improve wages and Improve housing

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What role did New Mexicans play in the Civil War?

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New Mexicans volunteered to fight in the war against the Confederates

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New Mexico’s Building exhibit at the Panama-California

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

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

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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

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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:

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Spaceport America

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12
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What is considered New Mexico’s number-one problem?

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Water shortage

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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:

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VLA

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

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Overcrowded conditions

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What was the nickname of Reies Lopez Tijerina?

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King tiger

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16
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Who organized the UFW (United Farm Workers)?

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Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

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

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Improve working conditions, Improve wages and Improve housing

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18
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Who discovered the uranium in Grants New Mexico?

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Paddy Martinez

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

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Uranium

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

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

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

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Tierra Amarilla

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What was the goal of La Alianza?

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To reclaim lost land grants

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Who was the leader of La Alianza de Federal Mercedes?

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Reies Lopez Tijerina

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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:

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Hispanic farmers lose of their land grants?

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25
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During the Cold War Era, the state of NM saw federal funding increase to which areas:

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Scientific Laboratories, Air bases and Weapons Testing

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26
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Which president signed the Blue Lake bill into law in 1970?

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Richard Nixon

27
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What did William “Mack” Brazel discover while mending fences near Roswell, New Mexico?

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A strange crash site

28
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The United States housed the entire Nuclear Arsenal here during the Cold War Era.

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Manzano Base

29
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What brought more people to New Mexico during the Cold War?

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

30
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What was the goal of the American Punitive Expedition?

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to capture and punish Pancho Villa

31
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Who was the leader of the American Punitive Expedition?

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John Pershing

32
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What was the reason why Pancho Villa raided Columbus, NM?

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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.

33
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What was proposed in the Zimmerman Telegram?

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

34
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What was the American Expeditionary Force?

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the American soldiers who fought in World War I.I

35
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Who was the leader of the American Expeditionary Force?

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Dennis Chavez

36
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What was the name of the military training camp that was located near Deming, NM?

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Camp Cody

37
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What was the pandemic that killed millions worldwide and thousands in New Mexico in 1918?

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Spanish flu

38
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Why were artists attracted to Taos in the 1920s?

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

39
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Georgia O’Keeffe was famous for:

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painting landscapes, flowers and animal skulls.

40
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The Lungers suffered from:

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people who suffered from tuberculosis

41
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sanatoriums were hospitals for:

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Tuberculosis

42
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Route 66 was a road that linked:

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Chicago and Los Angeles

43
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What happened to Blue Lake in 1906?

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It was made part of the Carson National Forest

44
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Blue Lake is a holy place for what people?

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Taos

45
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Which of the following groups reorganized to fight the Bursum Bill?

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All Pueblo council

46
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Which of these New Mexico locations had an internment camp during WWII?

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Santa Fe

47
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Which country was responsible for forcing allied soldiers to march during the Bataan Death March?

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Japan

48
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Robert Oppenheimer was the _____?

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Lead scientist for the Manhattan Project

49
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General Leslie Groves was the _____?

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Lead military contact for the Manhattan Project

50
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How did the Navajos code their language so that even native speakers would not understand their code?

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

51
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Where did the first atomic bomb test take place?

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Trinity site

52
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The purpose of the Bracero Program was to recruit

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Laborers from Mexico

53
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Who wrote/signed a letter to President Roosevelt warning him that Germany was trying to develop an atomic bomb?

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Albert Einstein

54
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How many New Mexican Soldiers were part of the Bataan Death March and what percentage survived the march?

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1800 and 50%

55
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What radioactive materials were used in producing the atomic bombs?

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Uranium and Plutonium

56
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An internment camp is?

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a camp where Japanese Americans were forced to live

57
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The Navajo Code Talkers were

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

58
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The Mother Road, the Main Street of America, and the Neon Road are all nicknames for what?

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Route 66

59
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What law would have given title of much of the Pueblo land to non-native Americans who had long occupied property on Pueblo borders?

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Bursum bill

60
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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?

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CCC

61
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In 1948 Miguel Trujillo won the right for Native Americans to

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Vote in elections

62
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What part of New Mexico was affected by the Dust Bowl?

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Great Plains

63
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Almost every community in New Mexico benefited from this New Deal program which hired New Mexico workers and built public facilities:

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They had to farm successfully on the land.

64
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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?

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WPA

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