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NEW MEXICO HISTORY FINAL Flashcards

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US citizen from prominent family who fought for Pancho Villa before being executed by mexican forces

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Thomas Fountain

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conflict lasted nearly a decade; Diaz, Carranza, Obregon, and Villa all participated in it

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Mexican Revolution

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female agricultural workers who labored in place of the men during WW1

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women’s land army

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dictator overthrown by his own people

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Porfirio Diaz

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1st hispanic to receive Distinguished Service Cross for bravery

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Marcelino Serna

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manhunt involving nearly 10,000 soldiers, 1st organized military endeavor in which the US used motorized vehicles and airplanes

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Punitive Expedition

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means people at home could eat what they made and soldiers got more food on the front lines

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victory gardens

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means by which the US government used to raise revenue for the war. NM bought nearly twice as much than the government asked

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Liberty Bonds

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message intercepted in 1917 revealing german plans of Mexican invasion of US= US entering the war

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Zimmerman Telegram

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regarded as a hero, Mexican commander who ordered an attack on Columbus NM in the spring of 1916

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Pancho Villa

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group of250 public speakers sent to spread updated news of the war

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Five minute men

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WW1 training camp in Kansas that prepared many NMs, also WW1 training camp on the outskirts of NM campus

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Camp funston

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navajo woman who survived the Spanish flu when it hit the Fort Defiance Indian school and dedicated her life to healthcare

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Annie Dodge Wauneka

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Washington E Lindsa

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NM’s governor during WW1

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NM senator who who tried to protect his Mexican business interests by encouraging US to intervene against Pancho Villa

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Albert b. Fall

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pre-printed postcards given to soldiers on the front lines that would allow them to send letters home w/o giving away info on war

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Field cards

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SPX graduate and the 1st commander of the USS New Mexico, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine

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Robert dain

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the promise P. Woodrow Wilson secured form Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania that ensured an end to attacks on American citizens and kept us out of the way

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Sussex Pledge

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training camp for the 34th Sandstorm Division during WW1, located near Deming

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Camp Cody

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US commander in charge of both the American Punitive Expedition and the American Expeditionary Force

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Gen. John J. Pershing

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The formal resolution of the Mexican-American War that transferred political control of NM to the United States

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Treaty of guadalupe Hidalgo

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NM’s resistment to US occupation comes to a head on February 3, 1947 when Col. Price’s troops reach Taos and back NMs & Native Americans into the Taos church, San Geronimo that has thick adobe walls. They make their last stand there when the US forces bring out cannons to breach the wall. Between 150 to 200 NMs were killed, & the rest surrendered

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Taos Revolt

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a group of corrupt lawyers & politicians who controlled New Mexico politics during its territorial period

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santa fe ring

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NM congressional delegate who jeopardized our bid at statehood during the 1870s with a poorly-considered public gesture

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stephen b. elkins

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territorial governor appointed during the Mexican-American War & scalped in his home at the beginning of the Revolt of 1847

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charles bent

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a famous late 19th century feud between two factions in southern NM, made Billy the Kid a household name, murders between businesses sparked by John Tunstall’s death

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Lincoln County War

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his death in 1909 cemented in many Americans’ minds the fact that the Indian Wars of the West were a thing of the past

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geronimo

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infamous symbol of the violence, criminality, & lawlessness of the NM territory during the late 19th century

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billy the kid bonney

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legendary explorer, trader, & military commander who was charged with carrying out the forced removal of the Navajo

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kit carson

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the foremost opponent of New Mexico statehood in Congress during the first decade of the 20th century

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albert bevridge

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protected Hispanic access to the ability to vote and to integrated education

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ironclad causes

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meeting held in 1910 at which 100 delegates from all of NM’s counties developed a government for our state

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constitutional convention

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discoverer of an archaeological site that proved the Americas were inhabited by humans nearly 10,000 years before Christ

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George McJunkin

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anthropologist who curated NM’s exhibit at the Panama-California Exposition

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Edgar lee Hewett

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handsome cowboy silent-film star, made dozens of films in Las Vegas, NM during the 1910s

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tom mix

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most influential individual at NM’s Constitutional Convention; a very wealthy Republican sheep rancher from Valencia County

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soloman luna

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international exhibition held in San Diego during 1915-1916, organized to commemorate the completion of a canal that revolutionized commerce between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America

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panama-california exposition

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developed a unique “black on black” pottery style that earned international accolades

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Maria Martinez

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ill-fated settlement south of Roswell that perished due to a lack of water

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blackdom

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longstanding foreign policy that kept the US from becoming involved in European wars for nearly 100 years until the US entered WWI in 1917; named after the fifth US president

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monroe doctrine

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lunger, survived and became NM architect; designed Pueblo Revival buildings

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John Gaw Meem

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brought broken wagon wheel to Taos in 1898; founder of TSA

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Ernest Blumenshein

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wealthy NY feminist; tried to make Taos, NM an avant-garde spot

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Mabel Dodge Luhan

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painter; knew Mabel & moved to NM; lived at Ghost Ranch

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georgia o’keefe

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British novelist; knew Mabel & moved to NM; hated tourists

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d. h. lawrence

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elite art group; many members trained in Europe; Phillips, B. Shein

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TSA

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place for TB sufferers; open-air cottages; many later turned into NM hospitals

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sanatoriums

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ranch turned fancy hotel; popularized by Tom Mix; helped NM ranchers, way for people to experience western life in safe ways; pretty much a joke to westerners

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ranch turned fancy hotel; popularized by Tom Mix; helped NM ranchers

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started 1919, Zozobra, one of the tourist attractions

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santa fe fiesta

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opened 1927, winds from Chicago to LA; brought 1000s of tourists to NM monthly

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route 66

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made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal

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18th amendment

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change to the Constitution that gave women the vote

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19th amendment

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influential and well-educated advocate for passage of the 19th Amendment in New Mexico

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nina-otero warren

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Secretary of the Interior under Hoover convicted of taking bribes and sent to jail

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albert b. fall

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name for people who produced illegal alcohol during Prohibition

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bootleggers

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Albuquerque politician during the 1930s who was able to draw a lot of federal money to NM

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clyde tingley

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NM senator whose Washington connections served him well in attracting New Deal programs to NM

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dennis chavez

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area of the Southern plains hit by an environmental disaster during the 1930s

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dust bowl

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name for a large set of 1930s policies that greatly expanded the government’s role in the economy

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new deal

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president who was, fairly or unfairly, blamed for the advent of the Great Depression

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herbert hoover

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federal agent who attempted to give Native Americans in New Mexico more independence

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john collier

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New Deal program that employed painters and sculptors

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FAP

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bootcamp-style program that hired young men to work for 6 month stints

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civilian conservation corps

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american president who made the decision to use nuclear weapons against japan

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harry truman

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specially trained group of translators whose language skills helped the U.S. win decisive victories in the Pacific

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navajo code talkers

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65-mile ordeal that resulted in the brutal suffering and demise of nearly 900 New Mexicans

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bataan death march

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coordinated effort between Mexico and the United States that increased Mexican immigration into the US during WWII

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bracero program

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secret coordinated endeavor begun after Roosevelt received a letter from Einstein that employed over 100,000 Americans across the country

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Manhattan Project

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American physicist who led the team of scientists who worked secretly in Los Alamos

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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disguised Japanese prisoner transports that were frequently, and ironically, targets for American bombers

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hell ships

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place where the very first atomic weapon was detonated on July 16, 1945

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trinity site

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locations in Lordsburg and Santa Fe where American citizens were unconstitutionally detained because of their ethnicity

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internment camps

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surprise Japanese attack that killed over 2000 Americans and prompted US entry into WWII

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pearl harbor

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acclaimed Albuquerque war-time journalist who was killed while reporting on the front-line in the Pacific

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ernie pyle

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unofficial war that resulted in the deaths of nearly 54,000 American soldiers between 1950-1953

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korean conflict

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hysterical search for Communists in influential American industries

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McCarthyism

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Isleta pueblo teacher whose 1949 federal court case earned Native Americans in NM the right to vote

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Miguel trujillo

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jumped out of a helium balloon at nearly 103,000 feet above White Sands Proving Grounds

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joseph kittinger jr.

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Gallup soldier whose bravery earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor

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hiroshi miyamura

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federal legislation that gave veterans financial aid to help them establish careers and households in civilian life

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GI Bill

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controversy that resulted in the Archbishop of Santa Fe removing many Catholic nuns from teaching positions in New Mexico public schools

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Dixon School Case

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accident involving a nuclear weapon

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broken arrow

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enclosed pace to protect from nuclear explosion

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fallout shelter

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closed in 1994, it was one of the largest nuclear weapons storage facilities in the nation during the Cold War

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manzano base

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sacred site that returned to the control of Taos Pueblo after nearly sixty years of advocacy and activism

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blue lake

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controversial nuclear waste storage facility near Carlsbad that took nearly 30 years to develop and officially opened in 1999

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WIPP

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Texas-born, self-taught political activist who led an armed insurrection against the Rio Arriba county government during the late 1960s

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reies lopez tijerina

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home of Strategic Air Command, the bombing squad that would deliver atomic weapons in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack, until its closure in 1967

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walker air force base

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heavily-protested US military engagement in Asia during the 1960s that ended with a Communist takeover of an area the US had pledged to defend

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vietnam conflict

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Hispanic youth protesters at college campuses

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chicano

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organization developed to return possession of many New Mexico lands to their original Hispanic owners

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la alianza federal de mercedes

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organization formed By Dolores Huerta, tried to improve working conditions for mirgants + families, led 5 year boycott against grape growers

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united farm workers

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young Navajo student who turned to violence after his attempts to stop the exploitation of his people by the mayor of Gallup failed

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larry casuse

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pioneering Albuquerque balloonist and outdoor sports enthusiast who is responsible in part for two of Albuquerque’s biggest tourist attractions

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ben abruzzo

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Why did people in the US oppose NM becoming a state

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because of the largely hispanic & native american population that was considered “too foreign” meaning not loyal to the US. this idea was helped by the Taos Revolt, Bent being scalped and everyone being killed.

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How’d territorial politics hurt nm

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The Santa Fe Ring was in charge of New Mexico = corrupt government.

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