nm history ch 7&8

Question 1

a form of non-violent illegal activity that seeks to persuade people to correct an injustice in society

Answer 1

civil disobedience

Question 2

a labor-rights activist who was born in New Mexico and helped organize farm laborers in California to demand a living wage from their employers

Answer 2

dolores huerta

Question 3

a Los Lunas resident who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor after he threw himself on a live grenade in order to save the lives of his fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War

Answer 3

daniel fernandez

Question 4

a psychiatric condition experienced by many returning veterans who witnessed traumatic violence during the Vietnam War or other traumatic events

Answer 4

PTSD

Question 5

agreement signed by the US government that promised to honor the property rights of New Mexicans whose families had settled here long before it was an American territory

Answer 5

treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

Question 6

an unsuccessful attempt during the 1970s to get equal pay for women mandated by the U.S. Constitution

Answer 6

ERA

Question 7

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

Answer 7

manzano base

Question 8

Communist forces that employed civilian soldiers, in some cases even children, to attack US servicemen in the southeast Asia

Answer 8

Viet Cong

Question 9

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

Answer 9

WIPP

Question 10

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

Answer 10

dixon school case

Question 11

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

Answer 11

GI Bill

Question 12

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

Answer 12

vietnam war

Question 13

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

Answer 13

walker air force base

Question 14

implemented large-scale discrimination against Hispanics and was successfully pressured to stop

Answer 14

empire zinc corporation

Question 15

Irish-Navajo sheepherder who discovered uranium in the mountains north of Grants, NM in 1950

Answer 15

patricio martinez

Question 16

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

Answer 16

miguel trujillo

Question 17

location just south of Albuquerque where over 1900 thermonuclear weapons are stored, making it the largest nuclear storage facility in the country

Answer 17

KUMSC

Question 18

military location where much of the early development of space-travel technology took place

Answer 18

holloman air force base

Question 19

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

Answer 19

la alianza federal de mercedes

Question 20

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

Answer 20

ben abruzzo

Question 21

place where 4 anti-war protesters were killed by national guardsmen in 1970, sparking a nationwide set of campus protests, including one that turned violent at UNM

Answer 21

Kent State

Question 22

refugees who sought to escape a brutal Communist dictatorship after the United States ended its involvement in Vietnam

Answer 22

boat people

Question 23

Rio Arriba county district attorney who didn’t go in to work on June 5, 1967

Answer 23

alfonso sanchez

Question 24

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

Answer 24

blue lake

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Reies Lopez Tijerina

Question 26

the governor of New Mexico from 1967-1970 who called on the National Guard on more than one occasion to deal with protests that got out of hand

Answer 26

david cargo

Question 27

thirty-six hour ordeal that resulted in the violent deaths of 33 people and the torture and abuse of a hundred more

Answer 27

Santa Fe Prison Riot

Question 28

UNM basketball coach during the 1970s who brought the team great success but was also found to have falsified student-athletes academic records so that they were eligible to play

Answer 28

norm ellenberger

Question 29

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

Answer 29

korean conflict

Question 30

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

Answer 30

larry casuse