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What was not an issue in New Mexico becoming a state? ✔✔Population size 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. Why was New Mexico's constitution considered "safe and sane"? ✔✔It was not politically radical. This set into motion the processes for New Mexican's to create a suitable constitution: ✔✔The Enabling Act of 1910. What was Blackdom? ✔✔A town south of Roswell founded by African Americans

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NM History Questions and Answers
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What was not an issue in New Mexico becoming a state? ✔✔Population size
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.
Why was New Mexico's constitution considered "safe and sane"? ✔✔It was not politically
radical.
This set into motion the processes for New Mexican's 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
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What was not an issue in New Mexico becoming a state? ✔✔Population size

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.

Why was New Mexico's constitution considered "safe and sane"? ✔✔It was not politically radical.

This set into motion the processes for New Mexican's 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

Homesteaders had five years to "prove up." What does this mean? ✔✔They had to farm successfully on the land.

What role did New Mexican's play in the Civil War? ✔✔New Mexicans volunteered to fight in the war against the Confederates.

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

New Mexico's Building exhibit at the Panama -California Expedition ✔✔Was built to model a church in Acoma, honor the culture of Native Americans and Hispanics, and received many prizes and honors.

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.

The Lungers suffered from: ✔✔Tuberculosis

Sanatoriums were hospitals for : ✔✔People who suffered from Tuberculosis

Route 66 was a road that linked : ✔✔Chicago and Los Angeles

What happened to Blue Lake in 1906? ✔✔It was made part of Carson National Forest

Blue Lake is a holy place for what people? ✔✔Taos

Which of the following groups re-organized to fight the Bursum Bill? ✔✔All Pueblo Council

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

Almost every community in New Mexico benifited from this New Deal program which hired New Mexico workers and built public facilities: ✔✔WPA (Works Progress Administration)

What New Deal program was created to provide employment opportunities for young men age 18-28 who did not have an education and were suffering during the Great Depression? ✔✔CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.)

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? ✔✔Dennis Chavez

What law would have given title of much of the Pueblo land to non-native american who had long occupied property on pueblo borders? ✔✔Bursum Bill

The Mother Road, the Main Street of America, and the Neon Road are all nicknames for what? ✔✔Route 66

The Navajo Code Talkers were_______ ✔✔Navajo Native Americans who coded their own language to help the US win WWII

An internment camp is _____ ✔✔a camp where Japanese Americans were forced to live

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the _______________? ✔✔Lead scientist for the Manhattan Project

What country was responsible for forcing allied soldiers to march during the Bataan Death March? ✔✔Japan

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

In 1948, Miguel Trujillo won the right for Native Americans to ✔✔Vote in elections

What brought more people to New Mexico during the Cold War Era? ✔✔Reies Lopez Tijerina

Where did the United States housed the entire Nuclear Arsenal here during the Cold War Era. ✔✔Manzano Base

What did William "Mack" Brazel discover while mending fences near Roswell, NM? ✔✔A strange crash site

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.

Why did Hispanic farmers lose their land grants? ✔✔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.

Who was the leader of La Alianza de Federal Mercedes? ✔✔Reies Lopez Tijerina

What was the goal of La Alianza? ✔✔To reclaim lost land grants.

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

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.

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

What facility receives and stores radioactive waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons? ✔✔WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant)

The Mother Road, ✔✔