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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)
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