Railroads
Mining
Farming
Becoming a U.S. State
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What is the name of the first railroad in New Mexico?
A.T.&S.F
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Who found the first known gold fields in New Mexico?
New Mexicans
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What is a homestead?
160-acre farm
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What year did congress ask New Mexico to become a state?
1910
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What is the name of the textbook?
A History of New Mexico
200
What is a popular stopping place along the A.T.&S.F.?
Harvey Houses
200
What did New Mexicans fin in Santa Rita?
Copper
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In what county did small farms lose there farms?
Roosevelt County
200
Who was the president that made New Mexico becoming a U.S. state official?
William Howard Taft
200
What does adobe?
Building material made form mixing water with clay and sand
300
Where do the A.T.&S.F meet the Southern Pacific Railroad?
Deming
300
What is Santa Rita called today?
Silver City
300
In what year did the crops began to grow well?
1900s
300
What was the number of New Mexico?
47
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What is the barter system?
System in which people trade goods for other goods.
400
Where does the railroad enter New Mexico?
The North
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In what year did they find gold in the Ortiz Mountains?
1828
400
How many people lived in Roosevelt County in 1904?
About 3,000
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What did congress think New Mexico was?
"foreign land"
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What page is the index on?
335 pg.
500
What was the date when the A.T.&S.F. pulled in to Albuquerque?
April 22, 1880
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Where did Civil War Prospector find gold?
Elizabeth-town, White Oaks, and Hillsboro
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What is Dry-farming?
When farmers practice with little or no rainfall
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What are the three branches of government?
Executive, judicial, and legislative
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What is the name of chapter 15?
New Mexico today
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