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100
The first New Mexican and the 12th and last person to walk on the moon.
Who is the Roswell E.T.? (Just kidding!) The real answer: Who is Harrison Schmitt?
100
John Collier, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs during New Deal times, helped overturn the 1887 Dawes Act and the 1920s Bursum Bill, both of which hurt Native American people and culture, by supporting passage of this new law.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
100

The New Deal of FDR included the creation of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). These organizations engaged in many projects of this type.

What are public works?

100
This area of the country in the southern Great Plains region suffered a serious drought during the mid-1930s and became known by this title.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
The Taos Society of Artists was created at this time.
What is 1915?
200
This president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
200
This note, intercepted by the British in 1917, uncovered a proposition that Germany offered to Mexico and led to U.S. involvement in World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Note or Zimmerman Telegram?
200

A person who is not enlisted in the military.

What is a civilian?

200

These were the Axis Powers during World War II.

What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?

200
During this year, the launching of the Soviet satellite called Sputnik initiated a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is 1957?
300
These members of a special U.S. Marines unit during World War II created a secret code that was never cracked by the Japanese.
What are the Navajo Code Talkers? (Other Native Americans besides the Navajos were also involved in creating secret codes during wartime).
300
During World War II, more than 110,000 U.S. citizens were taken from their homes and businesses and forced to live in inland detention camps, two of which were in New Mexico.
What is the Japanese Internment?
300
An economic system where the government owns all land, property, and businesses and controls the economy in every way.
What is communism?
300
This strategic mineral was discovered near what town in New Mexico? (Name the mineral and the town)
What are uranium and Grants, New Mexico?
300
Uranium was discovered in New Mexico.
What is 1950?
400
These two New Mexicans gained fame during World War II. One was a war correspondent and the other a cartoonist who showed average American soldiers at war.
Who are Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin?
400
This 1964 Act of Congress prohibited any kind of discrimination in public places.
What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
400
People who move from place to place.
What are migrants?
400
Name the midwestern state where Route 66 begins, the west coast state where it ends, and at least two states that it runs through in between.
What is Illinois (where it begins), California (where it ends), and Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona (where it runs through).
400

The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan during this year.

What is 1945?

500
This person helped in the development of military rockets and space travel. He worked in the Roswell area.
Who is Robert Goddard?
500
From 1945 - 1991, this war between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union was fought without direct combat between the two countries.
What is the Cold War?
500
An economic system that allows for the private ownership of land, property, and businesses, and the free flow of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
500
Reies Lopez Tijerina gained national media attention when he and his followers staged an armed raid on a courthouse in this town in 1967.
What is Tierra Amarilla?
500

Although Native Americans served in the U.S. military during many conflicts up to and including World War II, they did not gain the right to vote until this year when a Marine Corps veteran from Isleta Pueblo sued the government for the right of indigenous citizens to vote. (What year were indigenous people granted the right to vote and who was the Marine Corps veteran who successfully sued to gain that right?)

What is 1948 and who was Miguel Trujillo?

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