Effect on New Mexicans
High unemployment for youth, women, Mexican migrant workers, and seasonal labor.
What minority groups were the most affected the Great Depression in New Mexico?
First term in office of this President during the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
National program for youth signed into legislation from the first days of Roosevelts administration.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?
New Mexico National Guard formed into this unit during WWII.
What was the 200th Coast Artillery and the 515th Coast Artillery.
The international agreement governing the treatment of prisoners of war and the camps specifying the humane treatment of prisoners.
What is the Geneva Convention?
Illegal liquor, fishing and hunting out of season, welfare, barter
How did New Mexicans make a living when there were no jobs?
1932 Democratic Presidential Candidate
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Right to organize Unions and negotiate labor contracts through collective bargaining.
What was the National Industrial Recovery Act?
A 65-mile walk along the Philippines.
What was the Bataan Death March?
Secret project to develop, test and use the world's first nuclear bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
What was Mexican immigrant labor
Came to New Mexico with his wife to cure her of Tuberculosis and stayed.
Who was Clyde Tingley?
What Gallup coal companies used to keep the mines open during strikes.
What are scabs?
Hash-kay-gi-na-tah war chief and
tsidi-moffa-ye-hi bird carrier
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers
Individuals who led the Manhattan Project.
Who were J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves?
Skilled Labor
What was 25% of the labor force out of jobs.
New Deal program to provide jobs for Americans from manual labor to the fine arts.
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
What Congress passed in 1934 to allow for separate tribal constitutions and self-government.
What was the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)?
Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin
August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945
What was Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
150,000 square-mile drought stricken area.
What was the Dust Bowl
Program to provide over 165 men and women who shared talents in public art projects across the state.
What was the Federal Art Project?
Reduction in over-grazing of sheep on the Navajo reservation causing great financial losses for the Navajo.
What was the Taylor Grazing Act
Gasoline, rubber silk, shoes, meat, sugar, coffee, cheese and canned goods.
What was rationed during the war.
2,263 and 49,549
How many New Mexican died and fought in World WarII?