Mismash
More miles of this road ran through NM than any other state.
Route 66
These Navajo Marines saved thousands of lives and helped the US win the war.
Code Talkers
This town South of Roswell had a store, school, church and post office.
Blackdom
In 1929, the stock market crash caused little business activity and 25% unemployment.
The Great Depression
This program's goals were: 1. To provide help to many who had lost jobs, savings and homes. 2. Economic recovery for the country. 3. Prevent another Great depression.
The New Deal
He used assembly-line production to make the Model T affordable for most people.
Henry Ford
In this message, the Germans said that if Mexico helped defeat the US, Germany would help Mexico get back the territory lost in the Mexican-American War, including NM.
Zimmerman Note
In this place South of Albuquerque, 42 families levelled the land, started new farms and built adobe homes.
Bosque Farms
This law threatened pueblo land grants and caused native Americans to create All Indian Pueblo council.
Bursum Bill
This program put men and women back to work and helped their families.
WPA
This military camp was used to train soldiers for World War I and had 30,000 soldiers training there.
Camp Cody
This 'Act' requires all men between 21 and 30 years old to sign up for possible military service. It’s called being ‘drafted.’
Selective Service Act
This Father of Wildlife Management once said: “Conservation is a state of harmony between men and the land."
Also Leopold
This law encouraged tribal unity and the preservation of native cultures. It also helped build schools, regain tribal land and reorganize tribal governments.
Indian Reorganization Act
This program employed poor young men who did not have education or experience to get a job.
CCC
This group of artists in Northern NM painted local native and Hispanic people, their crafts and dwellings, and used the way that light played on the landscape.
Santa Fe Art Colony
On this march in the Philippines, Japanese soldiers withheld food and water and viciously beat the prisoners.
Bataan Death March
To prevent overgrazing, the government killed many sheep and goats.
Taylor Grazing Act
This law had tried to force native Americans to abandon their native cultures.
Dawes Act
At this lake in Southern NM, the CCC constructed buildings, tourist cabins, landscaping, roads and trails throughout the park and a fish hatchery.
Elephant Butte Lake
This US General led the Mexican Expedition of 1916 in which Americans tested new weapons, airplanes and trucks, machines which had never before been used in combat.
John Pershing
This 'Project" to build a nuclear bomb was location outside of Los Alamos.
Manhattan Project
The Albuquerque home of this WWII journalist was made into a library after his death.
Ernie Pyle
This term is used for government projects that benefit the general public and are paid for with tax dollars.
Public Works
Because of these two men, one a governor and the other a senator, New Mexico received more New Deal money per person than any other state
Dennis Chavez and Clyde Tingley