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A trail through New Mexico that brought passengers and the US mail.

What is the Butterfield Overland Trail

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A third of this group of calvary were New Mexicans that helped prove loyalty towards the US and gain statehood for New Mexico by fighting with Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American War

Rough Riders
100
Treaty that ended the Mexican American War in 1848 that settled the border between Mexico and Texas. US paid 15 million dollars and Mexico ceded 1/3 of its land.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

100

Signed in 1853 - this purchase of 29 million acres settled the southern border between New Mexico and Mexico, included the Mesilla Valley, and cost US 10 million dollars

Gadsden Purchase

100

To absorb or conform to the customs and attitudes of a particular cultural group

Assimilate

200

Created by the Navajo that helped US win World War II

Navajo Code Talkers or Wind Talkers

200

The 3 "R's" of the New Deal

Relief, Recovery, and Reform

200

Decade in US history of prosperity, employment, deficit spending, and buying on credit.  Introduced "flappers," jazz music, and ended with the stock market crash

Roaring 20's

200
This medicine man, and Chief, united the Pueblos and lead a successful revolt against the Spanish in 1680

Popè or Popay

200

Two natural advantages that early settlers had to consider when settling in New Mexico

Availability of water and fertile land
300
Campaign to force surrender of your enemy used by Kit Carson

Scorched-earth policy

300

These schools were used by white people to assimilate Native children to become Americanized

Indian Boarding Schools

300

A population of 60,000 and permission from Congress, and the Enabling Act are needed for this process

Statehood

300

The first and oldest route between the original Spanish settlements in New Mexico and Mexico City was an important trade and communications route

El Camino Real

300

Known as the "Father of the A-bomb"

Oppenheimer

400

He promised protection from enemies, land, and religion if you don't take up arms against the US.

The Kearny Code/General Kearny

400

This war was the most famous in New Mexico and lasted 3 years and ended with the death of Billy the Kid

Lincoln County War

400

Trail beginning in Independence Missouri and ending in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe Trail
400

Important business tribes developed to raise money and increase high school and college graduation rates.

Casinos

400

A representative in the US Congress from New Mexico - His niece is the current Governor of New Mexico

Michael Lujan, Jr.

500

Major battle seen as a turning point in the civil war fought in New Mexico leading to Confederate forces failing to win the Southwest

The Battle of Glorietta Pass

500

African American soldiers that helped protect settlers from Indian attacks

Buffalo soldiers

500

Forced journey made by Navajo from their home to Bosque Redondo (400 miles)

The Navajo Long Walk

500

Country that first colonized New Mexico

Spain

500

Born in New Mexico to a poor family, he became a US House of Representative and fought for civil rights and helped create the bill that became the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Dennis Chavez