What is the name of one of the first wagon routes linking New Mexico to California.
Cooke's Wagon Road.
100
The 1862 Homestead Act gave _______________ of ___________ to settlers willing to meet certain conditions?
162 Acres of land
100
What is the name of the first railroad company to build tracks into New Mexico?
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad - of the Santa Fe Railroad.
100
What is the name of an original boomtown?
Silver City
100
What did tourists from around the world spend their money in New Mexico on?
Train tickets, food, lodging and souvenirs - Indian pottery and rugs.
200
This trail opened in 1858 and it was approximately 2,800 miles long. It could be traveled in 25 days.
The Butterfield Overland Trail.
200
Why did many homesteaders leave the land and all they had done behind?
Little rain, they had to haul the water from miles away and the soil was poor.
200
What type of jobs did the railroad employ?
People who could lay tracks, operate and repair trains and collect tickets and handle baggage.
200
Turquoise was first mined by which ancient people?
Ancestral Pueblo people.
200
Why did sick people come to New Mexico?
NM has always been considered a healthy place to live because of its mild, dry climate.
300
New Mexico's population more than _________ between 1850 and 1900.
tripled.
300
What were the two businesses that began to grow and prosper in the years after the civil war?
Sheep and cattle ranching.
300
Where did the first gold strike in New Mexico occur and in what year?
The first gold strike in New Mexico did not occur until the 1830s in the Ortiz Mountains south of Santa Fe.
300
Coal is used as a course of ______________?
Fuel
300
What did most of the sick people who came to New Mexico have (disease?)
Tuberculosis (TB)
400
What is the name given to people who converted to Catholicism?
Conversos.
400
What is the name given to sheep meat?
Mutton
400
Where did many miners come from when they had failed at gold mining - prospecting.
They came from California.
400
What often affected coal miners and made them sick?
Breathing the coal dust and gas.
400
Where did tourists eat (the most famous restaurant) when traveling through New Mexico in the late 1800 and early 1900s?
Harvey Houses.
500
What is the name of the first bishop who served New Mexico?
Jean Baptite Lamy.
500
Who purchased beef after the civil war?
The U.S. army purchased beef to feed soldiers stationed at forst and Indians confined at Bosque Redondo and other reservations. Mining and railroad companies also purchased beef to feed their workers.
500
What type of equipment did trains bring to New Mexico.
Heavy machinery so valuable minerals could be mined and removed and equipment to be used on New Mexico's farms and ranches
500
Where is the largest working copper mine in New Mexico today located?
Near Silver City.
500
Why did young women want to work in Fred Harvey Houses?
Because there were few job opportunities for women, they also wanted adventure or to see more of the world. Some even hoped to meet their future husband.