Native Americans
Indian children went there to "become civilized" by giving up their Indian ways
What was an Indian Boarding School
What is 47th?
The Manhattan Project was located in this town in New Mexico.
What is Los Alamos?
These were the two superpowers that developed after WWII.
What are The United States and the Soviet Union?
This industry employs the largest percentage of New Mexicans.
This was a new law that encouraged tribal unity and the preservation of Indian cultures
What was the Indian Reorganization Act?
This is the name of the corrupt political leaders before New Mexico became a state.
What was the Santa Fe Ring?
Filipino and American soldiers, including many New Mexicans, were forced to march 65 miles in this event.
What was the Bataan Death March
The Cold war involved these two races.
What are the space race and arms race?
This system distributes water to farmers, ranchers, and landowners.
What is the acequia system?
Name of the act that contributed to creating boarding schools for the Indians
What was the Dawes Act?
This war involved Billy the Kid, Sheriff Brady, John Tunstall, Lawrence Murphy, and Billy the Kid.
What was the Lincoln County War?
Native Americans who helped defeat the Japanese in the Pacific theater of WWII.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers.
Reies Lopez Tijerina was the leader of La Alianza Federal de Mercedes. He wanted Hipanics to do this.
What is reclaim lost land grants?
This type of business has become a major business for many Native American communities.
What are casinos?
Because of this act, created in 1934, the government killed half the sheep on the Navajo Reservation.
What was the Taylor Grazing Act?
A war between the Maxwell Land Grant Company and the local settlers.
What was the Colfax County War?
What were Japanese Internment Camps?
This is considered New Mexico's number one resource problem.
What is the shortage of water?
These type of elections are used by the parties to choose candidates for the general election.
What are primary elections?
This lake was returned to the Taos Pueblo in 1970, after they petitioned the U.S. Government
What is Blue Lake
Because of more Americans owning automobiles roads connected many parts of the U.S. including this road that went from Illinois to California and across New Mexico.
The two cities where the atomic bombs were dropped that led to the Japanese surrender.
What were Hiroshima and Nagasake?
These are two of the nations most important research laboratories located in New Mexico.
What are Sandia National Labs and Los Alamos National Labs?
What is local government?