Introduction
U.S. Brigadier General who led his army west to Santa Fe
Stephen W. Kearny
an act of joining : the state of being joined
Jointure
Laws written into the New Mexico Constitution to protect education and voting right of Hispanics.
Ironclad Clauses
A secret message sent from Germany to Mexico, which made the U.S. join WWI.
Zimmerman Telegraph
This artist founded the Taos Artist Society after getting stuck in Taos due to a broken wagon wheel.
Bert Geer Phillips
Economic downturn in the early 1930s, which severely impacted industries and workers across the U.S.
Great Depression
US, France, UK, and the Soviet Union
Allied Powers
The forced relocation on the Navajo people from their homeland in Arizona and NM to Bosque Redondo.
Navajo Long Walk
Group of politicians and lawyers who stole land from people of NM
Santa Fe Ring
a delegate to the New Mexico Constitutional Convention who fought to include Ironclad Clauses to the NM Constitution
Solomon Luna
A Mexican revolutionary general who led an attack on Columbus, NM
Pancho Villa
Taos Society of Artists
Large dust storms cause by drought and bad farming techniques.
Dust bowl
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Axis Power
Reservation for the Navajos set up on a small piece of land near the Pecos River in Eastern NM.
Bosque Redondo
This treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US the Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
a lawmaking body with two separate houses or chambers. I.E. Senate and House of Representatives
Bicameral Legislature
This is word describes mandatory requirement for individuals to serve in the armed forces
Draft
These were hospitals set up in the west to treat people with Tuberculosis.
Sanatorium
He was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 11th governor of New Mexico.
Clyde Tingley
Forced march of American and Philippine troops 60 miles down the Bataan Peninsula
Bataan Death March
This Congressional Delegate from New Mexico delayed New Mexico's statehood with just a handshake.
Stephen Elkins
New Mexico's first female government official who fought for women's voting rights.
Nina Otero-Warren
individuals who practice or live a homesteading lifestyle, which involves living off the land, often with a focus on self-sufficiency
Homesteaders
U.S General who lead the American Punitive Expedition to capture Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing
A lung disease caused by bacteria in the lungs
Tuberculosis
32nd U.S. president who proposed the New Deal to help Americans recover from the Great Depression.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Navajo American who used secret code to hide American messages from the Axis Powers.
Navajo Code Talkers
Volunteer Captain of the Rough Riders who's family Los Lunas is named after.
Maximilliano Luna
In the 1920s this new law made the sale and transport of alcohol illegal in the U.S.
Prohibition
A meeting to formally write NM's state constitution
Constitutional Convention
Small gardens grown by the people of NM to feed themselves as WW1 was occurring
Victory Gardens
This word was used to describe someone suffering from Tuberculosis
Lunger
This U.S House of Representative member fought with Clyde Tingley to bring the New Deal to New Mexico.
Dennis Chavez
Scientific leader of the Manhattan Project, to build the Atomic Bomb.
Robert J. Oppenheimer
A politician, lawyer, and suspected leader of the Santa Fe Ring
Thomas Catron
These laws guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law for all individuals, regardless of their race, religion, or other personal characteristics
Civil Rights
A small all black community founded in New Mexico
Blackdom
A deadly flu epidemic that killed more people that WW1
Spanish Flu
This road also known as the "Mother Road", connected Chicago to Los Angeles.
Route 66
A series of programs from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression
New Deal
Prison camps for Japanese, German, and Italian Americans during WW2
Internment Camps
Indiana Senator who opposed NM statehood
Albert Beveridge
This proposed law aimed to clear title to land claimed by non-Indians on Indian lands, particularly Pueblo lands
Bursum Bill
A fair held in California in 1917, which gave NM a chance to show the world its diverse cultures to the rest of the U.S.
Panama-California Exposition
These savings accounts allowed New Mexicans to support paying for WW1
Liberty Bonds
Ranches set up for eastern Americans to come live the cowboy lifestyle.
Dude Ranches
This New Deal program worked to bring jobs and training to the youth of NM. They focused on conservation of NM's public lands.
CCC
Location the first atomic bomb was detonated in NM.
Trinity Site