Water
Water that is found underground. (Aquafers, Reservoirs, etc)
Ground Water
True
Manhattan Project/Project Y
Legislation/Tactics used to force Native Americans out of their homes.
Indian Removal Act
New Mexico's Capital
Santa Fe
A long period of a shortage of water, very little precipitation or none at all.
Drought
When did New Mexico become a state?
1912
Site where the Atomic Bombs were tested
Trinity Site
Long Walk
New Mexico's largest Reservoir?
Elephant Butte
The 5th longest river in the United States. Stretches from Colorado down into New Mexico and exits into the Gulf of Mexico.
Rio Grande
A corrupt group that was a partial reason preventing New Mexico from becoming a state
Santa Fe Ring
Special soldiers employed during World War II to create a secret code
Navajo Code Talkers
Came in the forms of Boarding Schools mostly, but forced Native Americans to join in the "American Lifestyle"
Indian Assimilation
New Mexico's current Governor
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Precipitation that collects at the top of mountains and melts into rivers and lakes.
Snowpack
Reasons why Beveridge denied New Mexico Statehood
Religion, Race and Social Customs
The forced march of US/Filipino Prisoners
Bataan Death March
U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans
Dawes Act
The level of government that Tribal Government equate too
State Level government
Canales or Irrigation ditches.
Acequias
How Long it took for New Mexico to become a state
60 Years
Japanese Internment Camps
Problematic Land Grant that ended land rights to thousands of Residents in New Mexico/Mexico
Maxwell Land Grant
A state in which the minority represent the majority of people
Minority-Majority State