Land Grants

Multiple Choice

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided protection for __________________

• land granted during Spanish and Mexican rule.

• the voting rights of Spanish-speaking citizens.

• the right of women to attend school.

• animals that might otherwise be at the mercy of their owners.

Multiple Choice

Pueblo grants were used ___________________

• only in Arizona during the Spanish Period.

• to settle communities north of Santa Fe.

• to establish villages for the Pueblos.

• to set aside community land for grazing.

Multiple Choice

The governor's canes symbolized __________________

• Spanish control over the Pueblos.

• the ancient history of the Pueblos

• a feeble people who needed canes.

• the right of the Pueblo to govern themselves

Multiple Choice

Community grants were used to ______________

• establish entire settlements, including homes and community lands.

• establish community colleges.

• raise money for community projects.

• start legal offices to process land claims.

Multiple Choice

Each owner in a community grant held private ownership of ________________

• the house and community lands

• their homes and a fraction share of all other community land.

• only the small plot with the house and gardens.

• enough land for many future generations to live on the land.

Multiple Choice

Why were community lands not recognized by U.S. lawyers?

• Common land was not a legal concept used by the U.Sl.

• Lawyers saw an opportunity to grab land for their overseas clients.

• The lawyers destroyed all of the paper records and evidence of boundaries.

• all of the above.

Open Ended

Describe the three type of land grants.

Multiple Choice

Land grant boundaries often consisted of ___________________

• lines laid out by a surveyor.

• a map drawn by the city engineer

• rocks, trees, mountains, or other landmarks

• nothing except communal land

Multiple Choice

The Santa Fe Ring became famous because __________________

• the robbed stagecoaches.

• lawyers gained control of large tracts of land through unscrupulous practices.

• they established humane practices for dealing with land claims.

• they served as protectors of the poor and uneducated.

Multiple Choice

The Court of Private Land Claims, established in 1891, ____________________

• settled claims that had been filed over nearly 50 years.

• actually settled only a fraction of the total claims.

• was established because of the scandal of the Santa Fe Ring.

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

The land grant of San Miguel del Vado illustrates _______________

• how lawyers worked to preserve the original size of the land grant.

• how the U.S. courts did not recognize community land.

• how the Santa Fe Ring helped people by managing their land for them.

• how citizens gave up their land to sell it for profit.

Open Ended

What were the problems with the land grants after New Mexico became a territory of the United States?