Which statements are supported by the graph? (*Hint: Besides tourism, NM is known for this in it's economy).

After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941, Americans blamed the debacle on espionage committed by Japanese Americans instead of the lack of preparedness by American military forces. The federal government actually had proof that no espionage had occurred, but chose not to contradict the circulating rumors. Indeed before Pearl Harbor, Curtis B. Munson, a special representative to President Roosevelt, had studied whether the Japanese Americans of the west coast posed a threat to the country, but had concluded that they did not. Nevertheless, officials in the administration chose to ignore the evidence and succumbed to war hysteria. The federal government operated on the assumption that Japanese-Americans would form a fifth column and aid in the expected Japanese invasion. Hence the government believed that people of Japanese ancestry needed to be removed from the west coast. According to this author, Japanese descendants were put into internment camps because . . .

NM's National Guardsmen were fighting to defend the Bataan Peninsula from the Japanese. They fought bravely before surrendering. They participated in the death march and only 900 of the 1800 survived.

The legacy of the Manhattan project within New Mexico continues today at ________________________. (There is more than one answer).

New Mexico also made other impressive contributions to the war effort, including Navajo Code Talkers, an elite group of Marine recruits whose native language was used to create a code that was unbreakable by the Japanese. The military did not declassify documents acknowledging the Code Talkers’ role in the war until 1968. The last surviving member of the original 29 code talkers, Chester Nez, lives in Albuquerque. According to this author, the Navajo Code was kept secret because it was _________________.

For what reasons was the Navajo language an ideal basis for a military code?

There were two Internment camps within the state of New Mexico and according to the Department of Justice, from March 1942 to April 1946, the Santa Fe Internment Camp held 4,555 men of Japanese ancestry. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US Government arrested and imprisoned thousands of Japanese-American men branding them “dangerous enemy aliens.” Incarcerated without trial, they were forced to leave behind their families along with everything they knew and loved. New Mexico was selected as an ideal location for these two Internment camps because . . .

What was the name of the original project to develop nuclear weapons – atomic bomb?

New Mexico played a key role in the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to build the world’s first atomic bomb. The army set-up a research laboratory in Los Alamos to develop the bomb, which, after successful testing at the ___________ site at White Sands Proving Ground on July 16, 1945 was unleashed on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastening the end of the war.

According to the map, which Native American tribe has the largest reservation in New Mexico?

Acequias are used by ___________________ communities.

Surface water sources range from lake water to __________ and _________.

Rural communities around the world traditionally take their water supply from rivers or from shallow dug wells. Growing concentrations of people combined with the increasing industrialization of land use have resulted in many major rivers becoming highly polluted. Sometimes the pollution levels even cause the rivers to become biologically dead and poisonous to drink. In areas where surface water is not readily available, groundwater is the primary water source and serves an estimated 20% of the global population who live in arid and semi-arid regions. Underground aquifers are slower to show problems but now are increasingly affected by contamination that is extremely difficult to undo. Some things that can contaminate ground water include _____________.

A minority/majority state is one where the majority outnumbers the minorities.

How has art (Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings)- impacted the State of New Mexico?

In the late 1600s, the government of Spain and the Spanish king and his representatives conveyed land to individuals, groups and towns through a system of land grants, or mercedes, in order to promote settlement on the frontier. Spanish authorities used the system in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California, but the oldest land grants are in ____________. There were more than 150 community land grants totaling 9.3 million acres awarded by first the Spanish and then the Mexican governments.

As Baby Boomers age and eventually die, it's inevitable that people of color, who are on average younger and have more children than whites, will make up a __________ share of the population.

In the early 1960s, Reies Lopez Tijerina began the Land-Grant movement in the state of New Mexico. In violation of the provisions of the Treaty of ___________ __________, which ended the U.S. war with Mexico in 1848, the property of the Mexican inhabitants of what is now the Southwest U.S. was not respected.

Based on this data, which of the following statement is true?

La Alianza Federal de Mercedes, a land activist group, headed by Reies Tijerina and based in New Mexico during the Chicana/movement in the 1960s and 1970s fought for the __________ rights of Chicano New Mexicans.

Reies López Tijerina investigated the original land-grant titles and exposed the processes by which they were stolen. Lopez Tijerina needed a better way to attract the attention of the public and of the government. His investigation was very serious, and he needed a serious way to fight to get back the land lost by the Mexicans. He decided to create an organization that could attract possible followers and that way he could have a more solid base to work; Lopez Tijerina named his organization the Alianza Federal de Mercedez.The Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants) was formed in the state of New Mexico during the year of 1962. The purpose of the creation of this organization was to publicize the claims of the Mexicans and some Mexican-Americans to the land now occupied by Anglos and by the National Forest Service. Unlike the rest of the social movements that were part of the Chicano movement, the Land Grant movement was marked as one of the violent social movements of 1960s. Unfortunately, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes was blamed for promoting the usage of violence.According to this author, the land in question was occupied by Anglos and __________.

The term "economic activity" describes the flow of __________. Everything that is bought and sold and every sale of something intangible, such as a song or an insight, is tallied by economists and civil servants who track economic activity. For meaningful and relevant reporting, economic activities are often broken down into sectors of the economy that describe clusters of goods or services, or ways to earn money.

The most important economic activity taking place in the south-central portion of New Mexico along the Rio Grande is __________.

According New Mexico State University (College of Agriculture) article, the combination of __________ and food processing is an important part of New Mexico’s economy. Together the two broad industries accounted for $10.6 billion (roughly 12.3%) of New Mexico’s $86.5 billion gross state product (GSP) in 2012. In addition, the two industries directly created 32,578 jobs and 18,308 jobs in related support activities for a total of 50,886 jobs statewide.

“We do not want our land cut up in little pieces . . . A groan of assent ran along the dark line of Sphinxes. ”Can you infer who spoke these words concerning the DAWES ACT?

“A Congressman sponsored a landmark piece of legislation, which was also called the General Allotment Act of 1887. This law was designed to encourage the breakup of the tribes and promote the assimilation of Indians into American Society. It was the major Indian policy until the 1930s.” This is referring to the...

I was written in order to break up tribes and halt the nomadic lifestyles of Native American Indians. My creators wanted to integrate Native Indians into the lifestyle and culture of western Americans. One of my main purposes was to encourage Native Indians to adopt a settle farming-based existence. This author is referring to the . . .

I was almost a past piece of legislation and would have given Indian reservation lands to non-Indians. Within, I referred to these people as squatters who came onto Pueblo Indian lands without permission and who began building their houses/homes without ownership of this land. What conclusion can you draw from reading this excerpt? This is in reference to the . . .

Within the system of checks and balances set up in NHPA (National Historic Preservation Act), the Historic Preservation Division gives New Mexico a strong voice in federal government actions that affect the state's historic heritage. Through the Historic Preservation Division, decision-making about preservation issues are brought down to the state, county and local government levels. What possible motive(s) do New Mexicans have for destroying historical sites within New Mexico?

“What was the purpose of American Indian Boarding Schools, such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918)?”

PAN-Indianism

Tribal Gaming has benefited tribes in New Mexico by

What does tourism do for our state’s economy?

What is considered New Mexico’s number-one problem?

What was the goal of La Alianza?

Which resource do we not have enough of to meet our needs?

Who determines the structure and function of tribal government?

A racial/ethnic minority group (compared with the whole country) is the majority of the state.

Because the boundaries were unclear and written records were scarce. Choose the best question.