NM HISTORY FINAL EXAM
  • 1. What do historians study to learn about the past?
A) Primary and secondary sources from one person’s perspective
B) Only primary sources
C) Primary and secondary sources from multiple perspectives
D) Only secondary sources
  • 2. Why is it important to study history from multiple perspectives?
A) Because studying only one perspective would be boring
B) Because you can learn more about historic events
C) Because the first perspective is always wrong
D) Because it is a state law
  • 3. What makes someone a historical thinker?
A) Someone who questions history and draws conclusions
B) Someone who enjoys history
C) Someone who creates his or her own history
D) Someone who wants to live just like people did in the past
  • 4. What is geography?
A) The study of rocks and minerals
B) The study of weather patterns over time
C) The study of the earth's land, water, people, plants and animals
D) The study of plants and animals and their habitats
  • 5. The five themes of geography are:
A) Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region
B) Deciduous, coniferous, Mediterranean, maritime, and arctic
C) Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, lava, and sand
D) North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa
  • 6. TheUnited States is divided into regions because:
A) The regions are all in the South.
B) The regions are next to each other.
C) The regions are all by the ocean.
D) The regions share at least one common feature.
  • 7. Some of the tools geographers use are:
A) Barometers, sextons, wind socks, and altimeters
B) Maps, globes, satellite imagery, and aerial photographs
C) Humidifiers, seismographs, x-rays, and sonographs
D) Calipers, scales, plumb bobs, and rulers
  • 8. New Mexico is part of the Southwest region with which other states?
A) Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana
B) Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona
C) California, Nevada, and Arizona
D) Utah, Colorado, and Arizona
  • 9. The four provinces of New Mexico are:
A) Sunshine, Monsoon, Dust Storm, and Wind
B) Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, Great Plains, and Basin and Range
C) Antelope, Snakes, Bats, and Rodents
D) Desert, Mountain, River, and Lake
  • 10. How are life zone's determined?
A) By longitude
B) By elevation
C) By rock type
D) By latitude
  • 11. What is New Mexico’s most precious resource?
A) Water
B) uranium
C) sunshine
D) gold
  • 12. New Mexico is in what two hemispheres?
A) Southern and Western
B) Northern and Eastern
C) Northern and Western
D) Southern and Eastern
  • 13. Which item is a secondary source?
A) A photograph
B) A shoe
C) A diary
D) A history textbook
  • 14. What is the role of an archaeologist?
A) To hunt for food
B) To write about modern people
C) To study prehistoric people
D) To investigate crime scenes
  • 15. Which of the following statements is not correct?
A) The Paleo people made Clovis points.
B) The Paleo people were nomadic.
C) The Paleo people lived in pit houses.
D) The Paleo people hunted very large animals.
  • 16. Which of the following was not an innovation of the Archaic people?
A) Pueblo houses
B) Atlatl
C) Pit houses
D) Mano and metate
  • 17. The Mogollon people were first to do what in New Mexico?
A) Farm full time
B) Build pueblos
C) Hunt
D) Live the nomadic lifestyle
  • 18. What did the Ancestral Puebloans do to meet the growing need for housing?
A) They began to build multi-level pit houses.
B) They began to build multi-level pueblos.
C) They spread out across more of the land.
D) They moved west for more land.
  • 19. Which of the following statements about Chaco Canyon is not true?
A) t was made by modern Apache Indians.
B) It is an Ancestral Puebloan city.
C) It has many pueblo houses.
D) Its largest city was Pueblo Bonito.
  • 20. The Diné people developed into which two groups of people?
A) The Navajo and Apache
B) The Mogollon and Ancestral Puebloans
C) The Folsom and Clovis people
D) The Paleo and Archaic people
  • 21. Which tribe is the largest group of Native Americans in New Mexico and the second-largest group of Native Americans in the United States?
A) Archaic
B) Navajo
C) Mogollon
D) Apache
  • 22. What were the Apache best known for?
A) Being great musicians
B) Being skilled craftsmen
C) Being the first farmers
D) Being fierce warriors
  • 23. Kivas were used for all of the following except:
A) Ceremonies
B) Storage
C) Religion
D) A gathering place
  • 24. What led to Mexico’s independence from Spain?
A) A desire to stay with Spain
B) Corrupt government practices
C) Power struggles
D) Help from Americans in the Spanish American War
  • 25. What happened in New Mexico after Mexico gained independence from Spain?
A) Spain fought Mexico for New Mexico.
B) New Mexico became part of the United States.
C) New Mexico gave land to the United States.
D) New Mexico experienced political instability.
  • 26. What did more trade routes and an increase in trade do for New Mexico?
A) It decreased job opportunities.
B) It did not help or hurt New Mexico.
C) It made New Mexico less isolated.
D) It increased New Mexico’s crime rate.
  • 27. What was the cause of the Chimayo Rebellion?
A) Political corruption and public greed
B) An unpopular governor implementing new tax policies
C) An attack from Mexico over new trade laws
D) There was no rebellion in 1837
  • 28. What created tense relations between Texans and New Mexicans?
A) There were good relations
B) Preferential treatment from Mexico
C) Desire for more land
D) Unfair trading practices
  • 29. What started the Mexican American War of 1846?
A) Dishonest Mexican peace delegates
B) Border disputes over Texas
C) United States annexed Texas
D) Corrupt government in Mexico
  • 30. What did Mexico agree to in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A) To give the United States a third of its land, including New Mexico
B) To give the United States New Mexico but nothing else
C) To give the United States a third of its land, not including New Mexico
D) To have peace with the United States for 10 years
  • 31. Which of the following is not true about the Mexican American War?
A) It started with the peaceful surrender of General Armijo.
B) During a rebellion, Governor Bent was killed.
C) Mexico won the war.
D) It was sparked by disputes over the Texas border.
  • 32. How did New Mexicans feel about slavery in their territory?
A) Slavery was not an issue if New Mexico
B) All New Mexicans did not want slavery.
C) All New Mexicans wanted slavery.
D) Some New Mexicans wanted slavery and some did not.
  • 33. What happened after Carson used a scorched-earth campaign to force the Indians to surrender?
A) The Indians endured the Trail of Tears and confinement at Bosque Redondo.
B) The Indians endured the Navajo Long Walk and confinement at Bosque Redondo
C) The Indians were given adequate supplies.
D) The Indians joined with the Confederates.
  • 34. Which Indian tribes fought against the Americans to keep their way of life?
A) Pueblo and Navajo
B) Apache and Pueblo
C) Navajo and Apache
D) Navajo and Taos
  • 35. Why did the Confederates want the Southwest?
A) To prove they could conquer it
B) To pay for the war
C) To appease their soldiers
D) To live somewhere new
  • 36. How did the white people try to make the Indian culture appear more like their own?
A) They made friends with the Indians and showed them what they thought were more efficient ways of living.
B) They made it against the law for tribes to participate in any tribal ceremonies unless a white person was there.
C) They made it against the law for Indians to speak any language besides English.
D) They created boarding schools for the Indian children to learn the ways of white people.
  • 37. Which of the following is not one of the trails from New Mexico to California?
A) Maxwell Overland Trail
B) Butterfield Overland Trail
C) Cooke’s Wagon Road
D) Old Spanish Trail
  • 38. People came to New Mexico for a lot of these reasons except:
A) To get a new start
B) To learn Spanish
C) To buy cheap land
D) To get gold
  • 39. Which religion faced challenges from new missionaries and their new bishop?
A) The Muslim religion
B) The Catholic religion
C) The Protestant religion
D) The Jewish religion
  • 40. The government gave land to settlers, but what problem did the settlers have in eastern New Mexico?
A) The ground was too fertile.
B) Farming was difficult in that area.
C) There was too much rainfall.
D) They had too many crops to sell.
  • 41. Which of the following were not helped by the railroad?
A) Families wanting to move to the territory
B) Los Hermanos Penitentes
C) Business owners
D) Tourists
  • 42. All of the following contributed to New Mexico’s lawlessness except:
A) Few lawmen
B) Few guns
C) Many places to hide
D) Few judges
  • 43. Which war was sparked by a conflict over political and economic power in New Mexico Territory?
A) The Civil War
B) The Colfax County War
C) The Lincoln County War
D) The Spanish American War
  • 44. Disputes over land grants and water rights often resulted in what?
A) Peace treaties
B) Trade
C) Friendships
D) Violence
  • 45. For how many years was New Mexico a territory?
A) 62 years
B) 26 years
C) 61 years
D) 16 years
  • 46. Which of the following was not an issue in New Mexico becoming a state?
A) Concerns about corruption
B) Violence of the Wild West
C) Concerns about loyalty
D) Population size
  • 47. What did New Mexicans do in the Spanish American War to prove their loyalty?
A) Refused to fight
B) Sent letters of encouragement
C) Fought in the Rough Riders
D) Only sent supplies
  • 48. New Mexico was the ___ state to join the United States.
A) 26th
B) 34th
C) 47th
D) 45th
  • 49. What strained relations between Mexico and the United States?
A) The U.S. Army’s pursuit of Pancho Villa
B) The U.S. Army’s surrender to Mexico during the Mexican Expedition
C) Mexico’s pursuit of the U.S. Army
D) Mexico taking land from the United States
  • 50. Which of the following is not an example of how New Mexico contributed to World War I?
A) Farmers and ranchers raised and produced food to feed troops.
B) New Mexico only allowed men to help with the war.
C) NewMexicousedsomeofitslandastraining camps for soldiers.
D) Women helped run farms and ranches while the men were away at war.
  • 51. Why are the 1920s remembered as a time of prosperity?
A) Because it was a time when many were losing their jobs and living in poverty
B) Because it was a time of many world wars
C) Because it was a decade of economic and cultural growth for New Mexico and the United States
D) Because that is what the government said it should be called
  • 52. What is Black Tuesday?
A) The day World War II started
B) The day of the worst stock market crash in history
C) The day the sun did not shine for 24 hours
D) The day when African Americans received equal rights
  • 53. Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression?
A) Many people lost their jobs
B) The stock market crash
C) Many companies went bankrupt
D) Many new businesses and jobs were created
  • 54. What was the goal of the Indian Reorganization Act?
A) To try and make Native Americans live like white men
B) To try and fix problems for Native Americans that were created by earlier policies
C) To take more land from Native Americans
D) To reorganize Native Americans onto smaller reservations
  • 55. How did NM help during WWII?
A) By only providing supplies to the US military
B) By refusing to send men to fight in the war
C) by only providing women to fight in the war
D) By providing soldiers, suppplies, and new weapons to the US
  • 56. In what state ws the Manhattan Project located?
A) Arizona
B) New Mexico
C) California
D) Texas
  • 57. Why were all people of Japenese descent who lived on the west Coast put in internment camps?
A) Some people thought Japanese Americans living on the West Coast might give information or help to Japan during the war.
B) The government did not want Japanese soldiers to kidnap Japanese Americans.
C) The government wanted to keep Japanese Americans safe from attacks by other Americans
D) Hitler ordered the US government to do it
  • 58. What ended World War II in Japan?
A) The surrender of German armies
B) The attack on Pearl Harbor
C) Dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
D) Dropping atomic bombs on Germany and Italy
  • 59. What did the war do for New Mexico’s economy?
A) It created jobs for New Mexicans, and many cities in New Mexico grew.
B) It caused more people to lose their jobs
C) t only created jobs for women and children New Mexico.
D) It increased debt and caused more businesses to close.
  • 60. What war began at the end of World War II?
A) The Vietnam War
B) World War III
C) The Cold War
D) The Korean War
  • 61. What two wars were part of the Cold War?
A) World War II and the Pearl Harbor War
B) The Iraq and Afghanistan wars
C) The Korean and Vietnam wars
D) The Vietnam War and World War III
  • 62. Which of the following is not true regarding New Mexico’s contributions during the Cold War?
A) New Mexican laboratories invented nuclear bombs, missiles, and other important weapons.
B) The New Mexican government would only allow missiles to be tested in New Mexico but refused to test bombs in the state.
C) Bombs and weapons were invented and tested in New Mexico.
D) Air bases and tunnels in New Mexico were used to store atomic bombs.
  • 63. Who participated in the arms race and space race?
A) The United States and Japan
B) The United States and the Soviet Union
C) The Soviet Union and Germany
D) The United States and Germany
  • 64. What brought more people to New Mexico during the Cold War?
A) The promise of greater wealth by working for the Soviet government
B) Job opportunities in the military, national labs, and mining industries
C) Many people knew New Mexico had plenty of land to hide from Communists
D) Tourism
  • 65. What was the Civil Rights Movement?
A) The time period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Vietnam War
B) The title of the famous speech given by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) The efforts of blacks to challenge the discrimination they faced in parts of New Mexico and across the country
D) The efforts of white people in New Mexico to give the black and Hispanic populations equal rights
  • 66. What was the goal of La Alianza?
A) To allow Hispanic students to speak Spanish in school
B) To get better working conditions for farm workers
C) To give more land to the U.S. government
D) To reclaim lost land grants
  • 67. Why did the Pueblo Indians fight for ownership of Blue Lake?
A) Because they wanted to find treasure their ancestors had buried in it
B) Because it was an important place of worship for their tribe and helped to preserve their culture.
C) Because the U.S. government was using it as a storage site for garbage
D) Because they wanted to give it to the Hispanic people
  • 68. What is considered New Mexico’s number-one problem?
A) Excess water
B) Water shortage
C) Land shortage
D) A lack of government leadership
  • 69. Why does government exist?
A) To force citizens to obey laws
B) To take away the people’s rights
C) To settle disputes between neighbors
D) To promote the public good
  • 70. Which of the following governments is not supported in the U.S. and New Mexico constitutions?
A) Provincial
B) Federal
C) Tribal
D) Local
  • 71. Which of the following statements is true?
A) You have responsibilities because of your rights.
B) You have no rights or responsibilities.
C) You have rights with no responsibilities.
D) You have responsibilities with no rights.
  • 72. Which of the following is not a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights ?
A) Trial by Jury
B) Freedom of Speech
C) Choice of Judge
D) Freedom of Religion
  • 73. What are the three branches of government?
A) Legislative, general, judicial
B) Legislative, executive, general
C) Legislative, executive, judicial
D) General, executive, judicial
  • 74. Which document outlines the structure and function of the state legislature?
A) The Federalist Papers
B) The New Mexico Constitution
C) The Declaration of Independence
D) The U.S. Constitution
  • 75. Who determines the structure and function of tribal government?
A) New Mexico’s state government
B) The federal government
C) Each Indian tribe
D) The Supreme Court
  • 76. What is critical to the success of a democratic society?
A) Unfair voting restrictions
B) New laws to discuss
C) Disagreements
D) Sound leadership
  • 77. Which is not an example of trade?
A) Buying lunch
B) Taking something without paying for it
C) Exchanging your old hoodie for your friend’s baseball cap
D) Selling your old bicycle
  • 78. What is the most widely accepted form of exchange in most countries?
A) money
B) gold and silver
C) begging
D) batering
  • 79. Which of the following is not something that banks do?
A) Provide loans for people
B) Pay people interest for keeping money in the bank
C) Help people manage their money
D) Use your money to go on vacations
  • 80. What is a free enterprise market system?
A) An economic system where the governor determines value and price
B) An economic system where all goods and services are free of charge
C) An economic system completely controlled by the government
D) An economic system where supply and demand determine value and price
  • 81. What other economic systems are found in New Mexico?
A) Traditional economies
B) Animal-powered economies
C) Tribal economies
D) Command economies
  • 82. Our free enterprise system directly impacts decisions at all of the following levels of government except:
A) Tribal government
B) Local government
C) State government
D) Provincial government
  • 83. Relying on others to make products we need in exchange for the products we specialize in is:
A) interdependence
B) specialization
C) cultural awareness
D) economic sharing
  • 84. What does tourism do for our state’s economy?
A) it helps the economy
B) it hurts the economy
C) there is no tourism in NM
D) it does not impact the economy
  • 85. Which resource do we not have enough of to meet our needs?
A) coal
B) water
C) bread
D) chilies
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