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