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