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🌶️New Mexico History
Key Terms

257 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your New Mexico History exam

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A

Acequia farming
Acequia system
Acoma Massacre
Acoma Pueblo
Ada McPherson Morley
Aldo Leopold
Alfred V. Kidder
Alianza Federal de Mercedes
Ancestral Lands
Anglo Migration
Anglo-American Traders
Anti-nuclear activism
Apache Dialects
Apache spirituality
Apache Wars
Assimilation pressures
Atomic Energy Act
Atomic Energy Commission

B

Basin and Range Province
Basketmaker Period
Battle of Acoma
Battle of Las Salinas
Battle of Valverde
Bilingual Multicultural Education Act
Black-on-white pottery
Bosque redondo reservation

C

Carlsbad Caverns
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Chaco Canyon
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Chetro Ketl
Cheyenne
Chicana feminists
Chicano Moratorium
Chicano Studies
Chihuahuan Desert
Cimarron Cutoff
Civilian Conservation Corps
Classic Mimbres Period
Colonial history
Colonial oppression
Colorado Plateau
Comanche
Communal land grant system
Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven
Confederate Invasion Orders
Confederate Retreat
Corn dance
Criollos
Cultural blending
Cultural Fusion
Cultural hybridity
Cultural Survival

D

Deb Haaland
Defense contracts
Dennis Chavez
Diego de Vargas
Diné bikéyah
Diné bizaad
Displacement of hispanic landowners
Dream Act in New Mexico
Dry farming
Dryland farming
Día de los muertos

E

Early pithouse
Españoles

F

Fat Man
First New Mexico Volunteers
Folk art
Forced relocation
Fort Sumner
Fort Union National Monument
Four Corners Region
Franciscan Order
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado