NM HISTORY CHAPTER 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Mexican-American War
(1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States
acquired one half of the Mexican territory.
Revolt of 1847
An uprising of New Mexican rebels during the Mexican-American War who did not want
NM to be a part of the US
Geronimo
Apache leader who fought U.S. soldiers to keep his land. He led a revolt of 4,000 of his
people after they were forced to move to a reservation in Arizona.
ceded
give up (power or territory)
Protocol of Queretaro
Land owners had to prove land ownership
Compromise of 1850
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah
and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal
assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave
law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Bosque Redondo
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
Mexican-American War
(1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States
acquired one half of the Mexican territory.
Revolt of 1847
An uprising of New Mexican rebels during the Mexican-American War who did not want
NM to be a part of the US
Geronimo
Apache leader who fought U.S. soldiers to keep his land. He led a revolt of 4,000 of his
people after they were forced to move to a reservation in Arizona.
ceded
give up (power or territory)
Protocol of Queretaro
Land owners had to prove land ownership
Compromise of 1850
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah
and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal
assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave
law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Bosque Redondo
