New Mexico
Quick History Of New Mexico
History.I.1-A.1 STRAND:
History Content Standard I:
Students are able to identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in New Mexico, United States, and world history in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.
Benchmark 1-A:
New Mexico: analyze how people and events of New Mexico have influenced United States and world history since statehood:
Compare and contrast the relationships over time of Native American tribes in New Mexico with other cultures.
Specifications:
● Understand reasoning and impact of Indian boarding schools
● Identify events associated with the passage of bills and laws that impacted Native Americans
Analyze the geographic, economic, social and political factors of New Mexico that impact United States and world history, to include:
a. land grant and treaty issues unresolved to present day and continuing to impact relations between and among citizens at the state, tribal and federal government levels;
b. role of water issues as they relate to development of industry, population growth, historical issues and current acequia systems/water organizations;
d. role of the federal government (e.g., military bases, national laboratories, national parks, Indian reservations, transportation systems, water projects);
e. unique role of New Mexico in the 21st century as a “minority majority” state.
Specifications:
● Understand how land grants were established, the Santa Fe Ring, problems with proving ownership of a land grant; Reies Lopez Tijerina, La Alianza Federal de Mercedes
● Analyze the case of Mt. Taylor uranium mining in light of the Natural Historic Preservation Act of 1966
● Identify the primary effect of the Indian Reorganization Act
Analyze the role and impact of New Mexico and New Mexicans in World War II (e.g., Navajo code talkers, New Mexico national guard, internment camps, Manhattan project, Bataan death march)
Analyze the impact of the arts, sciences and technology of New Mexico since World War II (e.g., artists, cultural artifacts, nuclear weapons, the arms race, technological advances, scientific developments, high-tech industries, federal laboratories)
Benchmark 2-E:
analyze and evaluate how economic, political, cultural and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations and their interdependence, cooperation and conflict:
Analyze the factors influencing economic activities (e.g., mining, ranching, agriculture, tribal gaming, tourism, high tech) that have resulted in New Mexico’s population growth;
Specifications:
● Identify economic and industrial activities in different geographic areas of the state
● Analyze information found on charts or graphs
Compare and contrast the structure and powers of New Mexico’s government as expressed in the New Mexico constitution with that of the United States constitution, to include: direct democracy in the initiative, referendum and recall process; impeachment process; process of voter registration and voting; role of primary elections to nominate candidates; how a bill becomes a law; executive officers and their respective powers; New Mexico courts, appointment of judges, and election and retainment processes for judges; organization of county and municipal governments;
Specifications:
● Identify basic structure, functions, and responsibilities of state legislative, executive, and judicial branches
● Identify county and municipal governments and their basic organization and functions
● Identify unique features of the N.M. Constitution (i.e., bilingual state, equality in education and religious practice)
Describe and analyze the powers and responsibilities (including the concept of legitimate power) of local, state, tribal and national governments.