New Mexico
By Bella
I did my state report on New Mexico because I love to ski and New Mexico has really big mountains. A cool fact about my state is they have the biggest hot air balloon in New Mexico!
State Symbols· The state bear is the black bear
· The state bird is the roadrunner, but they do not fly · The state flower is the Yucca · The state gem is the turquoise · The state inset is the tarantula hawk wasp · The state tree is the pinion · The state song is o friar New Mexico · The state flower in Spanish is called bayonet · The state vegetables Chile and frijol · The state nick name is the land of enchainment |
People Now the population is 2,082,224. The Census Bureau takes the new population every ten years.
Every fall in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Chef Robert Estrada finds fourteen people to make to best enchilada at the Whole Enchilada Fiesta. The Fiesta goes on for three days. They start the Fiesta on a Friday. This has been going on for 32 years. They had a 100th anniversary party to celebrate when New Mexico became the 47th State. |
History The Anasazi Indians lived in New Mexico (500 BC – 1200 AD) for about 1700 years. They built large villages for homes. The built their large villages on mesas. They lived in the San Juan River basin.
In 1200s, Navajo and Apache Indians tried to take land from the Pueblo Indians where they were lived for about one hundred years. In 1300, the Pueblo Indians used pottery, blankets, bricks and clay to make homes. Some of the different groups that lived there were the Pueblo, Zuni, Acoma, Hopi and Rio Grande Indians. In 1528 a man named Aluar Nanez Cabeza de Vaca led a group of men through Texas to New Mexico. At the time it was called New Spain, not New Mexico. In 1538, Fray Marcos de Niza went to go see what Caeza de Vaca saw. He came back to tell all the people what she saw. He saw a lot of great stuff. He went to the city called Seven Cities of Cibola. In 1609, the king of Spain made New Mexico a royal colony. Pedro De Pelarta was the first royal governor and made Santa Fe the capital. Roman Catholic priests made Indians work to be more like Christians. If some didn’t work hard enough they would punish the men or women even harder. Then in 1680, the Pueblo Indians kicked the Spanish out of their country. Even some who didn't want to go got killed. In 1692 New Mexico went back to war with the Spanish for four years. Then they came back to New Mexico and lived in peace. In 1821 Mexico got its freedom back from Spain. New Mexico was still a part of Mexico at that time. Then the government of New Mexico wanted to trade goods with the U.S. government. A lot of people went many places to trade goods in 1821. Captain William Blackwell opened a trail for people to walk on and trade goods. The trail went through Independence, Missouri then to Santa Fe. The U.S. government wanted all the land it could get in the southwest. This started a war because Mexico was mad that they wanted all the land. In 1850, New Mexico made James C. Calhoun the governor. Between 1862 and 1863 New Mexicans were fighting the Apache and the Navajo Indians because they wanted to live near the Pecos River. They fought for many years. The leader of the Indians made many attacks. In 1886, the leader let New Mexico have their land. In 1800, mining was a big thing. They found gold and silver. They found it in the Ozitz Mountains in 1828 and in the Pino Altos in 1860. They found silver in the southwestern mountains in 1869. A lot of towns became mining towns. In 1880 a train of settlers came to New Mexico to grow crops in many places. There was not a lot of rain so the farmers had to move and some got pipes to bring in water. New Mexico wanted to become a part of the U.S. Many Americans did not want New Mexico to become a part of the U.S. They did not want so many Spanish speaking people in the U.S. Then the government made New Mexico the 47th state on January 6, 1912. The population went up by 330,000 people. Then they elected a new governor, William C. McDonald. |
In New Mexico the weather is sunny, dry and mild. Some of the areas in New Mexico get 20 inches of snow and rain each year. In July temperatures can get up to 74° F. The temperature can drop very low in some months. In the southwest it can get colder than in other parts of New Mexico. In January, New Mexico gets little rain here and there and the temperature can be as low as 34° F.
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Geography The borders that make up New Mexico are Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Mexico. The capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe. Wheel Peak is a high point in New Mexico. There are four big rivers in New Mexico. They are called the Canadian River, Pecos River Elephant Butte and Rio Grande River. All of the mountains are north in New Mexico. New Mexico’s most important and biggest river is Rio Grande.
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Economy and Resources People who visit New Mexico come to see Pueblo Indian history. New Mexico made two billion dollars from people coming to visit.
New Mexico is one of the best states for mining. It earns up to six billion dollars a year. The minerals that they find are potash, uranium, coal and copper. New Mexico has 16,000 farms. Cattle ranching is one of the most popular jobs in New Mexico. New Mexico is home to 1.7 million cattle. New Mexico biggest crops are hay, Chile peppers and pecans. Water is very important resource in New Mexico because it is very dry. The state shares with other states and Mexico to use streams and rivers. A lot of scientists come to New Mexico to work on projects. They go to work on projects at Los Alomos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory to test nuclear weapons. Some Air Force bases in New Mexico are Holloman and Cannon Air Force bases. |
Government The New Mexico Constitution was adopted in 1911. The Constitution had been amended about 100 times. All of the laws in New Mexico have to be published in Spanish and English.
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Bomb The first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico at the White Sand Desert on July 16 1945.
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Bibliography
"New Mexico." CultureGrams States Edition. ProQuest, 2013. Web. 18 Jan 2013.
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Picture SourcesPicture of lake from http://www.nature.org/idc/groups/webcontent/@web/@newmexico/documents/media/new-mexico-climate-change-490x.jpg
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Picture of Welcome to New Mexico - http://thejointblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/welcome.jpg
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