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Greer 4 & 5
Greer Vocab 4&5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 19th amendment | guarantees women the right to vote |
| ratified | sign or give formal consent to (a treaty contract or agreement) Making it officially valid |
| civil rights | the advancement of equality for all people regardless of race, gender age disability national origin religion or certain other characteristics |
| All pueblo council | 20 governors of these sovereign pueblo nations of new mexico and Texas vested in making life better for all our pueblo people and ensuring that the bursum bill didn't pass |
| blue lake | sacred to Taos pueblo Indians and returned to them by president Nixon in 1970 |
| 18th amendment | amendment prohibiting the manufacture transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. |
| prohibition | a time period in the united states with the prevention by law of manufacture and sale of alcohol especially in the US between 1920 and 1933 |
| repeal | the action of revoking of annulling a law of congressional act |
| migrant | people who move from one place to another typically in search of work |
| new deal | a goal to end depression created by FDR included relief jobs and refunds |
| great depression | a long period of economic decline in the 1930's |
| john collier | head of the bureau of Indian affairs who introduced the Indian New Deala nd pushed congress to pass Indian reorginization act |
| Taylor Grazing ac | john colliers plan to reduce the number of livestock on Indian lands in an attempt to stop overgrazing |
| indian reorganization act | an attempt to restore self govern to the tribes of NM more than 179 tribes vote to accept. |
| franklin delano roosevelt | present from 1932-1944 during the great depression and into WWII. known for his new deal. |
| bursum bill | law that gave more of NM pueblo lands to non indians |