Which of the Following Statements Regarding Hispanic New Mexico Is

question 103

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?

• A) At the time of the Mexican War, Hispanics greatly outnumbered Anglo-Americans.
• B) The Spanish had had settlements in the area since the seventeenth century.
• C) Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.
• D) By the 1870s, the government of New Mexico was dominated by "territorial rings" of Anglo business people and politicians.
• E) Descendants of the original settlers engaged primarily in cattle and sheep ranching.

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Definitions:

Production Function

A formula that specifies the output generated by a firm from varying combinations of factor inputs.

Marginal Cost

The supplementary expense incurred by fabricating one more unit of a product or service.

Diminishing Returns

An economic principle stating that as investment in a particular area increases, the rate of profit from that investment, after a certain point, cannot continue to increase if other variables remain constant.

Cobb-Douglas Production Function

Production function of the form q = AK^aL^b, where q is the rate of output, K is the quantity of capital, and L is the quantity of labor, and where A, a, and b are constants.