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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Japanese
Appomattox Court
Chronological order of the colonies
Anasazi culture
2. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
French and Indian War
1850
initiative
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
3. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
Chronological order of the colonies
England and the colonies: differences
Land Commission
Constitutional Convention
4. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Yorktown
Johann Sutter
Second Constitutional Congress
water
5. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Japanese
Democratic Republicans
Commodore Sloat
6. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Central Valley Project
rights of the federal government
Hernando Cortes
Maryland
7. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Yorktown
Stamp Tax
water
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
8. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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9. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Russians
issue of representation under the Constitution
Sugar Act
Central Pacific Railroad
10. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Mt. Whitney
Mayflower Compact
separation of powers
Dust Bowl
11. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
the conquistadores
1850
water
separation of powers
12. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Progressives
Constitutional Convention
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
French and Indian War
13. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Chronological order of the colonies
rancho system
Immigration Act of 1965
William Penn
14. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Gentleman's Agreement
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
secession
15. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
The Declaration of Independence
Tea Act of 1773
Three - Fifths Compromise
Gold
16. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
executive branch
California
melting pot
General Stockton
17. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Germans
Transcontinental Railroad
General Stockton
Sugar Act
18. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Mexican - American War
Election of 1876
Hernando Cortes
Bill of Rights
19. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Bear Flag Revolt
Second Constitutional Congress
Compromise of 1850
the Oregon Territory
20. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Lewis and Clark
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
sacred expedition
Important Battles of the Revolution
21. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
legislative branch
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Hernando Cortez
Juan Cabrillo
22. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
French and Indian War
forty - niners
Transcontinental Railroad
First Continental Congress
23. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Immigration Act of 1965
The Maya Empire
Samuel de Champlain
Georgia
24. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Pony Express
John C. Fremont
loose construction
Chinese
25. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Panama Canal
Central Valley
Mexican - American War
Trenton
26. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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27. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
The Great Basin
Francisco Montejo
Jacksonian democracy
Mexican Independence
28. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Chinese
sacred expedition
Battle of Gettysberg
Confederacy advanage
29. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Whig Party
The Declaration of Independence
Ten Percent Plan
Anasazi culture
30. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Silicon Valley
The Piedmont
Germans
31. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
reasons of American immigration
Hernando Cortez
Germans
Great Awakening
32. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
recall
Central Pacific Railroad
Olmec Empire
Modoc War
33. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
anti - federalists
Pueblo Indians
World War II
Stamp Tax
34. In the eastern region of the United States
Mexican - American War
Revolutionary War
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
the conquistadores
35. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Hiram Johnson
separation of powers
Silicon Valley
Salton Sea
36. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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37. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Chinese
internment camps
Democratic Republicans
the Great Compromise
38. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Rhode Island
Jacksonian democracy
acorns
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
39. Lincoln's vice president became president
Andrew Johnson
Francisco Montejo
squatters
The Maya Empire
40. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Balboa
Father Fermin Lausen
General Stockton
Jacksonian democracy
41. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Mexican Independence
Central Pacific Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
42. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Maryland
Pueblo Indians
Great Awakening
43. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
John C. Fremont
Whig Party
Amerindians
44. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
referendum
Connecticut Commonwealth
45. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
merchant Sam Brannon
Rhode Island
Irish
Amerindians
46. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Jamestown
acorns
Jacksonian democracy
Appomattox Court
47. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Constitutional Convention
Russians
judicial branch
Mexicans
48. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Articles of Confederation
Three - Fifths Compromise
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Sir Francis Drake
49. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Emanciptation Proclomation
William Penn
Important Battles of the Revolution
decline of the Mayan civlization
50. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Constitutional Convention
Mississippian culture
William Penn
Federalist Papers