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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Immigration Act of 1965
The Gulf Stream
The Maya Empire
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
2. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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3. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
Sebastian Cermeno
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Gold
4. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
William Penn
Amerindians
Mayflower Compact
tourism
5. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
General Stockton
Major battles of the Civil War
Mono Lake
6. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Russians
Salton Sea
Modoc War
Emanciptation Proclomation
7. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
The Chinese Exclusion Act
entertainment
World War II
Gold
8. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
manifest destiny
separation of powers
Important Battles of the Revolution
Henry Hudson
9. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
how Union defeated Confederates
Prevailing Westerlies
Battle of Gettysberg
The Chinese Exclusion Act
10. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
The Inca Empire
forty - niners
Amerindians
11. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
reasons of American immigration
The Appalachian Mountains
tourism
12. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Railroad Act of 1864
Father Fermin Lausen
referendum
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
13. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
how Union defeated Confederates
Democratic Republicans
apparel industry
14. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
Balboa
November 1849
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Jamestown
15. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
French and Indian War
Thirteenth Amendment
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Germans
16. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Georgia
Rodney Case
Workingmen's Party
Mexican - American War
17. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Puritans
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Bill of Rights
General Stockton and General Kearney
18. The central agricultural area of California
New Government
Central Valley
Union advantage
Missouri Compromise of 1820
19. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
The interior
Federalist Papers
apparel industry
tourism
20. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Immigration Act of 1965
Europeans in the New World: France
John C. Fremont
First Continental Congress
21. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Connecticut Commonwealth
Sir Francis Drake
The Industrial Era of the United States
Hopewell people
22. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
Depression of 1870
how Union defeated Confederates
decline of the Mayan civlization
23. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
recall
The Inca Empire
Johann Sutter
24. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Appomattox Court
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mexicans
forty - niners
25. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
The Industrial Era of the United States
Tea Act of 1773
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Whig Party
26. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
sacred expedition
water
Yorktown
the Great Compromise
27. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Second Constitutional Congress
Germans
Bill of Rights
French and Indian War
28. 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
Irish
Samuel de Champlain
Intolerable Acts of 1774
entertainment
29. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Magnuson Act of 1943
sacred expedition
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Jamestown
30. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Gentleman's Agreement
31. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
The Great Basin
Immigration Act of 1965
Bill of Rights
Europeans in the New World: France
32. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
World War II
Election of 1876
Whig Party
Olmec Empire
33. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Jose Figueroa
Chronological order of the colonies
California
34. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Central Valley Project
federalism
Jose Figueroa
Pilgrims
35. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
William Penn
Sebastian Cermeno
secession
Hopewell people
36. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Modoc War
Ten Percent Plan
judicial branch
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
37. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
missions
California Alien Land Act
Quartering Act
1850
38. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
California Alien Land Act
Bear Flag Revolt
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Depression of 1870
39. A major mountain range in California
Amendments
Sierra Nevadas
The Great Basin
judicial branch
40. An era fueled by availabliity of a cheap labor pool in the form of recent immigrants. Newly built factories attracted even more immigrants to the states
Louisiana Purchase
Emanciptation Proclomation
Progressives
The Industrial Era of the United States
41. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
the Oregon Territory
Appomattox Court
Amerindians
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
42. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
Bill of Rights
The Appalachian Mountains
French and Indian War
Panama Canal
43. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states
Revolutionary War
Second Constitutional Congress
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Constitution
44. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
'strict construction'
The Industrial Era of the United States
John C. Fremont
Constitutional Convention
45. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Owens River
Stamp Tax
Jacksonian democracy
legislative branch
46. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
nullification
Amendments
Railroad Act of 1864
Panama Canal
47. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Louisiana Purchase
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
The interior
The Inca Empire
48. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Mt. Whitney
Panama Canal
the conquistadores
49. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
the Oregon Territory
Okies
Olmec Empire
50. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Silicon Valley
Bear Flag Revolt
Central Valley
Japanese