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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. 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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2. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
issue of representation under the Constitution
Federalist Party
judicial branch
Prevailing Westerlies
3. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Europeans in the New World: Britain
General Stockton
Dust Bowl
The Industrial Era of the United States
4. 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
railroad
Russians
The Industrial Era of the United States
The Aztec Empire
5. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
Prevailing Westerlies
missions
Pony Express
Mississippian culture
6. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
Mexican - American War
Sugar Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
7. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
The Aztec Empire
Transcontinental Railroad
Pilgrims
World War II
8. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Central Pacific Railroad
Rodney Case
executive branch
9. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
loose construction
secession
The Mississippi River
10. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Pueblo Indians
apparel industry
Sebastian Cermeno
11. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi
Progressives
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Rodney Case
England and the colonies: differences
12. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
Immigration Act of 1965
Constitutional Convention
entertainment
13. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
First Continental Congress
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mayflower Compact
New Government
14. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed
Pony Express
Sir Francis Drake
Trenton
Japanese
15. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Europeans in the New World: France
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Magnuson Act of 1943
Progressives
16. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
November 1849
Delaware
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
17. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Federalist Papers
Owens River
Important Battles of the Revolution
The Industrial Era of the United States
18. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Commodore Sloat
Proposition 13
squatters
Progressives
19. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Henry Hudson
referendum
Russians
November 1849
20. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
the Great Compromise
missions
tule
21. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Germans
The Gulf Stream
Proposition 13
Emanciptation Proclomation
22. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Amendments
Sebastian Cermeno
recall
23. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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24. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
England and the colonies: differences
Thirteenth Amendment
Pony Express
25. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: France
pueblos
Constitution
26. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
California
The Gulf Stream
manifest destiny
Henry Hudson
27. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
The Inca Empire
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Bill of Rights
28. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Chinese
Appomattox Court
Watts Riots
Jacques Cartier
29. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Railroad Act of 1864
Mt. Whitney
The interior
Confederacy advanage
30. Republican Rutherford Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden run for President. Hayes promises to end the Reconstruction and allows Southern staets to establish the black codes. Caused the end of the Reconstruction in 1877
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Election of 1876
Modoc War
Sebastian Cermeno
31. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
Toltecs
Trenton
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
hydraulic mining -
32. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Chinese
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Okies
Europeans in the New World: Britain
33. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
The Appalachian Mountains
1850
Chronological order of the colonies
Mayflower Compact
34. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
First Continental Congress
Exeter Compact
hydraulic mining -
Gold
35. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Europeans in the New World
separation of powers
Jose de Galves
Andrew Johnson
36. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Mexican Independence
Juan Cabrillo
Confederacy advanage
Missouri Compromise of 1820
37. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Japanese
Rhode Island
Samuel de Champlain
Federalist Papers
38. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Rodney Case
Central Pacific Railroad
Hopewell people
39. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Lewis and Clark
Sebastian Cermeno
Three - Fifths Compromise
Watts Riots
40. Lincoln's vice president became president
Trenton
Samuel de Champlain
Andrew Johnson
federalism
41. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
Gold
Stamp Tax
missions
42. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
acorns
Prevailing Westerlies
apparel industry
Connecticut Commonwealth
43. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
Confederacy advanage
England and the colonies: similarities
New Government
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
44. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Modoc War
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Magnuson Act of 1943
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
45. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Andrew Johnson
rights of the federal government
Maryland
Declaration of Independence
46. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
loose construction
sacred expedition
Samuel de Champlain
Important Battles of the Revolution
47. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
The interior
Jacksonian democracy
Jamestown
decline of the Mayan civlization
48. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mexican American War
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
49. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
apparel industry
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Radical Republicans
The Continental Divide
50. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
Important Battles of the Revolution
Thirteenth Amendment
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla