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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Jose Figueroa
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Inca Empire
Mexican - American War
2. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
The Great Basin
Hopewell people
Rhode Island
federalism
3. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
loose construction
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
4. 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
Election of 1876
The Aztec Empire
Europeans in the New World
rancho system
5. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Jose Figueroa
Proposition 13
apparel industry
Mexican - American War
6. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
tourism
The Aztec Empire
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
7. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
War of 1812
Johann Sutter
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Dust Bowl
8. Drains the interior of the United States
Revolutionary War
The Mississippi River
Mt. Whitney
Andrew Johnson
9. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
Hernando Cortez
The Mississippi River
loose construction
10. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
The Aztec Empire
merchant Sam Brannon
Francisco Montejo
Radical Republicans
11. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Ten Percent Plan
Land Commission
General Stockton
Delaware
12. 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
Three - Fifths Compromise
judicial branch
Tea Act of 1773
Missouri Compromise of 1820
13. 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
John C. Fremont
Pony Express
War of 1812
Okies
14. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
General Stockton and General Kearney
The Inca Empire
nullification
Russians
15. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
England and the colonies: similarities
pueblos
Sir Francis Drake
apparel industry
16. 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
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
secession
Confederacy advanage
Constitution
17. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
anti - federalists
sacred expedition
Hernando Cortez
The Industrial Era of the United States
18. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Sierra Nevadas
Intolerable Acts of 1774
tule
Election of 1876
19. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Jacksonian democracy
loose construction
Mexicans
The Maya Empire
20. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Francisco Pizarro
Mexican American War
21. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Japanese
Proposition 13
Jose de Galves
Mexican American War
22. 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
Gold
November 1849
Sierra Nevadas
Ten Percent Plan
23. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
England and the colonies: similarities
Maryland
Toltecs
Federalist Party
24. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Mexican - American War
Lewis and Clark
Exeter Compact
federalism
25. 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
acorns
Federalist Papers
Modoc War
Workingmen's Party
26. The two major deserts in California
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Appomattox Court
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
27. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
Second Constitutional Congress
California
Hernando Cortes
Appomattox Court
28. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Trenton
manifest destiny
merchant Sam Brannon
The Chinese Exclusion Act
29. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Constitution
Father Junipero Serra
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Hiram Johnson
30. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Rodney Case
black codes
Death Valley
31. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Jacksonian democracy
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Silicon Valley
32. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
Chinese
Francisco Pizarro
Samuel de Champlain
33. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
Connecticut Commonwealth
sacred expedition
England and the colonies: similarities
34. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Proposition 13
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
35. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Germans
Railroad Act of 1864
nullification
Silicon Valley
36. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
Proclamation of 1763
Death Valley
presidios
Henry Hudson
37. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Sierra Nevadas
French and Indian War
entertainment
Silicon Valley
38. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Magnuson Act of 1943
Mississippian culture
Thirteenth Amendment
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
39. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
Appomattox Court
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
melting pot
40. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
French and Indian War
water
Japanese
Okies
41. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Major battles of the Civil War
Mexican - American War
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Death Valley
42. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Mexican Independence
Stamp Tax
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
manifest destiny
43. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
French and Indian War
tourism
William Penn
Jose Figueroa
44. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Georgia
Transcontinental Railroad
1850
45. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
southern anad eastern European
loose construction
The interior
1850
46. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
legislative branch
recall
internment camps
Commodore Sloat
47. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Immigration Act of 1965
Mississippian culture
Emanciptation Proclomation
Modoc War
48. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Francisco Pizarro
Mississippian culture
Election of 1876
Battle of Gettysberg
49. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Hetch Hetchy Dam
First Continental Congress
Angel Island
Appomattox Court
50. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Mississippian culture
tourism
Proposition 13
The Piedmont