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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Gold
Bill of Rights
Constitution
Death Valley
2. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Whig Party
railroad
Francisco Pizarro
John C. Fremont
3. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
General Stockton
Federalist Party
the Great Compromise
Mono Lake
4. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Proclamation of 1763
Europeans in the New World: Britain
The Declaration of Independence
Mexican Independence
5. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Andrew Johnson
melting pot
6. 1776 Written by Thomas Jefferson - Based on the ideas of English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke - In Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government' (1690) - he set forth basic ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Progressives
The Declaration of Independence
World War II
loose construction
7. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
railroad
Hernando Cortez
General Stockton and General Kearney
apparel industry
8. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Delaware
water
aeorspace industry
Europeans in the New World: Spain
9. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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10. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
executive branch
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
The Aztec Empire
General Stockton
11. 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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12. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sugar Act
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Balboa
Whig Party
13. 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
legislative branch
Stamp Tax
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
14. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
Delaware
2002
Mexican American War
Bill of Rights
15. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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16. 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
Great Awakening
Thirteenth Amendment
Democratic Republicans
The Inca Empire
17. 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
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Chronological order of the colonies
presidios
18. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Germans
Mississippian culture
judicial branch
19. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
The Appalachian Mountains
railroad
Magnuson Act of 1943
The Industrial Era of the United States
20. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
French and Indian War
aeorspace industry
internment camps
forty - niners
21. 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 Declaration of Independence
Central Valley
Europeans in the New World: France
22. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Workingmen's Party
issue of representation under the Constitution
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Sierra Nevadas
23. 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
initiative
Central Pacific Railroad
Trenton
Constitution
24. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Sebastian Vicaino
Chinese
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The southeastern Coastal Plain
25. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Angel Island
Sir Francis Drake
Sebastian Vicaino
Appomattox Court
26. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
secession
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Balboa
World War II
27. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Germans
Jacksonian democracy
Radical Republicans
Prevailing Westerlies
28. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Quartering Act
Transcontinental Railroad
The Industrial Era of the United States
29. 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
Francisco Pizarro
black codes
apparel industry
Jose de Galves
30. 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
John C. Fremont
Hopewell people
The Inca Empire
Townsheld Acts of 1767
31. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
The Piedmont
Mexicans
sacred expedition
Chronological order of the colonies
32. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Mexicans
legislative branch
Transcontinental Railroad
Stamp Tax
33. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
Stamp Tax
Toltecs
recall
34. A major mountain range in California
Sierra Nevadas
Death Valley
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Dust Bowl
35. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Mt. Whitney
Dust Bowl
Andrew Johnson
36. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
entertainment
Lewis and Clark
Silicon Valley
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
37. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
The Continental Divide
Okies
Francisco Montejo
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
38. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
secession
Connecticut Commonwealth
Jamestown
railroad
39. 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
Watts Riots
Land Commission
Democratic Republicans
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
40. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Hiram Johnson
Sierra Nevadas
Railroad Act of 1864
The Great Basin
41. 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
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
tourism
War of 1812
England and the colonies: differences
42. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
southern anad eastern European
Jose de Galves
Gold
43. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
executive branch
legislative branch
entertainment
Chinese
44. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Sebastian Vicaino
Amerindians
45. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Stamp Tax
Louisiana Purchase
acorns
46. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
John C. Fremont
Thirteenth Amendment
tule
England and the colonies: similarities
47. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
missions
Gold
Death Valley
Maryland
48. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Dust Bowl
Progressives
Mississippian culture
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
49. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
England and the colonies: differences
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mexican American War
50. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
forty - niners
Mexican Independence
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Sir Francis Drake