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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. 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
Silicon Valley
Andrew Johnson
recall
Commodore Sloat
3. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
First Continental Congress
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Sebastian Cermeno
Union advantage
4. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
John C. Fremont
Central Valley Project
how Union defeated Confederates
rancho system
5. 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
Federalist Party
General Stockton and General Kearney
England and the colonies: similarities
6. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Central Valley Project
Major battles of the Civil War
Transcontinental Railroad
Henry Hudson
7. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
rancho system
Silicon Valley
Lewis and Clark
8. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Dust Bowl
judicial branch
Germans
Okies
9. 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
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
the conquistadores
Angel Island
Pony Express
10. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
black codes
Panama Canal
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
11. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
decline of the Mayan civlization
reasons of American immigration
Father Fermin Lausen
Anasazi culture
12. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Chinese
Battle of Gettysberg
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
First Continental Congress
13. 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
black codes
sacred expedition
New Government
forty - niners
14. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
manifest destiny
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
legislative branch
executive branch
15. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
pueblos
Radical Republicans
Japanese
16. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Amerindians
internment camps
Sebastian Vicaino
General Stockton
17. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Prevailing Westerlies
Bill of Rights
Depression of 1870
Magnuson Act of 1943
18. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
Europeans in the New World: France
Pilgrims
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
19. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
California
Olmec Empire
Land Commission
20. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Georgia
Great Awakening
'strict construction'
Bill of Rights
21. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
Emanciptation Proclomation
Workingmen's Party
Declaration of Independence
22. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hopewell people
The Piedmont
Hernando Cortez
The Gulf Stream
23. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Hernando Cortes
Toltecs
Major battles of the Civil War
24. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
The Continental Divide
Mexicans
water
recall
25. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
Chinese
Immigration Act of 1965
Mayflower Compact
Gold
26. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Lewis and Clark
Salton Sea
Compromise of 1850
Francisco Montejo
27. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
Amerindians
The Continental Divide
reasons of American immigration
28. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Amerindians
manifest destiny
French and Indian War
Watts Riots
29. 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
Russians
Important Battles of the Revolution
Andrew Johnson
30. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
issue of representation under the Constitution
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
the conquistadores
Louisiana Purchase
31. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
California Alien Land Act
Samuel de Champlain
Salton Sea
Confederacy advanage
32. 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
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Henry Hudson
Amerindians
33. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
William Penn
The Mississippi River
rights of states
the Great Compromise
34. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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35. 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
Sierra Nevadas
The Inca Empire
Gentleman's Agreement
Japanese
36. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
Chronological order of the colonies
Bill of Rights
The Mississippi River
forty - niners
37. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Gold
Hiram Johnson
Stamp Tax
1850
38. 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
French and Indian War
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World
Mayflower Compact
39. 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
California Alien Land Act
The Continental Divide
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Jose de Galves
40. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
squatters
Watts Riots
Amendments
41. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Ten Percent Plan
Central Valley Project
melting pot
Lewis and Clark
42. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
Articles of Confederation
Immigration Act of 1965
The Continental Divide
Pueblo Indians
43. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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44. 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
Confederacy advanage
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
separation of powers
45. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Angel Island
federalism
free - soil movement
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
46. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Angel Island
Rhode Island
Appomattox Court
Transcontinental Railroad
47. People who took land from the original Californios
separation of powers
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
squatters
Bill of Rights
48. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
pueblos
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Delaware
Proposition 13
49. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Confederacy advanage
presidios
Pueblo Indians
acorns
50. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Hernando Cortez
California
Mexican - American War
Sir Francis Drake