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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Intolerable Acts of 1774
reasons of American immigration
apparel industry
Democratic Republicans
2. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
the conquistadores
Bear Flag Revolt
Proposition 13
Articles of Confederation
3. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Radical Republicans
Appomattox Court
Battle of Gettysberg
Missouri Compromise of 1820
4. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Amerindians
The Appalachian Mountains
5. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Land Commission
Japanese
apparel industry
Townsheld Acts of 1767
6. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
William Penn
The Aztec Empire
tule
The Gulf Stream
7. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
entertainment
Sugar Act
New Government
Pony Express
8. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Sir Francis Drake
Jacques Cartier
Second Constitutional Congress
9. Facilities that the Spanish used to turned to the Indians to establish agricultural fields and learned Christianity. natives also were exposed to disease that they don't have immunity to. Also - brought olive trees and orange trees and introduced whe
Francisco Montejo
missions
Ten Percent Plan
Magnuson Act of 1943
10. 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
General Stockton and General Kearney
Central Valley Project
separation of powers
Proclamation of 1763
11. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
judicial branch
Panama Canal
how Union defeated Confederates
The Appalachian Mountains
12. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Pony Express
Father Fermin Lausen
Samuel de Champlain
Mississippian culture
13. 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
internment camps
Father Fermin Lausen
Revolutionary War
England and the colonies: differences
14. The lowest point in California
acorns
Central Valley
Death Valley
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
15. 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
Tea Act of 1773
Juan Cabrillo
Compromise of 1850
Transcontinental Railroad
16. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Pilgrims
Salton Sea
Important Battles of the Revolution
17. 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
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
hydraulic mining -
War of 1812
Georgia
18. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Thirteenth Amendment
Railroad Act of 1864
Japanese
how Union defeated Confederates
19. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Olmec Empire
Gold
Europeans in the New World: Spain
20. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
railroad
Hopewell people
Father Junipero Serra
21. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
secession
melting pot
William Penn
federalism
22. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
nullification
Dust Bowl
Connecticut Commonwealth
23. Central California native American tribes
Three - Fifths Compromise
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
William Penn
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
24. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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25. 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
World War II
water
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
missions
26. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Toltecs
water
Juan Cabrillo
27. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
the Great Compromise
Amendments
General Stockton
presidios
28. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
secession
legislative branch
Olmec Empire
Articles of Confederation
29. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
rancho system
French and Indian War
Puritans
Olmec Empire
30. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
internment camps
Gentleman's Agreement
Three - Fifths Compromise
Hernando Cortez
31. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
Gold
Great Awakening
Land Commission
32. 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
Chinese
England and the colonies: differences
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Election of 1876
33. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Gold
Whig Party
Constitutional Convention
entertainment
34. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Magnuson Act of 1943
how Union defeated Confederates
The Appalachian Mountains
The Mississippi River
35. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Angel Island
Radical Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Britain
free - soil movement
36. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Olmec Empire
tourism
Compromise of 1850
Declaration of Independence
37. 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 Gettysberg
Rodney Case
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Panama Canal
38. 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
missions
Pony Express
referendum
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
39. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Russians
Angel Island
The Piedmont
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
40. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Mexicans
Juan Cabrillo
tourism
Workingmen's Party
41. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Quartering Act
Toltecs
entertainment
Delaware
42. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
rights of states
England and the colonies: similarities
Jacques Cartier
Emanciptation Proclomation
43. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
New Government
Radical Republicans
Father Fermin Lausen
Mt. Whitney
44. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Andrew Johnson
Federalist Party
Father Junipero Serra
rights of the federal government
45. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Mexicans
Immigration Act of 1965
Union advantage
sacred expedition
46. 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
The Aztec Empire
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Compromise of 1850
Irish
47. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Ten Percent Plan
Maryland
Germans
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
48. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Germans
Mississippian culture
Townsheld Acts of 1767
49. 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
Intolerable Acts of 1774
executive branch
Immigration Act of 1965
Yorktown
50. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
2002
England and the colonies: similarities
Jacksonian democracy