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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Amendments
Central Valley Project
2002
England and the colonies: differences
2. 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
John C. Fremont
Election of 1876
Second Constitutional Congress
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
3. The two major deserts in California
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Emanciptation Proclomation
Owens River
4. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Federalist Papers
The southeastern Coastal Plain
5. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Land Commission
Hopewell people
Jacksonian democracy
6. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Death Valley
Democratic Republicans
Hernando Cortes
internment camps
7. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Bear Flag Revolt
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
General Stockton
The Gulf Stream
8. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Three - Fifths Compromise
World War II
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Rodney Case
9. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Jose Figueroa
issue of representation under the Constitution
California Alien Land Act
General Stockton and General Kearney
10. 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
Jose de Galves
Yorktown
Proclamation of 1763
Depression of 1870
11. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
John C. Fremont
French and Indian War
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
12. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
Russians
initiative
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Central Pacific Railroad
13. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Democratic Republicans
Pilgrims
Delaware
melting pot
14. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Union advantage
Dust Bowl
Proclamation of 1763
Louisiana Purchase
15. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Proclamation of 1763
rights of the federal government
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
internment camps
16. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Owens River
merchant Sam Brannon
French and Indian War
Pony Express
17. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Bill of Rights
Union advantage
Juan Cabrillo
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
18. 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
Mexicans
Emanciptation Proclomation
loose construction
19. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
railroad
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
The Gulf Stream
California
20. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
World War II
apparel industry
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Federalist Papers
21. 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
tourism
Articles of Confederation
Trenton
Andrew Johnson
22. 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
Sebastian Cermeno
Constitutional Convention
Louisiana Purchase
23. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Mexican Independence
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Battle of Gettysberg
Ten Percent Plan
24. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Angel Island
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Hernando Cortez
Modoc War
25. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
recall
Samuel de Champlain
Mexican Independence
26. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Progressives
Pilgrims
November 1849
Juan Cabrillo
27. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Europeans in the New World: Britain
recall
the Great Compromise
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
28. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
legislative branch
rancho system
loose construction
Great Awakening
29. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
2002
Georgia
Rhode Island
30. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
Angel Island
Revolutionary War
pueblos
The southeastern Coastal Plain
31. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
First Continental Congress
Appomattox Court
Mexican American War
Pueblo Indians
32. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
melting pot
Emanciptation Proclomation
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Connecticut Commonwealth
33. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Prevailing Westerlies
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
34. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
forty - niners
Balboa
Bill of Rights
35. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
the conquistadores
The Inca Empire
England and the colonies: similarities
Rhode Island
36. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Father Fermin Lausen
Hernando Cortes
The Piedmont
2002
37. 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
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Bill of Rights
Henry Hudson
38. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Mexican Independence
Rodney Case
Great Awakening
The southeastern Coastal Plain
39. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Major battles of the Civil War
issue of representation under the Constitution
apparel industry
Central Valley Project
40. People who took land from the original Californios
Jose Figueroa
Magnuson Act of 1943
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
squatters
41. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
anti - federalists
aeorspace industry
Louisiana Purchase
William Penn
42. Conduct elections - ratify amendments to constitution - issue licenses - regulate intrastate (within state) to business - establish local governments - take measures for public health and safety - any other powers that the Constitution does not reser
Bear Flag Revolt
French and Indian War
New Government
rights of states
43. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Chinese
Three - Fifths Compromise
Chronological order of the colonies
Silicon Valley
44. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Transcontinental Railroad
Anasazi culture
Europeans in the New World
First Continental Congress
45. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
The Chinese Exclusion Act
acorns
Amendments
Angel Island
46. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Jacksonian democracy
French and Indian War
Olmec Empire
Jacques Cartier
47. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
acorns
missions
Pueblo Indians
Stamp Tax
48. In the eastern region of the United States
Germans
Central Valley
Okies
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
49. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
William Penn
Whig Party
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Gulf Stream
50. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers