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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
secession
Hiram Johnson
free - soil movement
loose construction
2. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
manifest destiny
tourism
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
rights of the federal government
3. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
secession
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Mexican Independence
4. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
Transcontinental Railroad
sacred expedition
Land Commission
5. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Great Awakening
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
acorns
Jacques Cartier
6. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Silicon Valley
Mayflower Compact
Europeans in the New World: Spain
November 1849
7. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Depression of 1870
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Progressives
Henry Hudson
8. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Proposition 13
Magnuson Act of 1943
Constitutional Convention
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
9. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Juan Cabrillo
Chinese
reasons of American immigration
Europeans in the New World: France
10. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Battle of Gettysberg
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
recall
11. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
The Continental Divide
Stamp Tax
Bill of Rights
1850
12. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Jacques Cartier
General Stockton and General Kearney
aeorspace industry
separation of powers
13. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Europeans in the New World: France
rancho system
Hernando Cortes
14. Gave southerneers a stronger fugitive slave law and popular sovereignty (territories would have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to adopt slavery on their borders) over newly conquered Mexico areas in exchange for Califor
Central Valley Project
Europeans in the New World
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Compromise of 1850
15. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Mt. Whitney
rights of the federal government
Pueblo Indians
Chinese
16. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
The Appalachian Mountains
melting pot
Appomattox Court
French and Indian War
17. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
the conquistadores
Jacksonian democracy
Sebastian Cermeno
the Great Compromise
18. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Mississippian culture
Sir Francis Drake
Land Commission
acorns
19. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
loose construction
internment camps
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Olmec Empire
20. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
Federalist Party
Europeans in the New World: Spain
the Oregon Territory
21. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
The Gulf Stream
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Transcontinental Railroad
issue of representation under the Constitution
22. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Radical Republicans
The Industrial Era of the United States
Immigration Act of 1965
23. 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
Whig Party
Hetch Hetchy Dam
rights of the federal government
rights of states
24. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
internment camps
Mexican American War
referendum
Francisco Montejo
25. The lowest point in California
the conquistadores
Compromise of 1850
Death Valley
Prevailing Westerlies
26. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
the conquistadores
William Penn
'strict construction'
merchant Sam Brannon
27. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Mayflower Compact
England and the colonies: similarities
internment camps
free - soil movement
28. 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
Transcontinental Railroad
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Japanese
pueblos
29. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
railroad
November 1849
Important Battles of the Revolution
Maryland
30. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
executive branch
Exeter Compact
the conquistadores
pueblos
31. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
The Maya Empire
French and Indian War
Missouri Compromise of 1820
2002
32. The central agricultural area of California
Russians
Gentleman's Agreement
Japanese
Central Valley
33. 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
melting pot
'strict construction'
the Oregon Territory
34. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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35. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Rhode Island
the Oregon Territory
Russians
Gold
36. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Great Basin
entertainment
recall
37. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
forty - niners
Hernando Cortes
judicial branch
38. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
California Alien Land Act
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Mayflower Compact
Hopewell people
39. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
executive branch
Three - Fifths Compromise
William Penn
40. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
The Mississippi River
internment camps
Father Junipero Serra
Francisco Pizarro
41. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Georgia
Mexican - American War
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Panama Canal
42. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
presidios
William Penn
Ten Percent Plan
43. 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
Mexican - American War
Johann Sutter
The Mississippi River
Mexican American War
44. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Jacques Cartier
Central Pacific Railroad
Compromise of 1850
45. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
referendum
Juan Cabrillo
Sir Francis Drake
Land Commission
46. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
the conquistadores
Death Valley
Russians
The Declaration of Independence
47. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Federalist Papers
pueblos
Compromise of 1850
New Government
48. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Yorktown
General Stockton
Compromise of 1850
Jamestown
49. 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
Quartering Act
England and the colonies: differences
England and the colonies: similarities
Okies
50. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Mexican Independence
Chinese
southern anad eastern European
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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