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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
melting pot
Compromise of 1850
Mexican American War
Jacksonian democracy
2. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Jamestown
Proposition 13
French and Indian War
The Inca Empire
3. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Radical Republicans
Puritans
missions
4. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
California
manifest destiny
Watts Riots
5. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Sebastian Cermeno
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
apparel industry
the conquistadores
6. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
New Government
Proposition 13
separation of powers
Radical Republicans
7. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
The Continental Divide
Bear Flag Revolt
Appomattox Court
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
8. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
Pilgrims
Three - Fifths Compromise
Magnuson Act of 1943
9. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
Panama Canal
referendum
England and the colonies: similarities
10. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
tourism
Sir Francis Drake
Pueblo Indians
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
11. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
presidios
federalism
Compromise of 1850
reasons of American immigration
12. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Emanciptation Proclomation
Samuel de Champlain
Panama Canal
Progressives
13. 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
reasons of American immigration
initiative
Johann Sutter
Radical Republicans
14. People who took land from the original Californios
California Alien Land Act
squatters
Pueblo Indians
California
15. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Declaration of Independence
Revolutionary War
Europeans in the New World: France
entertainment
16. 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
secession
Pueblo Indians
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
17. Southern California native american tribes
Germans
Exeter Compact
Hopewell people
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
18. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Second Constitutional Congress
Declaration of Independence
the Oregon Territory
Rhode Island
19. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Andrew Johnson
Hopewell people
Francisco Montejo
Land Commission
20. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Proposition 13
Ten Percent Plan
21. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Juan Cabrillo
Silicon Valley
Democratic Republicans
Mexican - American War
22. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
merchant Sam Brannon
Salton Sea
Commodore Sloat
23. 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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Trenton
rights of states
24. 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
hydraulic mining -
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Jose Figueroa
25. 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
Transcontinental Railroad
Revolutionary War
melting pot
The Industrial Era of the United States
26. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Trenton
manifest destiny
California Alien Land Act
The Piedmont
27. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Sir Francis Drake
federalism
War of 1812
legislative branch
28. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Mexican Independence
Irish
Europeans in the New World: France
29. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Mexican American War
2002
Land Commission
Pueblo Indians
30. 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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31. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Gentleman's Agreement
free - soil movement
Democratic Republicans
32. 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
water
The Industrial Era of the United States
Appomattox Court
33. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
World War II
southern anad eastern European
separation of powers
Thirteenth Amendment
34. 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
Andrew Johnson
referendum
Japanese
Georgia
35. 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
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Balboa
sacred expedition
Francisco Montejo
36. The central agricultural area of California
Hernando Cortes
Delaware
Central Valley
Gold
37. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Olmec Empire
Mexican American War
the conquistadores
38. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Union advantage
California
Three - Fifths Compromise
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
39. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
1850
Irish
Confederacy advanage
Dust Bowl
40. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Great Awakening
issue of representation under the Constitution
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Europeans in the New World
41. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Mayflower Compact
New Government
The Appalachian Mountains
The interior
42. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Bear Flag Revolt
Maryland
Railroad Act of 1864
Salton Sea
43. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Stamp Tax
Constitution
sacred expedition
44. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
hydraulic mining -
Quartering Act
Major battles of the Civil War
45. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
rights of states
Tea Act of 1773
Compromise of 1850
46. 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
Pony Express
Progressives
England and the colonies: differences
Townsheld Acts of 1767
47. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Chronological order of the colonies
issue of representation under the Constitution
General Stockton
Louisiana Purchase
48. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Louisiana Purchase
John C. Fremont
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Pueblo Indians
49. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Balboa
missions
'strict construction'
Federalist Papers
50. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
pueblos
Battle of Gettysberg
missions
southern anad eastern European