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CSET U.S And California History
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1. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Henry Hudson
Toltecs
melting pot
Election of 1876
2. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
reasons of American immigration
Important Battles of the Revolution
Emanciptation Proclomation
Germans
3. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Democratic Republicans
Gold
merchant Sam Brannon
Juan Cabrillo
4. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Europeans in the New World: Britain
apparel industry
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Jacksonian democracy
5. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
apparel industry
Appomattox Court
Jacksonian democracy
6. Southern California native american tribes
Progressives
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
executive branch
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
7. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Confederacy advanage
Progressives
Salton Sea
Quartering Act
8. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
federalism
Connecticut Commonwealth
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
railroad
9. 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
Three - Fifths Compromise
Election of 1876
Hiram Johnson
Whig Party
10. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
The Declaration of Independence
Lewis and Clark
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
11. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Panama Canal
Georgia
Salton Sea
12. 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
forty - niners
apparel industry
Tea Act of 1773
Jacksonian democracy
13. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
General Stockton and General Kearney
Mexican American War
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Amendments
14. Northern California Indian tribes
England and the colonies: differences
Lewis and Clark
Stamp Tax
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
15. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Jacques Cartier
Sugar Act
November 1849
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
16. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Dust Bowl
17. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
French and Indian War
Mississippian culture
Pueblo Indians
Federalist Party
18. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
The Appalachian Mountains
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Mt. Whitney
Louisiana Purchase
19. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
Hetch Hetchy Dam
separation of powers
internment camps
Georgia
20. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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21. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Three - Fifths Compromise
Great Awakening
Watts Riots
22. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Declaration of Independence
John C. Fremont
loose construction
Exeter Compact
23. 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
Pueblo Indians
The Piedmont
Union advantage
The Industrial Era of the United States
24. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Sebastian Vicaino
Transcontinental Railroad
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
federalism
25. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Central Pacific Railroad
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
forty - niners
26. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
The Gulf Stream
Gentleman's Agreement
tule
Radical Republicans
27. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Magnuson Act of 1943
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dust Bowl
The Chinese Exclusion Act
28. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Bill of Rights
secession
Georgia
Olmec Empire
29. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
November 1849
Land Commission
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Declaration of Independence
30. 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
melting pot
Amerindians
Pony Express
the conquistadores
31. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Maryland
The Great Basin
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Confederacy advanage
32. 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
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
rights of states
Progressives
Father Fermin Lausen
33. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
issue of representation under the Constitution
Okies
Three - Fifths Compromise
Radical Republicans
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
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Balboa
entertainment
hydraulic mining -
35. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
water
The Piedmont
pueblos
squatters
36. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Railroad Act of 1864
Constitutional Convention
Amendments
37. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
Hernando Cortes
Magnuson Act of 1943
Great Awakening
issue of representation under the Constitution
38. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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39. (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
England and the colonies: differences
Europeans in the New World: France
Sebastian Cermeno
Chronological order of the colonies
40. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Missouri Compromise of 1820
sacred expedition
executive branch
anti - federalists
41. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
tule
Juan Cabrillo
Hernando Cortez
Jose de Galves
42. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Puritans
Immigration Act of 1965
Mono Lake
Constitutional Convention
43. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Major battles of the Civil War
Union advantage
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
44. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
executive branch
The Declaration of Independence
Okies
Hernando Cortes
45. 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
Revolutionary War
1850
Federalist Party
Jose Figueroa
46. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Francisco Montejo
decline of the Mayan civlization
Proposition 13
First Continental Congress
47. 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
separation of powers
Mexican American War
merchant Sam Brannon
initiative
48. 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
Russians
Progressives
Amerindians
apparel industry
49. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
federalism
The Continental Divide
Johann Sutter
Federalist Party
50. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Mt. Whitney
Pony Express
Election of 1876
Emanciptation Proclomation