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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Bill of Rights
The Continental Divide
Major battles of the Civil War
Proposition 13
2. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
the Great Compromise
Jacques Cartier
Important Battles of the Revolution
Democratic Republicans
3. 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
Commodore Sloat
Pony Express
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Mexican Independence
4. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
hydraulic mining -
issue of representation under the Constitution
The Mississippi River
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
5. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
pueblos
Mississippian culture
Toltecs
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
6. 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
General Stockton and General Kearney
merchant Sam Brannon
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Okies
7. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Andrew Johnson
Trenton
tourism
secession
8. 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
Andrew Johnson
Rodney Case
Articles of Confederation
secession
9. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Pilgrims
Europeans in the New World: Spain
World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
10. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
merchant Sam Brannon
black codes
William Penn
Mississippian culture
11. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
John C. Fremont
Trenton
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Panama Canal
12. (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
recall
initiative
forty - niners
Chronological order of the colonies
13. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Russians
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
hydraulic mining -
2002
14. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
presidios
Irish
Amendments
melting pot
15. In the eastern region of the United States
Jacques Cartier
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Radical Republicans
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
16. (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
Hiram Johnson
Major battles of the Civil War
Union advantage
Progressives
17. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Gentleman's Agreement
Sir Francis Drake
tourism
William Penn
18. 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
Stamp Tax
Prevailing Westerlies
Constitution
Mono Lake
19. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
The interior
General Stockton
Louisiana Purchase
20. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Important Battles of the Revolution
The Maya Empire
Hernando Cortez
Owens River
21. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
French and Indian War
anti - federalists
Intolerable Acts of 1774
22. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Hetch Hetchy Dam
French and Indian War
The Mississippi River
Pueblo Indians
23. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Jacques Cartier
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Russians
The Appalachian Mountains
24. 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
New Government
Hernando Cortes
Mt. Whitney
25. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
recall
internment camps
Europeans in the New World: France
Salton Sea
26. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Revolutionary War
Anasazi culture
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
27. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
southern anad eastern European
referendum
Juan Cabrillo
28. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Death Valley
Three - Fifths Compromise
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Amendments
29. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
the Great Compromise
Yorktown
Dust Bowl
Johann Sutter
30. 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
California
rights of states
Father Fermin Lausen
Silicon Valley
31. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Second Constitutional Congress
Jose Figueroa
Angel Island
Chinese
32. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
pueblos
Lewis and Clark
reasons of American immigration
Bear Flag Revolt
33. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Missouri Compromise of 1820
anti - federalists
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Gold
34. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
Georgia
England and the colonies: similarities
Stamp Tax
35. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
anti - federalists
Okies
the Great Compromise
Mayflower Compact
36. 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
Chinese
Chinese
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
37. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
Dust Bowl
Samuel de Champlain
Father Junipero Serra
38. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
Hetch Hetchy Dam
The Industrial Era of the United States
Bill of Rights
water
39. 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
Salton Sea
Hopewell people
Maryland
referendum
40. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
The Industrial Era of the United States
Battle of Gettysberg
Proclamation of 1763
41. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
aeorspace industry
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Okies
42. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Rodney Case
Federalist Party
Okies
43. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Yorktown
apparel industry
sacred expedition
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
44. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
The Declaration of Independence
the Great Compromise
John C. Fremont
45. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
The interior
Maryland
black codes
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
46. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Watts Riots
'strict construction'
Anasazi culture
Death Valley
47. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
Hopewell people
tourism
Jose de Galves
48. 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
The Great Basin
2002
Mississippian culture
49. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Chinese
50. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
French and Indian War
Henry Hudson
Transcontinental Railroad
California