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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A major mountain range in California
Yorktown
Whig Party
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sierra Nevadas
2. 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
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Democratic Republicans
Jose Figueroa
Prevailing Westerlies
3. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
federalism
Dust Bowl
The Piedmont
4. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
'strict construction'
Pueblo Indians
Rodney Case
Second Constitutional Congress
5. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
legislative branch
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Connecticut Commonwealth
Hetch Hetchy Dam
6. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
Proclamation of 1763
Germans
Russians
Ten Percent Plan
7. 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
Salton Sea
General Stockton and General Kearney
Union advantage
the conquistadores
8. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Stamp Tax
Pilgrims
tule
separation of powers
9. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Thirteenth Amendment
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
melting pot
Townsheld Acts of 1767
10. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
General Stockton
the conquistadores
Townsheld Acts of 1767
railroad
11. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Modoc War
Sebastian Cermeno
Rodney Case
General Stockton
12. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Chinese
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
California Alien Land Act
the conquistadores
13. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Okies
apparel industry
Father Junipero Serra
14. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Trenton
Emanciptation Proclomation
Radical Republicans
15. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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16. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
Workingmen's Party
the Great Compromise
Pilgrims
The Chinese Exclusion Act
17. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Prevailing Westerlies
Okies
legislative branch
Quartering Act
18. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
Constitutional Convention
Henry Hudson
Important Battles of the Revolution
19. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Commodore Sloat
Angel Island
Juan Cabrillo
20. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Panama Canal
Appomattox Court
French and Indian War
Gentleman's Agreement
21. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Revolutionary War
reasons of American immigration
Election of 1876
22. 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
Okies
'strict construction'
Jose de Galves
Depression of 1870
23. 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
tule
Silicon Valley
initiative
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
24. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Sierra Nevadas
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
judicial branch
Andrew Johnson
25. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
Revolutionary War
initiative
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Land Commission
26. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Tea Act of 1773
Anasazi culture
Depression of 1870
issue of representation under the Constitution
27. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
Louisiana Purchase
The Declaration of Independence
nullification
28. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Sebastian Vicaino
Europeans in the New World
Jamestown
Sugar Act
29. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
melting pot
The Gulf Stream
Union advantage
Sir Francis Drake
30. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Major battles of the Civil War
decline of the Mayan civlization
the conquistadores
Francisco Pizarro
31. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Pilgrims
Johann Sutter
forty - niners
Hetch Hetchy Dam
32. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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33. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Jose de Galves
Ten Percent Plan
Workingmen's Party
initiative
34. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
Whig Party
Revolutionary War
the Great Compromise
35. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Europeans in the New World
The interior
Mono Lake
sacred expedition
36. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Great Awakening
issue of representation under the Constitution
First Continental Congress
Intolerable Acts of 1774
37. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
squatters
Delaware
Salton Sea
Mayflower Compact
38. People who took land from the original Californios
Juan Cabrillo
squatters
missions
Dust Bowl
39. 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
Mississippian culture
Ten Percent Plan
Progressives
40. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
pueblos
Japanese
2002
41. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
Important Battles of the Revolution
Dust Bowl
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
42. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Japanese
The Industrial Era of the United States
Jacksonian democracy
43. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
tourism
England and the colonies: similarities
presidios
Panama Canal
44. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
Father Fermin Lausen
The Declaration of Independence
Henry Hudson
45. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
legislative branch
Modoc War
Johann Sutter
Immigration Act of 1965
46. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
California
The Continental Divide
Whig Party
47. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
reasons of American immigration
Hetch Hetchy Dam
squatters
48. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Great Awakening
entertainment
Gold
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
49. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
issue of representation under the Constitution
Father Junipero Serra
Bear Flag Revolt
Owens River
50. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
the Great Compromise
the Oregon Territory
California
Sir Francis Drake