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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The lowest point in California
the conquistadores
Major battles of the Civil War
Bear Flag Revolt
Death Valley
2. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Sir Francis Drake
First Continental Congress
Second Constitutional Congress
Appomattox Court
3. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Commodore Sloat
Juan Cabrillo
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
November 1849
4. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
California Alien Land Act
executive branch
Anasazi culture
Exeter Compact
5. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
pueblos
Louisiana Purchase
Immigration Act of 1965
Henry Hudson
6. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
The Gulf Stream
Railroad Act of 1864
Commodore Sloat
aeorspace industry
7. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Francisco Montejo
manifest destiny
apparel industry
acorns
8. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
entertainment
California
Chinese
The interior
9. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Russians
Great Awakening
Europeans in the New World
Important Battles of the Revolution
10. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
Samuel de Champlain
The Aztec Empire
Compromise of 1850
merchant Sam Brannon
11. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Second Constitutional Congress
Whig Party
nullification
Land Commission
12. 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
Confederacy advanage
entertainment
Compromise of 1850
13. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Jacques Cartier
Francisco Pizarro
Mayflower Compact
Europeans in the New World: France
14. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Chinese
acorns
rights of the federal government
Proclamation of 1763
15. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Pony Express
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Commodore Sloat
Death Valley
16. 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
Hiram Johnson
Federalist Papers
tule
secession
17. 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
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Puritans
aeorspace industry
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
18. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Great Awakening
Sebastian Vicaino
California Alien Land Act
rights of states
19. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Transcontinental Railroad
Immigration Act of 1965
acorns
20. 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)
Louisiana Purchase
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Georgia
Father Junipero Serra
21. 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
The Appalachian Mountains
Silicon Valley
Mono Lake
Pony Express
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
Constitutional Convention
squatters
Jose de Galves
The Piedmont
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
The Great Basin
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
forty - niners
24. Northern California Indian tribes
Democratic Republicans
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Maya Empire
Union advantage
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
manifest destiny
pueblos
Land Commission
First Continental Congress
26. 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
World War II
Constitution
Hiram Johnson
Major battles of the Civil War
27. 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
Compromise of 1850
Jacques Cartier
rights of the federal government
Puritans
28. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Constitutional Convention
1850
Hopewell people
Whig Party
29. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
southern anad eastern European
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Chinese
30. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
hydraulic mining -
Samuel de Champlain
The Maya Empire
Federalist Papers
31. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
referendum
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Toltecs
William Penn
32. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Jose Figueroa
Central Valley
Mayflower Compact
33. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Chinese
Federalist Papers
reasons of American immigration
Battle of Gettysberg
34. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Chronological order of the colonies
Pilgrims
Sugar Act
War of 1812
35. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
William Penn
Major battles of the Civil War
General Stockton
36. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Puritans
Irish
Toltecs
The Appalachian Mountains
37. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Connecticut Commonwealth
Pony Express
Delaware
Lewis and Clark
38. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
The interior
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
federalism
Chinese
39. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Georgia
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Jose Figueroa
melting pot
40. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
the Oregon Territory
southern anad eastern European
entertainment
California Alien Land Act
41. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Mayflower Compact
the Great Compromise
Germans
42. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
the Oregon Territory
Sierra Nevadas
General Stockton and General Kearney
43. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
presidios
internment camps
Delaware
44. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
executive branch
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Andrew Johnson
The Appalachian Mountains
45. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Hernando Cortez
southern anad eastern European
Mexican American War
Stamp Tax
46. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
Ten Percent Plan
Central Valley
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
47. 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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48. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
secession
Land Commission
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
49. 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
Modoc War
Quartering Act
Jose Figueroa
Hetch Hetchy Dam
50. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Toltecs
Chronological order of the colonies
Louisiana Purchase
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