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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
referendum
The interior
The Maya Empire
Compromise of 1850
2. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Chinese
Francisco Montejo
Chinese
Europeans in the New World: Britain
3. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
referendum
The Continental Divide
Dust Bowl
4. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
November 1849
Mt. Whitney
free - soil movement
Emanciptation Proclomation
5. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Confederacy advanage
Johann Sutter
Intolerable Acts of 1774
6. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Olmec Empire
French and Indian War
Mexican Independence
secession
7. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Samuel de Champlain
Constitutional Convention
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
the Oregon Territory
8. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Whig Party
Russians
Democratic Republicans
1850
9. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Hernando Cortes
Louisiana Purchase
French and Indian War
aeorspace industry
10. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
separation of powers
The Gulf Stream
Delaware
Mexican American War
11. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
Mexicans
Jacques Cartier
Europeans in the New World: France
12. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Jacksonian democracy
General Stockton
Constitution
The Piedmont
13. 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
Amerindians
Constitutional Convention
the conquistadores
14. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
issue of representation under the Constitution
Henry Hudson
Stamp Tax
Gold
15. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Jose de Galves
Sugar Act
Prevailing Westerlies
Intolerable Acts of 1774
16. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Mexican American War
Important Battles of the Revolution
merchant Sam Brannon
Chronological order of the colonies
17. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
water
Prevailing Westerlies
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Anasazi culture
18. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Land Commission
Okies
Articles of Confederation
Dust Bowl
19. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
French and Indian War
Mexicans
1850
southern anad eastern European
20. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
judicial branch
Mexican Independence
Anasazi culture
21. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
Mexican - American War
Immigration Act of 1965
Rhode Island
Declaration of Independence
22. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Transcontinental Railroad
The Piedmont
23. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
Francisco Pizarro
World War II
Rodney Case
The Piedmont
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
California
Jose de Galves
Election of 1876
William Penn
25. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
'strict construction'
internment camps
secession
California
26. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Hernando Cortez
Emanciptation Proclomation
Father Fermin Lausen
27. 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
squatters
Mono Lake
Election of 1876
rights of states
28. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
General Stockton
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Europeans in the New World: France
29. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
loose construction
aeorspace industry
Mono Lake
French and Indian War
30. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
executive branch
Jose Figueroa
squatters
Workingmen's Party
31. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Hernando Cortez
Central Valley
Salton Sea
acorns
32. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Central Pacific Railroad
water
Germans
black codes
33. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
John C. Fremont
presidios
Central Valley Project
34. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Transcontinental Railroad
The Declaration of Independence
Central Valley
35. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Mississippian culture
forty - niners
issue of representation under the Constitution
referendum
36. Southeatern California native american tribes
Francisco Pizarro
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Olmec Empire
apparel industry
37. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
judicial branch
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Missouri Compromise of 1820
2002
38. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
sacred expedition
Bill of Rights
Salton Sea
The Gulf Stream
39. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Proclamation of 1763
Watts Riots
Chinese
black codes
40. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
southern anad eastern European
Uncle Tom's Cabin
initiative
41. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Democratic Republicans
tule
The Continental Divide
Emanciptation Proclomation
42. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Olmec Empire
Immigration Act of 1965
The Maya Empire
Hernando Cortez
43. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
The Piedmont
Angel Island
judicial branch
Sierra Nevadas
44. 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
Anasazi culture
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Transcontinental Railroad
Tea Act of 1773
45. Drains the interior of the United States
First Continental Congress
internment camps
Angel Island
The Mississippi River
46. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
railroad
Andrew Johnson
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
47. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Quartering Act
Mexican American War
Jamestown
The Industrial Era of the United States
48. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Tea Act of 1773
Federalist Party
New Government
Important Battles of the Revolution
49. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
judicial branch
Bear Flag Revolt
Federalist Party
50. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Commodore Sloat
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Proposition 13
Mexicans