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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
forty - niners
Lewis and Clark
Magnuson Act of 1943
Anasazi culture
2. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Amendments
Pilgrims
how Union defeated Confederates
Pony Express
3. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Exeter Compact
Progressives
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
4. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
tule
tourism
hydraulic mining -
The Gulf Stream
5. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Chronological order of the colonies
issue of representation under the Constitution
Battle of Gettysberg
California
6. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Juan Cabrillo
The Gulf Stream
Okies
Major battles of the Civil War
7. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Okies
Francisco Pizarro
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Appalachian Mountains
8. 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
Confederacy advanage
Puritans
referendum
Irish
9. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
French and Indian War
Francisco Montejo
legislative branch
Bill of Rights
10. 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
executive branch
hydraulic mining -
Toltecs
Russians
11. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Pilgrims
Democratic Republicans
Gold
Chronological order of the colonies
12. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
the Great Compromise
Sebastian Cermeno
squatters
Confederacy advanage
13. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
England and the colonies: differences
World War II
issue of representation under the Constitution
14. 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
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Land Commission
Whig Party
rancho system
15. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Mexicans
Europeans in the New World: Britain
forty - niners
Amendments
16. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Francisco Montejo
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Emanciptation Proclomation
Appomattox Court
17. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Francisco Pizarro
judicial branch
Andrew Johnson
Mt. Whitney
18. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Modoc War
Exeter Compact
The interior
19. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Amendments
Amerindians
Hernando Cortez
Georgia
20. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Central Valley Project
Chinese
Jacques Cartier
Jamestown
21. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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22. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
secession
the conquistadores
Francisco Montejo
reasons of American immigration
23. (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
Chronological order of the colonies
Important Battles of the Revolution
Immigration Act of 1965
Johann Sutter
24. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Angel Island
Ten Percent Plan
Death Valley
entertainment
25. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
French and Indian War
Pueblo Indians
Magnuson Act of 1943
Owens River
26. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
French and Indian War
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World: France
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
27. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
rights of states
Federalist Papers
Quartering Act
merchant Sam Brannon
28. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
Major battles of the Civil War
Amerindians
Great Awakening
29. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Major battles of the Civil War
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Pueblo Indians
Balboa
30. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
rights of the federal government
black codes
Owens River
California
31. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Constitutional Convention
issue of representation under the Constitution
Second Constitutional Congress
Irish
32. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Angel Island
Georgia
Mississippian culture
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
33. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Constitutional Convention
Okies
Bill of Rights
34. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Sebastian Vicaino
Juan Cabrillo
Proclamation of 1763
legislative branch
35. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hiram Johnson
Declaration of Independence
The Aztec Empire
Hernando Cortez
36. 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
Amerindians
black codes
Transcontinental Railroad
37. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Watts Riots
Mexicans
separation of powers
The Mississippi River
38. 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
Father Fermin Lausen
Jamestown
Mexican American War
39. Southern California native american tribes
Balboa
Father Fermin Lausen
pueblos
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
40. 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
The Great Basin
Prevailing Westerlies
Samuel de Champlain
Watts Riots
41. 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
loose construction
William Penn
Important Battles of the Revolution
Proclamation of 1763
42. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Father Junipero Serra
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mississippian culture
Tea Act of 1773
43. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
Francisco Montejo
internment camps
Second Constitutional Congress
44. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Tea Act of 1773
Lewis and Clark
Thirteenth Amendment
Sugar Act
45. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
The Inca Empire
The interior
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
46. 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
Johann Sutter
Proclamation of 1763
presidios
Election of 1876
47. Southeatern California native american tribes
The southeastern Coastal Plain
the Great Compromise
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Pony Express
48. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Mexican American War
pueblos
November 1849
Confederacy advanage
49. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Appomattox Court
Rodney Case
Hernando Cortes
50. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
Francisco Pizarro
Exeter Compact
the conquistadores
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