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CSET U.S And California History
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1. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Appalachian Mountains
England and the colonies: similarities
Francisco Montejo
2. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Sir Francis Drake
Federalist Papers
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Central Valley
3. 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)
Jose de Galves
Father Junipero Serra
Hiram Johnson
Europeans in the New World
4. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Europeans in the New World: France
Quartering Act
Sebastian Cermeno
decline of the Mayan civlization
5. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Hopewell people
Mexican American War
The Chinese Exclusion Act
6. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
melting pot
Samuel de Champlain
black codes
7. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Commodore Sloat
sacred expedition
Francisco Pizarro
how Union defeated Confederates
8. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
reasons of American immigration
Mono Lake
The Chinese Exclusion Act
General Stockton
9. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Battle of Gettysberg
General Stockton
presidios
Progressives
10. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Declaration of Independence
William Penn
water
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
11. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
rancho system
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Federalist Papers
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
12. 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
Commodore Sloat
rancho system
Constitution
Delaware
13. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
Panama Canal
Exeter Compact
World War II
14. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
California Alien Land Act
sacred expedition
anti - federalists
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
15. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World
executive branch
Mexicans
The Inca Empire
16. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Depression of 1870
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Sebastian Vicaino
17. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Hernando Cortez
Mono Lake
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Chinese
18. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
Louisiana Purchase
Silicon Valley
Rhode Island
19. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
War of 1812
Jacksonian democracy
Yorktown
Mexican American War
20. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
General Stockton and General Kearney
New Government
Yorktown
Europeans in the New World: France
21. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
John C. Fremont
judicial branch
The Great Basin
Central Valley Project
22. 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
Second Constitutional Congress
Hernando Cortes
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Stamp Tax
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
Panama Canal
Rodney Case
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Townsheld Acts of 1767
24. 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
initiative
Chronological order of the colonies
Jacksonian democracy
Russians
25. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
Appomattox Court
Sir Francis Drake
French and Indian War
anti - federalists
26. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Russians
Railroad Act of 1864
Pilgrims
apparel industry
27. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Europeans in the New World: France
black codes
Major battles of the Civil War
Pony Express
28. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
Mexican American War
Andrew Johnson
Jose de Galves
29. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Japanese
Democratic Republicans
Johann Sutter
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
30. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Europeans in the New World
Lewis and Clark
Constitutional Convention
New Government
31. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
French and Indian War
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Immigration Act of 1965
judicial branch
32. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Federalist Party
legislative branch
Francisco Montejo
Russians
33. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Bill of Rights
'strict construction'
Jacksonian democracy
November 1849
34. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
'strict construction'
The Gulf Stream
Great Awakening
35. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Owens River
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Immigration Act of 1965
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
36. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
entertainment
War of 1812
Mayflower Compact
Mississippian culture
37. 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
Pony Express
Central Valley Project
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
World War II
38. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Important Battles of the Revolution
Jamestown
railroad
rancho system
39. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Intolerable Acts of 1774
separation of powers
Sierra Nevadas
The Gulf Stream
40. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
California
Confederacy advanage
William Penn
England and the colonies: similarities
41. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Andrew Johnson
Proposition 13
presidios
secession
42. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
Transcontinental Railroad
England and the colonies: similarities
War of 1812
Land Commission
43. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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44. 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
Delaware
forty - niners
1850
Balboa
45. The two major deserts in California
apparel industry
Japanese
Quartering Act
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
46. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Francisco Pizarro
Mexican - American War
Radical Republicans
California Alien Land Act
47. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Election of 1876
Confederacy advanage
48. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Hernando Cortes
hydraulic mining -
49. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Great Awakening
Appomattox Court
anti - federalists
Mexican - American War
50. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Constitution
merchant Sam Brannon
tule
Hernando Cortez