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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
apparel industry
railroad
Europeans in the New World: France
2. 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
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
squatters
Mexican Independence
3. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
Amerindians
sacred expedition
Chinese
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
4. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
forty - niners
Land Commission
recall
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
5. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Delaware
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mexican - American War
Proclamation of 1763
6. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
The Declaration of Independence
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Whig Party
7. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Declaration of Independence
referendum
Central Pacific Railroad
Chronological order of the colonies
8. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
California
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Thirteenth Amendment
melting pot
9. Southern California native american tribes
Delaware
Owens River
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Hiram Johnson
10. 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
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Chronological order of the colonies
Hopewell people
secession
11. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
Amendments
Jacques Cartier
executive branch
12. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
Articles of Confederation
War of 1812
apparel industry
13. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Francisco Montejo
Yorktown
The Gulf Stream
referendum
14. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
apparel industry
Three - Fifths Compromise
November 1849
Emanciptation Proclomation
15. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
England and the colonies: differences
Gold
federalism
Workingmen's Party
16. 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
Election of 1876
Hiram Johnson
manifest destiny
missions
17. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Toltecs
Samuel de Champlain
Yorktown
18. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
The Continental Divide
Compromise of 1850
Henry Hudson
New Government
19. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
apparel industry
acorns
Europeans in the New World: France
Amerindians
20. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
John C. Fremont
Three - Fifths Compromise
Puritans
Battle of Gettysberg
21. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
John C. Fremont
Battle of Gettysberg
the Oregon Territory
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
22. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
railroad
merchant Sam Brannon
Bill of Rights
Pony Express
23. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Europeans in the New World: Britain
executive branch
railroad
Yorktown
24. 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
Balboa
Major battles of the Civil War
Progressives
hydraulic mining -
25. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Exeter Compact
pueblos
Delaware
Central Valley
26. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Silicon Valley
New Government
Chinese
Mexicans
27. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
French and Indian War
Delaware
French and Indian War
Russians
28. Facilities that the Spanish used to turned to the Indians to establish agricultural fields and learned Christianity. natives also were exposed to disease that they don't have immunity to. Also - brought olive trees and orange trees and introduced whe
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
Jamestown
missions
29. 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
Irish
Constitutional Convention
Uncle Tom's Cabin
War of 1812
30. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
manifest destiny
Proclamation of 1763
nullification
French and Indian War
31. 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
Appomattox Court
Bear Flag Revolt
Constitution
Gentleman's Agreement
32. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Jamestown
Balboa
Russians
Father Fermin Lausen
33. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
The interior
Owens River
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Central Valley
34. An era fueled by availabliity of a cheap labor pool in the form of recent immigrants. Newly built factories attracted even more immigrants to the states
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Georgia
The Industrial Era of the United States
England and the colonies: differences
35. 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
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
reasons of American immigration
Whig Party
General Stockton
36. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Ten Percent Plan
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Second Constitutional Congress
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
37. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
initiative
Second Constitutional Congress
Henry Hudson
38. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Mexicans
free - soil movement
merchant Sam Brannon
California
39. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
French and Indian War
Irish
Japanese
Hernando Cortez
40. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
2002
Louisiana Purchase
hydraulic mining -
executive branch
41. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
Jamestown
Revolutionary War
Georgia
Lewis and Clark
42. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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43. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
The Inca Empire
Proclamation of 1763
Connecticut Commonwealth
Watts Riots
44. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Mexican American War
rancho system
Pueblo Indians
45. Southeatern California native american tribes
Olmec Empire
The Inca Empire
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Puritans
46. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
presidios
Anasazi culture
Proposition 13
Russians
47. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
War of 1812
water
reasons of American immigration
federalism
48. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
John C. Fremont
First Continental Congress
Georgia
Bill of Rights
49. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Germans
separation of powers
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
apparel industry
50. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
rights of states
General Stockton and General Kearney
Jacques Cartier
William Penn