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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
Tea Act of 1773
The Appalachian Mountains
2002
Land Commission
2. 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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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)
Father Junipero Serra
War of 1812
The Inca Empire
Francisco Pizarro
4. 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
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Hopewell people
War of 1812
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
5. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
California Alien Land Act
Andrew Johnson
loose construction
Jacksonian democracy
6. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Mexican American War
Mexicans
7. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
French and Indian War
Amendments
Dust Bowl
The Piedmont
8. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
French and Indian War
Second Constitutional Congress
Federalist Party
9. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
Revolutionary War
Rhode Island
Federalist Party
Europeans in the New World
10. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
French and Indian War
recall
tourism
11. Southern California native american tribes
Emanciptation Proclomation
Hetch Hetchy Dam
War of 1812
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
12. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Stamp Tax
Okies
melting pot
Death Valley
13. 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
Rodney Case
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Proposition 13
Hiram Johnson
14. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Constitutional Convention
General Stockton and General Kearney
Puritans
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
15. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Okies
Jose de Galves
Tea Act of 1773
Francisco Montejo
16. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Revolutionary War
decline of the Mayan civlization
Great Awakening
17. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
French and Indian War
Hetch Hetchy Dam
forty - niners
18. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Sebastian Vicaino
recall
Francisco Pizarro
Transcontinental Railroad
19. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
November 1849
Sebastian Cermeno
Emanciptation Proclomation
squatters
20. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Sugar Act
Commodore Sloat
Great Awakening
Sierra Nevadas
21. People who took land from the original Californios
Louisiana Purchase
squatters
free - soil movement
Land Commission
22. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
issue of representation under the Constitution
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Dust Bowl
Democratic Republicans
23. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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24. The central agricultural area of California
Father Fermin Lausen
Yorktown
rancho system
Central Valley
25. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
1850
The Inca Empire
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
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
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mexican Independence
Constitution
27. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
New Government
28. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Jamestown
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Transcontinental Railroad
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
29. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
hydraulic mining -
water
Depression of 1870
Amendments
30. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Hernando Cortes
Puritans
Maryland
31. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Thirteenth Amendment
California Alien Land Act
Appomattox Court
Jacques Cartier
32. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Yorktown
aeorspace industry
33. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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34. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Sierra Nevadas
Union advantage
Georgia
nullification
35. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
The Maya Empire
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Lewis and Clark
36. Northern California Indian tribes
Okies
Articles of Confederation
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Jacques Cartier
37. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Piedmont
Rhode Island
38. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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39. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
William Penn
executive branch
sacred expedition
black codes
40. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Constitution
Exeter Compact
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Olmec Empire
41. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Democratic Republicans
free - soil movement
Dust Bowl
Sugar Act
42. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Louisiana Purchase
Europeans in the New World: France
Central Pacific Railroad
Battle of Gettysberg
43. 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
Bill of Rights
legislative branch
squatters
England and the colonies: similarities
44. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Constitutional Convention
Ten Percent Plan
Sir Francis Drake
45. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Silicon Valley
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Hernando Cortes
Tea Act of 1773
46. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
The Appalachian Mountains
1850
Jacksonian democracy
Chronological order of the colonies
47. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
nullification
tourism
48. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Georgia
Panama Canal
rights of the federal government
49. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Watts Riots
the conquistadores
Mexicans
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
50. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Mexican - American War
Union advantage
Mono Lake
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes