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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Balboa
Watts Riots
Thirteenth Amendment
Angel Island
2. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Jacksonian democracy
legislative branch
Important Battles of the Revolution
November 1849
3. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
executive branch
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Federalist Papers
manifest destiny
4. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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5. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
separation of powers
Proposition 13
apparel industry
6. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Gold
Silicon Valley
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Sir Francis Drake
7. 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
rancho system
railroad
judicial branch
Tea Act of 1773
8. 1776 Written by Thomas Jefferson - Based on the ideas of English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke - In Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government' (1690) - he set forth basic ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
aeorspace industry
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
The Declaration of Independence
9. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Federalist Party
Jacques Cartier
Olmec Empire
10. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Workingmen's Party
apparel industry
Important Battles of the Revolution
Missouri Compromise of 1820
11. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Father Junipero Serra
Anasazi culture
Jamestown
Germans
12. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
The Industrial Era of the United States
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Gulf Stream
Articles of Confederation
13. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Ten Percent Plan
Russians
First Continental Congress
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
14. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Sir Francis Drake
decline of the Mayan civlization
anti - federalists
executive branch
15. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
The Great Basin
Ten Percent Plan
New Government
French and Indian War
16. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Francisco Montejo
Johann Sutter
Yorktown
The Continental Divide
17. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Hiram Johnson
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
reasons of American immigration
Toltecs
18. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
'strict construction'
Sebastian Cermeno
apparel industry
The southeastern Coastal Plain
19. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi
Hopewell people
England and the colonies: differences
War of 1812
Thirteenth Amendment
20. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
free - soil movement
executive branch
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Revolutionary War
21. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Proclamation of 1763
Mono Lake
Radical Republicans
22. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Anasazi culture
how Union defeated Confederates
loose construction
Okies
23. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
missions
Great Awakening
World War II
Europeans in the New World
24. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Russians
separation of powers
Mexican Independence
entertainment
25. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Maya Empire
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Continental Divide
26. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Francisco Montejo
Russians
Silicon Valley
apparel industry
27. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Silicon Valley
Sebastian Cermeno
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Quartering Act
28. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Prevailing Westerlies
executive branch
rancho system
Depression of 1870
29. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Sir Francis Drake
Bear Flag Revolt
Japanese
tule
30. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Pilgrims
Jose Figueroa
Townsheld Acts of 1767
federalism
31. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
reasons of American immigration
Central Valley
Hopewell people
Hiram Johnson
32. 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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33. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Mexicans
Jose de Galves
Europeans in the New World: France
southern anad eastern European
34. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Bill of Rights
England and the colonies: similarities
apparel industry
35. 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
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Ten Percent Plan
rights of states
World War II
36. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
Balboa
The Declaration of Independence
William Penn
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
37. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Federalist Party
Juan Cabrillo
Whig Party
Johann Sutter
38. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
the conquistadores
Samuel de Champlain
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
John C. Fremont
39. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
rights of states
referendum
Lewis and Clark
Mexican - American War
40. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Juan Cabrillo
Emanciptation Proclomation
free - soil movement
black codes
41. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
legislative branch
Commodore Sloat
The Aztec Empire
decline of the Mayan civlization
42. 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
apparel industry
The Industrial Era of the United States
William Penn
England and the colonies: similarities
43. 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
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Articles of Confederation
French and Indian War
Central Valley Project
44. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
Gold
Lewis and Clark
issue of representation under the Constitution
45. 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
squatters
separation of powers
Election of 1876
Transcontinental Railroad
46. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
railroad
Chinese
aeorspace industry
Hernando Cortes
47. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Anasazi culture
Hernando Cortes
48. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Francisco Montejo
rights of the federal government
Ten Percent Plan
Panama Canal
49. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
California
free - soil movement
The Industrial Era of the United States
manifest destiny
50. (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
General Stockton
merchant Sam Brannon
The Industrial Era of the United States