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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Immigration Act of 1965
pueblos
November 1849
Russians
2. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
pueblos
Radical Republicans
tule
Appomattox Court
3. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Commodore Sloat
Hiram Johnson
Chronological order of the colonies
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
recall
acorns
separation of powers
Rodney Case
5. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Olmec Empire
Central Pacific Railroad
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Quartering Act
6. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
missions
Connecticut Commonwealth
Chronological order of the colonies
Rhode Island
7. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Father Fermin Lausen
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Trenton
Delaware
8. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
First Continental Congress
Progressives
federalism
Amendments
9. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Maryland
anti - federalists
The Appalachian Mountains
10. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Great Awakening
presidios
Germans
Connecticut Commonwealth
11. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
southern anad eastern European
Central Pacific Railroad
black codes
Proposition 13
12. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
the conquistadores
The Declaration of Independence
Land Commission
Johann Sutter
13. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
Transcontinental Railroad
tourism
manifest destiny
14. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
nullification
Major battles of the Civil War
Constitutional Convention
Sir Francis Drake
15. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Sierra Nevadas
Transcontinental Railroad
Gentleman's Agreement
sacred expedition
16. 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
Hopewell people
Land Commission
rights of states
Whig Party
17. 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
Chinese
General Stockton and General Kearney
Proposition 13
initiative
18. The lowest point in California
Francisco Montejo
Death Valley
Olmec Empire
loose construction
19. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
free - soil movement
Pilgrims
Depression of 1870
20. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Juan Cabrillo
Sebastian Vicaino
William Penn
Henry Hudson
21. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
pueblos
Juan Cabrillo
Chronological order of the colonies
22. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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23. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Georgia
tule
Pueblo Indians
24. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
separation of powers
the Great Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Europeans in the New World: Britain
25. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
Progressives
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Exeter Compact
26. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Owens River
England and the colonies: similarities
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Gold
27. 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
Maryland
French and Indian War
Tea Act of 1773
New Government
28. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
sacred expedition
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Pilgrims
Owens River
29. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
the Oregon Territory
Sugar Act
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
30. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mexicans
Rodney Case
aeorspace industry
31. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
tule
Thirteenth Amendment
Jose Figueroa
Gentleman's Agreement
32. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Samuel de Champlain
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Missouri Compromise of 1820
33. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
The Continental Divide
World War II
William Penn
referendum
34. Northern California Indian tribes
Hernando Cortez
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Georgia
Hiram Johnson
35. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Europeans in the New World: Britain
the conquistadores
England and the colonies: similarities
36. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Thirteenth Amendment
Exeter Compact
Railroad Act of 1864
Jose Figueroa
37. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Revolutionary War
Europeans in the New World: France
Okies
Federalist Party
38. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
presidios
Mexican - American War
Europeans in the New World: France
39. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
Death Valley
Mexican Independence
Louisiana Purchase
40. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Important Battles of the Revolution
Father Junipero Serra
manifest destiny
41. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
The Maya Empire
Hopewell people
anti - federalists
initiative
42. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Toltecs
War of 1812
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
railroad
43. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad
General Stockton
Jacksonian democracy
Louisiana Purchase
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
44. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
free - soil movement
Intolerable Acts of 1774
loose construction
Depression of 1870
45. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Immigration Act of 1965
Balboa
Sugar Act
46. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
French and Indian War
The Great Basin
railroad
apparel industry
47. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Georgia
Angel Island
Magnuson Act of 1943
Trenton
48. 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
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Industrial Era of the United States
Election of 1876
manifest destiny
49. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
General Stockton and General Kearney
Magnuson Act of 1943
Whig Party
The Appalachian Mountains
50. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Sebastian Vicaino
Johann Sutter
sacred expedition
Modoc War