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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
forty - niners
Toltecs
the Great Compromise
Appomattox Court
2. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
Jamestown
Hernando Cortez
Georgia
3. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
presidios
Progressives
'strict construction'
Hopewell people
4. Northern California Indian tribes
Proclamation of 1763
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Pilgrims
Proposition 13
5. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
executive branch
Pilgrims
Germans
6. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Lewis and Clark
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Maryland
aeorspace industry
7. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Silicon Valley
The Continental Divide
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
8. 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
Mt. Whitney
Revolutionary War
Chinese
New Government
9. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
England and the colonies: similarities
Mexican - American War
Russians
10. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Sir Francis Drake
Mono Lake
loose construction
rancho system
11. (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
Gold
Proposition 13
Georgia
Major battles of the Civil War
12. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Chronological order of the colonies
southern anad eastern European
the conquistadores
13. 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
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
missions
14. 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
First Continental Congress
Salton Sea
Tea Act of 1773
pueblos
15. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Compromise of 1850
aeorspace industry
issue of representation under the Constitution
Japanese
16. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Jose de Galves
Whig Party
Hopewell people
Lewis and Clark
17. 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
Francisco Pizarro
Pony Express
decline of the Mayan civlization
Election of 1876
18. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Rodney Case
The Great Basin
nullification
Battle of Gettysberg
19. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
Delaware
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Rhode Island
20. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Maryland
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Delaware
21. 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.
November 1849
The Declaration of Independence
Francisco Montejo
recall
22. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
Panama Canal
Mt. Whitney
referendum
Salton Sea
23. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
The Industrial Era of the United States
rights of the federal government
Jose de Galves
24. 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
hydraulic mining -
Revolutionary War
Mayflower Compact
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
25. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
hydraulic mining -
The Declaration of Independence
Battle of Gettysberg
Panama Canal
26. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Rodney Case
Transcontinental Railroad
Democratic Republicans
nullification
27. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mayflower Compact
The Chinese Exclusion Act
28. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
executive branch
Watts Riots
Stamp Tax
Emanciptation Proclomation
29. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
merchant Sam Brannon
free - soil movement
Proposition 13
Olmec Empire
30. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
manifest destiny
Prevailing Westerlies
Appomattox Court
Exeter Compact
31. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Three - Fifths Compromise
initiative
Mexican - American War
First Continental Congress
32. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Bill of Rights
Mexican Independence
Radical Republicans
Second Constitutional Congress
33. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
the Oregon Territory
The Aztec Empire
legislative branch
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
34. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Hernando Cortez
The Aztec Empire
separation of powers
35. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Whig Party
Pueblo Indians
missions
Appomattox Court
36. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Appomattox Court
Silicon Valley
Dust Bowl
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
37. 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
War of 1812
Compromise of 1850
Central Valley
Proposition 13
38. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Amerindians
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Chronological order of the colonies
The Gulf Stream
39. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
1850
water
40. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
aeorspace industry
The Great Basin
Whig Party
Mississippian culture
41. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
internment camps
Father Fermin Lausen
Owens River
Japanese
42. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
reasons of American immigration
initiative
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The southeastern Coastal Plain
43. 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
Irish
Federalist Party
Exeter Compact
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
44. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
Tea Act of 1773
Proclamation of 1763
Toltecs
Sir Francis Drake
45. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
squatters
First Continental Congress
The Chinese Exclusion Act
46. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Silicon Valley
referendum
Francisco Montejo
the conquistadores
47. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Great Awakening
General Stockton
reasons of American immigration
November 1849
48. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Yorktown
Germans
hydraulic mining -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
49. 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
Rhode Island
Pueblo Indians
Hernando Cortes
Irish
50. 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
Hernando Cortes
Amerindians
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
aeorspace industry