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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
Sebastian Cermeno
Transcontinental Railroad
Sir Francis Drake
2. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
anti - federalists
Constitutional Convention
Pueblo Indians
Francisco Montejo
3. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Owens River
Progressives
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Tea Act of 1773
4. Northern California Indian tribes
anti - federalists
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Declaration of Independence
Workingmen's Party
5. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
squatters
Pony Express
Second Constitutional Congress
Thirteenth Amendment
6. 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
Andrew Johnson
Father Fermin Lausen
Transcontinental Railroad
7. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
internment camps
the conquistadores
Amerindians
Bill of Rights
8. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
Prevailing Westerlies
Rodney Case
loose construction
forty - niners
9. Drains the interior of the United States
Chinese
Henry Hudson
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
The Mississippi River
10. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
water
tule
entertainment
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
11. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Whig Party
separation of powers
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
12. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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13. The central agricultural area of California
Russians
Central Valley
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
First Continental Congress
14. 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
referendum
tule
Sierra Nevadas
Russians
15. 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
Central Pacific Railroad
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Compromise of 1850
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
16. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
Toltecs
acorns
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
17. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
melting pot
War of 1812
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
2002
18. 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
Central Pacific Railroad
Jose de Galves
black codes
Ten Percent Plan
19. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
rancho system
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Intolerable Acts of 1774
20. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
'strict construction'
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Continental Divide
21. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Second Constitutional Congress
Central Valley
Russians
Bear Flag Revolt
22. 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
Progressives
New Government
apparel industry
23. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Uncle Tom's Cabin
secession
Delaware
24. (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
Emanciptation Proclomation
Pueblo Indians
Chronological order of the colonies
Constitutional Convention
25. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
Hernando Cortez
Jose Figueroa
Chinese
26. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Salton Sea
recall
melting pot
27. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Articles of Confederation
California
Death Valley
Hiram Johnson
28. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Railroad Act of 1864
Transcontinental Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
black codes
29. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Juan Cabrillo
Father Junipero Serra
French and Indian War
General Stockton
30. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Railroad Act of 1864
John C. Fremont
Chinese
internment camps
31. 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
missions
Magnuson Act of 1943
Ten Percent Plan
Central Valley Project
32. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Rhode Island
The Maya Empire
Rodney Case
Okies
33. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
Europeans in the New World
Hernando Cortez
reasons of American immigration
34. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
Johann Sutter
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Ten Percent Plan
35. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Workingmen's Party
New Government
Jacques Cartier
Connecticut Commonwealth
36. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
squatters
Progressives
Francisco Montejo
General Stockton
37. 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
secession
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
entertainment
Anasazi culture
38. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
2002
Mexicans
Chinese
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
39. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
World War II
Confederacy advanage
Magnuson Act of 1943
apparel industry
40. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
Trenton
Stamp Tax
Europeans in the New World
41. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
French and Indian War
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Prevailing Westerlies
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
42. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Proclamation of 1763
43. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
acorns
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Death Valley
44. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
1850
Rhode Island
Francisco Montejo
Emanciptation Proclomation
45. 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
Angel Island
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Magnuson Act of 1943
Owens River
46. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Pony Express
hydraulic mining -
William Penn
Gold
47. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
The Maya Empire
Olmec Empire
melting pot
Exeter Compact
48. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Chronological order of the colonies
Puritans
Irish
The Inca Empire
49. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
The Appalachian Mountains
Radical Republicans
First Continental Congress
50. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Sir Francis Drake
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Jacksonian democracy
Whig Party