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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Articles of Confederation
Jose Figueroa
Gold
Prevailing Westerlies
2. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Constitutional Convention
Anasazi culture
Lewis and Clark
Father Junipero Serra
3. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
secession
the Great Compromise
Mono Lake
Francisco Pizarro
4. 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
Georgia
Land Commission
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Constitution
5. In the eastern region of the United States
Exeter Compact
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Union advantage
6. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Constitutional Convention
executive branch
Chinese
Central Valley
7. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Great Awakening
aeorspace industry
8. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
tourism
Bear Flag Revolt
Exeter Compact
Great Awakening
9. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Chronological order of the colonies
Sebastian Vicaino
free - soil movement
Louisiana Purchase
10. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
free - soil movement
Puritans
The Declaration of Independence
11. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Salton Sea
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
legislative branch
Puritans
12. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Federalist Party
Transcontinental Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
entertainment
13. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Watts Riots
Panama Canal
entertainment
Sierra Nevadas
14. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Appomattox Court
Chinese
The Piedmont
southern anad eastern European
15. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Stamp Tax
Mexican American War
Rhode Island
Sir Francis Drake
16. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
French and Indian War
New Government
secession
judicial branch
17. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Mayflower Compact
The Declaration of Independence
Europeans in the New World: Spain
the conquistadores
18. 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
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
issue of representation under the Constitution
Germans
England and the colonies: differences
19. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Magnuson Act of 1943
Exeter Compact
French and Indian War
20. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Juan Cabrillo
Owens River
Chinese
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
21. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Union advantage
The Gulf Stream
California
Germans
22. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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23. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Industrial Era of the United States
reasons of American immigration
Transcontinental Railroad
24. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Confederacy advanage
The Great Basin
Dust Bowl
sacred expedition
25. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Samuel de Champlain
French and Indian War
Quartering Act
Magnuson Act of 1943
26. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Mono Lake
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Andrew Johnson
Georgia
27. 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
The Continental Divide
referendum
Trenton
Balboa
28. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Jacksonian democracy
Chinese
Hernando Cortes
referendum
29. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
judicial branch
Lewis and Clark
The Continental Divide
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
30. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Puritans
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Sir Francis Drake
Samuel de Champlain
31. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
French and Indian War
tule
entertainment
recall
32. 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
presidios
French and Indian War
Railroad Act of 1864
Federalist Party
33. 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
Federalist Party
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
forty - niners
Emanciptation Proclomation
34. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Depression of 1870
Tea Act of 1773
Salton Sea
Pony Express
35. The lowest point in California
First Continental Congress
Death Valley
southern anad eastern European
aeorspace industry
36. A major food staple of California native American tribes
acorns
The Inca Empire
1850
Amerindians
37. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Juan Cabrillo
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Federalist Papers
southern anad eastern European
38. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Bear Flag Revolt
Uncle Tom's Cabin
free - soil movement
World War II
39. 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
loose construction
Land Commission
1850
Central Valley Project
40. 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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41. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
secession
Irish
Proposition 13
First Continental Congress
42. 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
Anasazi culture
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
French and Indian War
43. People who took land from the original Californios
Sir Francis Drake
Irish
Sebastian Vicaino
squatters
44. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Pony Express
loose construction
Mayflower Compact
45. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
The southeastern Coastal Plain
federalism
Sugar Act
Juan Cabrillo
46. Southeatern California native american tribes
Panama Canal
water
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Bill of Rights
47. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Lewis and Clark
Rodney Case
hydraulic mining -
48. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
free - soil movement
aeorspace industry
Union advantage
49. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
legislative branch
Johann Sutter
black codes
Mayflower Compact
50. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
Central Pacific Railroad
Jose Figueroa
Georgia