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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Hopewell people
William Penn
Japanese
2. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Russians
Lewis and Clark
World War II
Mono Lake
3. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Central Pacific Railroad
2002
Commodore Sloat
Sir Francis Drake
4. 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
'strict construction'
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Central Pacific Railroad
Ten Percent Plan
5. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
The Piedmont
Progressives
Major battles of the Civil War
6. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
hydraulic mining -
Puritans
2002
the conquistadores
7. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Puritans
tule
Okies
railroad
8. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Quartering Act
aeorspace industry
Amerindians
Sebastian Vicaino
9. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Union advantage
separation of powers
The Aztec Empire
Yorktown
10. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
New Government
2002
tule
reasons of American immigration
11. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Jose de Galves
Samuel de Champlain
Europeans in the New World: France
Sierra Nevadas
12. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Transcontinental Railroad
The interior
Bill of Rights
Intolerable Acts of 1774
13. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
Jacksonian democracy
Radical Republicans
rancho system
14. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Francisco Montejo
Battle of Gettysberg
Railroad Act of 1864
aeorspace industry
15. 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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16. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
First Continental Congress
Owens River
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
17. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
separation of powers
sacred expedition
anti - federalists
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
18. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
entertainment
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Death Valley
Hernando Cortez
19. Southern California native american tribes
November 1849
internment camps
Central Pacific Railroad
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
20. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Irish
reasons of American immigration
Tea Act of 1773
The Piedmont
21. 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
rights of states
Panama Canal
1850
Revolutionary War
22. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
Compromise of 1850
Confederacy advanage
forty - niners
23. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
The Mississippi River
entertainment
Transcontinental Railroad
Bear Flag Revolt
24. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
Hopewell people
Pony Express
Mexican Independence
25. 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
War of 1812
Toltecs
legislative branch
26. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Rhode Island
judicial branch
nullification
The Industrial Era of the United States
27. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Death Valley
Stamp Tax
Mayflower Compact
28. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
The Aztec Empire
French and Indian War
Gold
England and the colonies: differences
29. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Andrew Johnson
Germans
manifest destiny
Pueblo Indians
30. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
England and the colonies: similarities
French and Indian War
Stamp Tax
31. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
The Continental Divide
rancho system
1850
Puritans
32. 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
Puritans
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
33. 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
Quartering Act
railroad
Germans
34. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Union advantage
Father Fermin Lausen
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
New Government
35. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
forty - niners
The southeastern Coastal Plain
manifest destiny
Silicon Valley
36. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Amerindians
The Gulf Stream
Hetch Hetchy Dam
reasons of American immigration
37. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Proposition 13
Hernando Cortes
'strict construction'
acorns
38. 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
Missouri Compromise of 1820
England and the colonies: differences
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Mt. Whitney
39. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Angel Island
The Piedmont
Johann Sutter
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
40. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Mississippi River
Pueblo Indians
Europeans in the New World: France
41. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Death Valley
Commodore Sloat
Progressives
42. 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
Sebastian Cermeno
recall
Emanciptation Proclomation
initiative
43. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Japanese
Appomattox Court
Modoc War
Juan Cabrillo
44. 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
Mexican American War
secession
Japanese
hydraulic mining -
45. 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
merchant Sam Brannon
Mississippian culture
Chronological order of the colonies
Mexican American War
46. 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
southern anad eastern European
Compromise of 1850
Constitution
Federalist Papers
47. 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
Irish
The Industrial Era of the United States
federalism
southern anad eastern European
48. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Balboa
The Industrial Era of the United States
Watts Riots
Transcontinental Railroad
49. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Owens River
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Anasazi culture
50. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Union advantage
Second Constitutional Congress
World War II
Balboa