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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Appomattox Court
Samuel de Champlain
Constitution
California
2. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
Battle of Gettysberg
Major battles of the Civil War
Father Junipero Serra
Federalist Papers
3. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
Georgia
England and the colonies: differences
loose construction
4. Southern California native american tribes
Pilgrims
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Anasazi culture
Gold
5. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Silicon Valley
Amerindians
Amendments
Japanese
6. 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
The Continental Divide
Modoc War
First Continental Congress
7. People who took land from the original Californios
missions
squatters
pueblos
Chinese
8. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Bear Flag Revolt
Hopewell people
Battle of Gettysberg
Bill of Rights
9. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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10. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Workingmen's Party
England and the colonies: differences
Chinese
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
11. 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
Exeter Compact
Mexicans
Magnuson Act of 1943
rights of states
12. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Pueblo Indians
Samuel de Champlain
The Inca Empire
loose construction
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
Hernando Cortez
water
hydraulic mining -
missions
14. 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
Federalist Party
black codes
The Industrial Era of the United States
Angel Island
15. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
French and Indian War
aeorspace industry
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Jose de Galves
16. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
squatters
The interior
Anasazi culture
Samuel de Champlain
17. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Georgia
Amendments
sacred expedition
Chinese
18. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
free - soil movement
Proposition 13
Battle of Gettysberg
Puritans
19. The highest point in California
First Continental Congress
The interior
Mt. Whitney
apparel industry
20. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Samuel de Champlain
Bear Flag Revolt
manifest destiny
Chinese
21. 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
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Land Commission
black codes
22. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Jacksonian democracy
Second Constitutional Congress
forty - niners
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
23. 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 Great Compromise
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Salton Sea
Francisco Pizarro
24. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Hernando Cortes
Transcontinental Railroad
The Appalachian Mountains
Important Battles of the Revolution
25. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
executive branch
Chinese
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Sebastian Vicaino
26. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
First Continental Congress
black codes
Jamestown
27. 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
Japanese
Europeans in the New World
Democratic Republicans
Jose de Galves
28. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Jamestown
Trenton
pueblos
Hernando Cortez
29. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
Jamestown
Watts Riots
issue of representation under the Constitution
30. (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
November 1849
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Ten Percent Plan
Chronological order of the colonies
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
Election of 1876
The Continental Divide
Hopewell people
southern anad eastern European
32. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
judicial branch
Exeter Compact
Mexican American War
Three - Fifths Compromise
33. 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
apparel industry
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
rights of states
Proclamation of 1763
34. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
free - soil movement
tourism
Angel Island
Europeans in the New World: Britain
35. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Exeter Compact
Olmec Empire
Hiram Johnson
36. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
Germans
southern anad eastern European
Mexican Independence
37. The central agricultural area of California
Confederacy advanage
Central Valley
anti - federalists
Europeans in the New World: Britain
38. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Mexican Independence
Gold
sacred expedition
Dust Bowl
39. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
tule
Major battles of the Civil War
Bill of Rights
40. 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
Sebastian Cermeno
Stamp Tax
Progressives
hydraulic mining -
41. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Mt. Whitney
Olmec Empire
Chinese
Irish
42. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
General Stockton
free - soil movement
Hernando Cortes
Sugar Act
43. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
Mono Lake
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Russians
44. 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.
Workingmen's Party
The Declaration of Independence
black codes
Jose Figueroa
45. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Confederacy advanage
New Government
Proposition 13
Mono Lake
46. 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
The Continental Divide
the Great Compromise
Jacques Cartier
Election of 1876
47. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
hydraulic mining -
reasons of American immigration
Ten Percent Plan
48. The two major deserts in California
Watts Riots
sacred expedition
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Yorktown
49. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Rodney Case
California
Chinese
Workingmen's Party
50. A major food staple of California native American tribes
missions
New Government
Exeter Compact
acorns
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