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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
hydraulic mining -
forty - niners
French and Indian War
Chronological order of the colonies
2. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Francisco Montejo
Constitutional Convention
Germans
Workingmen's Party
3. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
California
Pilgrims
aeorspace industry
entertainment
4. 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
William Penn
rights of states
General Stockton and General Kearney
Balboa
5. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
entertainment
Depression of 1870
Central Valley Project
railroad
6. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Whig Party
internment camps
Constitution
Great Awakening
7. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Dust Bowl
Magnuson Act of 1943
the Great Compromise
Georgia
8. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Jacques Cartier
First Continental Congress
Bear Flag Revolt
Federalist Papers
9. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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10. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Prevailing Westerlies
issue of representation under the Constitution
sacred expedition
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
11. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
John C. Fremont
Jose de Galves
Balboa
Anasazi culture
12. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
The Continental Divide
Declaration of Independence
Central Pacific Railroad
Major battles of the Civil War
13. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
initiative
Toltecs
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Owens River
14. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
The Chinese Exclusion Act
decline of the Mayan civlization
reasons of American immigration
Intolerable Acts of 1774
15. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
War of 1812
Russians
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Mayflower Compact
16. 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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17. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Sebastian Cermeno
Modoc War
Yorktown
Anasazi culture
18. Northern California Indian tribes
Mississippian culture
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Mexicans
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
19. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Jamestown
World War II
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Election of 1876
20. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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21. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
England and the colonies: similarities
Juan Cabrillo
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Mexican Independence
22. 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
Jose Figueroa
Mexican American War
Puritans
Hopewell people
23. Drains the interior of the United States
railroad
The Great Basin
The Mississippi River
Hernando Cortez
24. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Chinese
separation of powers
Stamp Tax
Land Commission
25. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
Pony Express
The Inca Empire
The Continental Divide
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
26. 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
Panama Canal
tule
the conquistadores
The Aztec Empire
27. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Radical Republicans
Japanese
Exeter Compact
Russians
28. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
secession
Depression of 1870
presidios
Railroad Act of 1864
29. 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
separation of powers
Jose Figueroa
rights of states
Amerindians
30. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Quartering Act
apparel industry
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Owens River
31. 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
Sebastian Cermeno
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Johann Sutter
apparel industry
32. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
the conquistadores
'strict construction'
Death Valley
Jacksonian democracy
33. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
Amendments
Modoc War
Francisco Pizarro
34. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Inca Empire
judicial branch
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
35. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Union advantage
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Father Fermin Lausen
Toltecs
36. 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
rights of the federal government
Louisiana Purchase
Land Commission
Jacques Cartier
37. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Chronological order of the colonies
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Democratic Republicans
Panama Canal
38. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Francisco Montejo
secession
executive branch
Europeans in the New World: Spain
39. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
War of 1812
sacred expedition
Amendments
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
40. (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
Transcontinental Railroad
Hopewell people
Chronological order of the colonies
Rhode Island
41. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sugar Act
tourism
Land Commission
how Union defeated Confederates
42. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Stamp Tax
Okies
Trenton
recall
43. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
California Alien Land Act
Compromise of 1850
Mayflower Compact
Sebastian Cermeno
44. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World
Owens River
Toltecs
The Appalachian Mountains
45. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Jamestown
the Great Compromise
Henry Hudson
Chinese
46. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
tourism
General Stockton
Europeans in the New World: Britain
England and the colonies: similarities
47. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
California Alien Land Act
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Railroad Act of 1864
executive branch
48. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Magnuson Act of 1943
legislative branch
Chinese
rights of the federal government
49. 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
Hopewell people
Immigration Act of 1965
water
Articles of Confederation
50. 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
Bill of Rights
Europeans in the New World: France
railroad