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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
Hopewell people
Prevailing Westerlies
Juan Cabrillo
2. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Whig Party
Federalist Papers
Bear Flag Revolt
Jose Figueroa
3. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Chinese
Panama Canal
Germans
Pueblo Indians
4. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Central Valley
Silicon Valley
Radical Republicans
General Stockton and General Kearney
5. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Constitutional Convention
manifest destiny
anti - federalists
reasons of American immigration
6. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
The interior
black codes
Balboa
Thirteenth Amendment
7. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Union advantage
forty - niners
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Mexican Independence
8. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Constitutional Convention
Hernando Cortes
Juan Cabrillo
Death Valley
9. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
Great Awakening
reasons of American immigration
'strict construction'
10. 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
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Great Basin
Land Commission
Intolerable Acts of 1774
11. Drains the interior of the United States
French and Indian War
Balboa
The Mississippi River
Jacques Cartier
12. Central California native American tribes
John C. Fremont
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Rhode Island
Transcontinental Railroad
13. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
The Maya Empire
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Constitutional Convention
14. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Maryland
southern anad eastern European
tule
issue of representation under the Constitution
15. (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
Chronological order of the colonies
Constitutional Convention
French and Indian War
water
16. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Commodore Sloat
rights of the federal government
Amendments
17. 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
Confederacy advanage
Gold
referendum
forty - niners
18. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Europeans in the New World: France
Bear Flag Revolt
Hiram Johnson
19. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Central Valley Project
General Stockton and General Kearney
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Land Commission
20. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Hiram Johnson
railroad
The Continental Divide
Mt. Whitney
21. 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
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
black codes
Gold
Europeans in the New World: Spain
22. 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 Inca Empire
forty - niners
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Election of 1876
23. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
California
England and the colonies: similarities
The Mississippi River
24. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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25. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Townsheld Acts of 1767
initiative
anti - federalists
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
26. 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
free - soil movement
secession
Salton Sea
Hopewell people
27. The highest point in California
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Mayflower Compact
referendum
Mt. Whitney
28. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Anasazi culture
Owens River
Russians
World War II
29. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
November 1849
The Great Basin
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Chronological order of the colonies
30. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
railroad
hydraulic mining -
Father Fermin Lausen
Appomattox Court
31. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
William Penn
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Salton Sea
Europeans in the New World
32. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Rodney Case
Land Commission
Silicon Valley
33. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Workingmen's Party
squatters
separation of powers
34. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sugar Act
Dust Bowl
Mexican - American War
presidios
35. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
1850
Whig Party
The Maya Empire
36. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Chinese
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
executive branch
merchant Sam Brannon
37. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Tea Act of 1773
Angel Island
Europeans in the New World: Spain
38. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
how Union defeated Confederates
39. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Chinese
Lewis and Clark
War of 1812
40. 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
Stamp Tax
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Yorktown
Mayflower Compact
41. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Mono Lake
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Francisco Pizarro
Maryland
42. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Transcontinental Railroad
Bill of Rights
federalism
43. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Declaration of Independence
rights of the federal government
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Father Junipero Serra
44. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Balboa
Europeans in the New World: France
rights of states
the conquistadores
45. 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
England and the colonies: differences
missions
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Silicon Valley
46. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Whig Party
Second Constitutional Congress
World War II
legislative branch
47. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
rights of the federal government
Major battles of the Civil War
Emanciptation Proclomation
Sugar Act
48. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
California Alien Land Act
executive branch
Quartering Act
Europeans in the New World: Spain
49. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
loose construction
internment camps
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Magnuson Act of 1943
50. 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
Jacques Cartier
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
hydraulic mining -