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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Chronological order of the colonies
French and Indian War
Mississippian culture
Sebastian Vicaino
2. The highest point in California
1850
Important Battles of the Revolution
Mt. Whitney
Central Pacific Railroad
3. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
presidios
Constitutional Convention
4. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
William Penn
Jose Figueroa
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Owens River
5. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
missions
Mono Lake
Toltecs
Delaware
6. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
Democratic Republicans
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
water
southern anad eastern European
7. 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
Louisiana Purchase
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Okies
8. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
The Industrial Era of the United States
Emanciptation Proclomation
Transcontinental Railroad
Major battles of the Civil War
9. In the eastern region of the United States
Chronological order of the colonies
entertainment
French and Indian War
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
10. 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
Bill of Rights
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Missouri Compromise of 1820
black codes
11. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Chinese
2002
railroad
sacred expedition
12. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
judicial branch
Death Valley
Trenton
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
13. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Hernando Cortes
England and the colonies: similarities
nullification
14. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Jacques Cartier
Pony Express
judicial branch
Prevailing Westerlies
15. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
manifest destiny
Townsheld Acts of 1767
anti - federalists
16. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Transcontinental Railroad
War of 1812
General Stockton and General Kearney
17. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
Angel Island
Toltecs
The Gulf Stream
18. 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
The Aztec Empire
The Industrial Era of the United States
World War II
Articles of Confederation
19. 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
entertainment
Proclamation of 1763
federalism
Confederacy advanage
20. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Emanciptation Proclomation
Federalist Papers
Maryland
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
21. 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
The Mississippi River
Constitution
The interior
Radical Republicans
22. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Declaration of Independence
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Owens River
23. 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
Lewis and Clark
Tea Act of 1773
Transcontinental Railroad
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
24. 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
Henry Hudson
Balboa
Louisiana Purchase
Mexicans
25. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
how Union defeated Confederates
Central Valley
Trenton
Thirteenth Amendment
26. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
southern anad eastern European
The interior
Land Commission
Magnuson Act of 1943
27. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
the Oregon Territory
judicial branch
tule
Central Valley
28. A major food staple of California native American tribes
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
acorns
Angel Island
Three - Fifths Compromise
29. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
The Aztec Empire
Mt. Whitney
Olmec Empire
30. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Trenton
Germans
Georgia
Salton Sea
31. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
War of 1812
Francisco Montejo
John C. Fremont
Stamp Tax
32. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
tule
Sebastian Cermeno
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mono Lake
33. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Quartering Act
Thirteenth Amendment
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
34. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
Second Constitutional Congress
The Inca Empire
Prevailing Westerlies
referendum
35. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
1850
Mexican Independence
Bear Flag Revolt
initiative
36. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Battle of Gettysberg
Sebastian Cermeno
The Maya Empire
37. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Emanciptation Proclomation
Declaration of Independence
Hiram Johnson
Yorktown
38. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Jose de Galves
Land Commission
War of 1812
39. The central agricultural area of California
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Central Valley
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
hydraulic mining -
40. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Hernando Cortez
Pilgrims
initiative
41. The lowest point in California
apparel industry
Death Valley
Stamp Tax
The Continental Divide
42. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
2002
Father Fermin Lausen
Appomattox Court
Yorktown
43. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Mono Lake
General Stockton and General Kearney
The Chinese Exclusion Act
decline of the Mayan civlization
44. 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
General Stockton
Election of 1876
England and the colonies: similarities
rancho system
45. 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
Maryland
The Maya Empire
initiative
Jose de Galves
46. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Chronological order of the colonies
Workingmen's Party
The interior
Trenton
47. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
2002
California Alien Land Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
referendum
48. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
England and the colonies: similarities
the Great Compromise
Rhode Island
Europeans in the New World: Spain
49. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
Prevailing Westerlies
The Piedmont
forty - niners
Jose Figueroa
50. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Henry Hudson
Sierra Nevadas
General Stockton