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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
Proposition 13
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
1850
2. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
melting pot
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Mexican American War
2002
3. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Dust Bowl
Panama Canal
California
Confederacy advanage
4. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Balboa
aeorspace industry
decline of the Mayan civlization
Yorktown
5. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Hetch Hetchy Dam
reasons of American immigration
Okies
6. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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7. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Georgia
Francisco Pizarro
Bill of Rights
Death Valley
8. 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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9. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Jamestown
World War II
Germans
forty - niners
10. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Owens River
The Appalachian Mountains
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Second Constitutional Congress
11. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
Pilgrims
Federalist Party
Union advantage
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
Central Pacific Railroad
Prevailing Westerlies
Mono Lake
Francisco Pizarro
13. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Central Valley Project
Delaware
Railroad Act of 1864
The Declaration of Independence
14. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
The Maya Empire
The Piedmont
John C. Fremont
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
15. 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 Oregon Territory
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Radical Republicans
16. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Transcontinental Railroad
Second Constitutional Congress
Trenton
17. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Silicon Valley
Pueblo Indians
Important Battles of the Revolution
Johann Sutter
18. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Samuel de Champlain
Pueblo Indians
Federalist Party
Mexicans
19. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
First Continental Congress
Irish
Declaration of Independence
Father Junipero Serra
20. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
Francisco Pizarro
War of 1812
The Appalachian Mountains
21. 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
Lewis and Clark
Immigration Act of 1965
Connecticut Commonwealth
Constitutional Convention
22. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
referendum
Great Awakening
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Rodney Case
23. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
rights of the federal government
secession
Articles of Confederation
24. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Union advantage
The Continental Divide
New Government
Whig Party
25. 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
Hernando Cortez
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Mississippi River
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
26. 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
Jacques Cartier
The Inca Empire
how Union defeated Confederates
Hernando Cortez
27. 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
pueblos
Amerindians
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
California Alien Land Act
28. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Irish
Articles of Confederation
Second Constitutional Congress
29. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Railroad Act of 1864
tourism
decline of the Mayan civlization
pueblos
30. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Andrew Johnson
New Government
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
pueblos
31. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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32. 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
Yorktown
Magnuson Act of 1943
War of 1812
free - soil movement
33. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Pony Express
Federalist Party
The Piedmont
Major battles of the Civil War
34. 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
Federalist Papers
Balboa
Francisco Pizarro
Salton Sea
35. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Revolutionary War
Second Constitutional Congress
The Appalachian Mountains
Irish
36. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
free - soil movement
Death Valley
federalism
The Continental Divide
37. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
2002
acorns
Johann Sutter
Revolutionary War
38. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Commodore Sloat
Father Fermin Lausen
Toltecs
Death Valley
39. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Commodore Sloat
Radical Republicans
Thirteenth Amendment
Mt. Whitney
40. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Juan Cabrillo
judicial branch
Pueblo Indians
Declaration of Independence
41. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Prevailing Westerlies
Silicon Valley
anti - federalists
Jacksonian democracy
42. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Mexicans
General Stockton
General Stockton and General Kearney
Three - Fifths Compromise
43. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
Emanciptation Proclomation
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Articles of Confederation
Panama Canal
44. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Revolutionary War
Puritans
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
presidios
45. Drains the interior of the United States
Battle of Gettysberg
The Mississippi River
Maryland
Hernando Cortez
46. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Chronological order of the colonies
federalism
Prevailing Westerlies
47. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
First Continental Congress
tourism
black codes
Mexican - American War
48. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Amendments
War of 1812
Immigration Act of 1965
49. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Jacksonian democracy
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Andrew Johnson
apparel industry
50. 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
Jacksonian democracy
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Mayflower Compact
referendum
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