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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. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
the conquistadores
judicial branch
California
melting pot
2. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Chinese
Quartering Act
John C. Fremont
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
3. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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4. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Owens River
Henry Hudson
Appomattox Court
5. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
The Mississippi River
Gold
The Declaration of Independence
6. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Important Battles of the Revolution
Mono Lake
Constitution
First Continental Congress
7. 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
Articles of Confederation
The Inca Empire
The Industrial Era of the United States
Sebastian Vicaino
8. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Mayflower Compact
Francisco Montejo
Hernando Cortez
'strict construction'
9. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
entertainment
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Chinese
Irish
10. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Owens River
rights of the federal government
black codes
executive branch
11. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Olmec Empire
Sebastian Cermeno
Great Awakening
12. 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
sacred expedition
Mexicans
acorns
Constitution
13. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Anasazi culture
General Stockton
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Balboa
14. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Jacques Cartier
how Union defeated Confederates
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
15. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Samuel de Champlain
Andrew Johnson
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Sebastian Cermeno
16. 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
Hiram Johnson
Central Valley
decline of the Mayan civlization
forty - niners
17. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Bear Flag Revolt
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
free - soil movement
18. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Appomattox Court
Depression of 1870
Federalist Party
Johann Sutter
19. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Hernando Cortes
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Hetch Hetchy Dam
water
20. Central California native American tribes
The Gulf Stream
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
internment camps
21. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Delaware
Proclamation of 1763
Lewis and Clark
merchant Sam Brannon
22. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
The Gulf Stream
Hiram Johnson
Panama Canal
Georgia
23. 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
Johann Sutter
reasons of American immigration
pueblos
Federalist Party
24. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Quartering Act
reasons of American immigration
Central Valley
Tea Act of 1773
25. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
manifest destiny
Quartering Act
Death Valley
2002
26. 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
Chronological order of the colonies
Hernando Cortes
Mayflower Compact
England and the colonies: similarities
27. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Irish
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Chinese
28. 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
Henry Hudson
Articles of Confederation
apparel industry
Intolerable Acts of 1774
29. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Andrew Johnson
Transcontinental Railroad
Johann Sutter
Father Junipero Serra
30. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Hiram Johnson
merchant Sam Brannon
Magnuson Act of 1943
French and Indian War
31. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Hernando Cortes
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
free - soil movement
Railroad Act of 1864
32. 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
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Gold
Okies
Revolutionary War
33. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Japanese
Chinese
Gold
34. People who took land from the original Californios
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Father Fermin Lausen
squatters
35. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Andrew Johnson
John C. Fremont
Missouri Compromise of 1820
executive branch
36. Drains the interior of the United States
Henry Hudson
federalism
The Mississippi River
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
Tea Act of 1773
Sebastian Vicaino
secession
General Stockton
38. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
John C. Fremont
Second Constitutional Congress
black codes
Gold
39. 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
tule
Central Valley
Francisco Montejo
Democratic Republicans
40. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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41. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
The Industrial Era of the United States
the Great Compromise
presidios
42. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
War of 1812
General Stockton
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Federalist Papers
43. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mexican - American War
Balboa
William Penn
44. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
the Great Compromise
Battle of Gettysberg
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
45. 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
Compromise of 1850
recall
Jacques Cartier
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
46. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Maryland
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
black codes
Connecticut Commonwealth
47. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
legislative branch
judicial branch
Bear Flag Revolt
Mayflower Compact
48. 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.
Hernando Cortes
The Declaration of Independence
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Gentleman's Agreement
49. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Commodore Sloat
separation of powers
Jacksonian democracy
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
50. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Yorktown
decline of the Mayan civlization
California Alien Land Act
Compromise of 1850