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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Central California native American tribes
World War II
Mt. Whitney
Railroad Act of 1864
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
2. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
anti - federalists
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World: France
Proclamation of 1763
3. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
General Stockton and General Kearney
Transcontinental Railroad
The interior
4. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Mississippian culture
The Declaration of Independence
Mexican - American War
Trenton
5. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
The Great Basin
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Europeans in the New World: Spain
California
6. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Exeter Compact
Silicon Valley
Commodore Sloat
Puritans
7. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Amerindians
8. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
General Stockton and General Kearney
Great Awakening
Central Valley
9. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
initiative
Townsheld Acts of 1767
New Government
issue of representation under the Constitution
10. 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
Transcontinental Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Constitution
internment camps
11. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Louisiana Purchase
aeorspace industry
Olmec Empire
rights of states
12. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
pueblos
Central Pacific Railroad
Jacques Cartier
Federalist Papers
13. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Election of 1876
judicial branch
14. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
The Inca Empire
Gentleman's Agreement
Jose Figueroa
Japanese
15. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Henry Hudson
Russians
Commodore Sloat
Toltecs
16. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Ten Percent Plan
The Appalachian Mountains
Jacques Cartier
Owens River
17. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
reasons of American immigration
Okies
Appomattox Court
18. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Rodney Case
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Japanese
World War II
19. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
William Penn
Father Fermin Lausen
Jacques Cartier
California
20. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
Proclamation of 1763
pueblos
Articles of Confederation
21. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Sugar Act
entertainment
tule
judicial branch
22. 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
Important Battles of the Revolution
Francisco Montejo
Election of 1876
The Great Basin
23. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Intolerable Acts of 1774
loose construction
Major battles of the Civil War
Land Commission
24. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Johann Sutter
Proposition 13
Dust Bowl
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
25. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Connecticut Commonwealth
Exeter Compact
Townsheld Acts of 1767
26. People who took land from the original Californios
Mexican - American War
squatters
Bill of Rights
Land Commission
27. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
2002
Father Fermin Lausen
November 1849
The Great Basin
28. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Union advantage
Panama Canal
Amerindians
29. 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
Election of 1876
'strict construction'
England and the colonies: similarities
federalism
30. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
Depression of 1870
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Yorktown
31. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
separation of powers
melting pot
Jacksonian democracy
Panama Canal
32. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
General Stockton and General Kearney
initiative
Mexican American War
Watts Riots
33. 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
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Amerindians
Irish
34. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Railroad Act of 1864
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
executive branch
The Piedmont
35. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Federalist Papers
Election of 1876
36. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Maya Empire
Central Pacific Railroad
Europeans in the New World: Spain
37. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Thirteenth Amendment
Sir Francis Drake
merchant Sam Brannon
Declaration of Independence
38. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
rights of the federal government
Johann Sutter
tourism
decline of the Mayan civlization
39. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Bear Flag Revolt
Mexican - American War
Stamp Tax
apparel industry
40. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Commodore Sloat
Pilgrims
The Continental Divide
the Oregon Territory
41. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Federalist Party
First Continental Congress
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Railroad Act of 1864
42. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Lewis and Clark
Exeter Compact
Proposition 13
missions
43. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Tea Act of 1773
Jacques Cartier
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Central Pacific Railroad
44. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
entertainment
Trenton
General Stockton and General Kearney
Proposition 13
45. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Emanciptation Proclomation
Trenton
Owens River
2002
46. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Second Constitutional Congress
tule
Intolerable Acts of 1774
aeorspace industry
47. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
The Industrial Era of the United States
issue of representation under the Constitution
executive branch
Bill of Rights
48. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
initiative
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Whig Party
Radical Republicans
49. 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
black codes
The Maya Empire
forty - niners
50. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Depression of 1870
Delaware
Europeans in the New World: France
Intolerable Acts of 1774