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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
railroad
Puritans
Silicon Valley
2. 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
Okies
tule
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Sebastian Vicaino
3. 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
Father Junipero Serra
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
free - soil movement
4. Northern California Indian tribes
recall
Great Awakening
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
tule
5. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
squatters
separation of powers
Important Battles of the Revolution
Lewis and Clark
6. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed
Pony Express
nullification
The Chinese Exclusion Act
tourism
7. 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
Thirteenth Amendment
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Industrial Era of the United States
England and the colonies: similarities
8. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Connecticut Commonwealth
November 1849
General Stockton and General Kearney
Prevailing Westerlies
9. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
Chinese
Francisco Pizarro
initiative
10. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Workingmen's Party
Yorktown
11. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Inca Empire
2002
12. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
recall
Hernando Cortez
Japanese
Irish
13. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jamestown
Jacques Cartier
Gentleman's Agreement
Louisiana Purchase
14. 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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15. 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
recall
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Constitutional Convention
16. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Mayflower Compact
Yorktown
Amendments
Chinese
17. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Jose Figueroa
Emanciptation Proclomation
secession
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
18. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Revolutionary War
Mexican American War
John C. Fremont
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
19. 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
Sir Francis Drake
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Jacques Cartier
Francisco Pizarro
20. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Maryland
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Progressives
General Stockton and General Kearney
21. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Articles of Confederation
The Declaration of Independence
Sir Francis Drake
Appomattox Court
22. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
William Penn
Compromise of 1850
Radical Republicans
Salton Sea
23. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
issue of representation under the Constitution
Henry Hudson
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
how Union defeated Confederates
24. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
Great Awakening
Revolutionary War
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
25. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Constitution
Mississippian culture
Gentleman's Agreement
26. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Mexican American War
black codes
California Alien Land Act
Appomattox Court
27. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
World War II
secession
1850
28. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
tourism
Mississippian culture
Thirteenth Amendment
'strict construction'
29. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
pueblos
separation of powers
forty - niners
30. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Immigration Act of 1965
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
First Continental Congress
31. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
1850
loose construction
Russians
32. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
November 1849
Bear Flag Revolt
Sierra Nevadas
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
33. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
French and Indian War
Mayflower Compact
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Central Pacific Railroad
34. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Bill of Rights
The Aztec Empire
Rhode Island
35. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Sierra Nevadas
Emanciptation Proclomation
Anasazi culture
nullification
36. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Constitutional Convention
War of 1812
Second Constitutional Congress
Jamestown
37. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Emanciptation Proclomation
Central Valley
Europeans in the New World
Mississippian culture
38. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
The Aztec Empire
Jacksonian democracy
entertainment
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
39. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
November 1849
Magnuson Act of 1943
judicial branch
Bill of Rights
40. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Europeans in the New World
apparel industry
French and Indian War
Constitution
41. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Bill of Rights
Watts Riots
Chinese
Radical Republicans
42. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Confederacy advanage
Constitutional Convention
Appomattox Court
43. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
free - soil movement
Constitution
Germans
Georgia
44. Drains the interior of the United States
Jose de Galves
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
referendum
The Mississippi River
45. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
The Declaration of Independence
how Union defeated Confederates
Mexican - American War
Major battles of the Civil War
46. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
apparel industry
General Stockton and General Kearney
Land Commission
The Declaration of Independence
47. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Exeter Compact
Gold
forty - niners
anti - federalists
48. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Yorktown
The Industrial Era of the United States
The Great Basin
2002
49. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
Immigration Act of 1965
Henry Hudson
John C. Fremont
50. (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
Prevailing Westerlies
The Piedmont
Major battles of the Civil War
Germans