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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
southern anad eastern European
Constitution
Stamp Tax
pueblos
2. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Proposition 13
tule
Depression of 1870
Hiram Johnson
3. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Mt. Whitney
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Pony Express
Intolerable Acts of 1774
4. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
French and Indian War
November 1849
merchant Sam Brannon
Mexican American War
5. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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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
Angel Island
Democratic Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Rodney Case
7. 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
recall
William Penn
nullification
Mono Lake
8. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
Rhode Island
free - soil movement
Whig Party
9. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
rights of the federal government
judicial branch
Depression of 1870
legislative branch
10. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Europeans in the New World: France
Connecticut Commonwealth
Major battles of the Civil War
Trenton
11. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
federalism
executive branch
apparel industry
decline of the Mayan civlization
12. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
hydraulic mining -
Important Battles of the Revolution
tourism
Puritans
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
issue of representation under the Constitution
judicial branch
Mexican - American War
Hernando Cortes
14. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Workingmen's Party
Jose Figueroa
free - soil movement
Samuel de Champlain
15. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Balboa
The Declaration of Independence
Tea Act of 1773
Transcontinental Railroad
16. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Jacksonian democracy
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Europeans in the New World
17. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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18. 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
anti - federalists
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Hopewell people
Stamp Tax
19. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
hydraulic mining -
The Inca Empire
Europeans in the New World: Spain
2002
20. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Owens River
Gold
21. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Hiram Johnson
Russians
The interior
Modoc War
22. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Depression of 1870
French and Indian War
The Inca Empire
southern anad eastern European
23. 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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24. 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
Pilgrims
Amerindians
free - soil movement
25. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Father Fermin Lausen
Three - Fifths Compromise
Maryland
Jacksonian democracy
26. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Watts Riots
Prevailing Westerlies
Amerindians
Hernando Cortez
27. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
railroad
Bill of Rights
Central Valley Project
Pilgrims
28. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Rhode Island
Olmec Empire
Mayflower Compact
Constitutional Convention
29. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Francisco Montejo
Sebastian Vicaino
New Government
Europeans in the New World: Britain
30. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Father Fermin Lausen
Anasazi culture
Radical Republicans
The Mississippi River
31. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
rights of states
Francisco Montejo
Stamp Tax
Germans
32. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
War of 1812
free - soil movement
Transcontinental Railroad
William Penn
33. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
free - soil movement
Modoc War
pueblos
34. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
melting pot
Amerindians
reasons of American immigration
pueblos
35. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Quartering Act
The Inca Empire
Japanese
Bill of Rights
36. 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
manifest destiny
The Gulf Stream
Prevailing Westerlies
black codes
37. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
tourism
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
initiative
Pueblo Indians
38. 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
Bill of Rights
Prevailing Westerlies
Pueblo Indians
39. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
California Alien Land Act
Olmec Empire
tourism
Progressives
40. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
referendum
Hiram Johnson
Amendments
2002
41. 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
Sebastian Cermeno
Hernando Cortes
The Inca Empire
Important Battles of the Revolution
42. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Watts Riots
Commodore Sloat
Transcontinental Railroad
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
43. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
French and Indian War
Hernando Cortes
44. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
World War II
aeorspace industry
Sugar Act
acorns
45. 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
nullification
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
46. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
recall
Sir Francis Drake
Bill of Rights
Pilgrims
47. Conduct elections - ratify amendments to constitution - issue licenses - regulate intrastate (within state) to business - establish local governments - take measures for public health and safety - any other powers that the Constitution does not reser
apparel industry
rights of states
Exeter Compact
Chronological order of the colonies
48. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
secession
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Bill of Rights
recall
49. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
Depression of 1870
loose construction
Hernando Cortes
50. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Exeter Compact
Constitutional Convention
Depression of 1870
Juan Cabrillo