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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Transcontinental Railroad
Trenton
Bill of Rights
judicial branch
2. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
1850
Angel Island
Whig Party
Appomattox Court
3. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
how Union defeated Confederates
black codes
Mayflower Compact
Olmec Empire
4. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Central Valley Project
Appomattox Court
Johann Sutter
5. Gave southerneers a stronger fugitive slave law and popular sovereignty (territories would have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to adopt slavery on their borders) over newly conquered Mexico areas in exchange for Califor
The Continental Divide
California Alien Land Act
Compromise of 1850
presidios
6. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Mayflower Compact
the Oregon Territory
The interior
anti - federalists
7. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Panama Canal
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Democratic Republicans
8. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Emanciptation Proclomation
Ten Percent Plan
The Aztec Empire
separation of powers
9. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Connecticut Commonwealth
Three - Fifths Compromise
Mexican Independence
Toltecs
10. A major food staple of California native American tribes
acorns
Francisco Montejo
The Inca Empire
Owens River
11. 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
Workingmen's Party
hydraulic mining -
Mexican - American War
Balboa
12. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Europeans in the New World
Mexicans
Central Pacific Railroad
Okies
13. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
The Piedmont
World War II
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Johann Sutter
14. 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
The Maya Empire
Pony Express
Mexican - American War
legislative branch
15. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Thirteenth Amendment
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
melting pot
Germans
16. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Irish
rights of states
Russians
17. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Appalachian Mountains
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
18. The two major deserts in California
Proposition 13
William Penn
southern anad eastern European
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
19. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
presidios
California Alien Land Act
Federalist Papers
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
20. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Transcontinental Railroad
The Declaration of Independence
Magnuson Act of 1943
21. The lowest point in California
decline of the Mayan civlization
Hernando Cortez
the Oregon Territory
Death Valley
22. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
General Stockton
Johann Sutter
Death Valley
Railroad Act of 1864
23. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
Chronological order of the colonies
Irish
Trenton
Bill of Rights
24. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Central Valley
General Stockton and General Kearney
Russians
Mexican - American War
25. People who took land from the original Californios
separation of powers
squatters
Chinese
recall
26. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
Jacksonian democracy
Chinese
Revolutionary War
secession
27. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
Puritans
Appomattox Court
Mexican American War
Bill of Rights
28. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
black codes
Sebastian Cermeno
Great Awakening
rights of the federal government
29. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
railroad
Hiram Johnson
Progressives
Land Commission
30. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
legislative branch
Proclamation of 1763
sacred expedition
31. 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
Mexican Independence
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Dust Bowl
32. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Federalist Papers
Amendments
William Penn
The Mississippi River
33. 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
Revolutionary War
Connecticut Commonwealth
Radical Republicans
federalism
34. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Pony Express
Maryland
Panama Canal
35. 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
issue of representation under the Constitution
Workingmen's Party
The Industrial Era of the United States
Europeans in the New World
36. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Delaware
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Quartering Act
free - soil movement
37. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Chinese
tule
Bill of Rights
Townsheld Acts of 1767
38. 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
issue of representation under the Constitution
melting pot
Union advantage
Balboa
39. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
referendum
sacred expedition
judicial branch
Europeans in the New World: Spain
40. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Rodney Case
Mexican - American War
Mississippian culture
41. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Commodore Sloat
Owens River
southern anad eastern European
Depression of 1870
42. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Okies
Jamestown
the Great Compromise
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
Balboa
Mexican American War
Jacksonian democracy
Central Pacific Railroad
44. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Land Commission
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
The Great Basin
Maryland
45. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Toltecs
Emanciptation Proclomation
Quartering Act
England and the colonies: differences
46. 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
Johann Sutter
November 1849
Election of 1876
First Continental Congress
47. 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
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Radical Republicans
Articles of Confederation
Hiram Johnson
48. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Toltecs
The Inca Empire
Magnuson Act of 1943
Railroad Act of 1864
49. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
Bill of Rights
Trenton
how Union defeated Confederates
50. Central California native American tribes
Rodney Case
Hopewell people
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Thirteenth Amendment