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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
Railroad Act of 1864
the Oregon Territory
The Great Basin
2. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Central Pacific Railroad
sacred expedition
decline of the Mayan civlization
the Great Compromise
3. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Mono Lake
Rhode Island
Central Valley Project
4. A major mountain range in California
Thirteenth Amendment
Sierra Nevadas
Hopewell people
The southeastern Coastal Plain
5. 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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6. 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.
Rhode Island
how Union defeated Confederates
Proposition 13
The Declaration of Independence
7. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
War of 1812
Immigration Act of 1965
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
8. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
rights of the federal government
2002
The Appalachian Mountains
9. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
manifest destiny
California
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Angel Island
10. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Proclamation of 1763
'strict construction'
Democratic Republicans
Jacksonian democracy
11. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
The Gulf Stream
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
12. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Amendments
Puritans
Silicon Valley
water
13. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Land Commission
Europeans in the New World
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Henry Hudson
14. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
anti - federalists
melting pot
Transcontinental Railroad
Constitutional Convention
15. 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
The Mississippi River
Articles of Confederation
Workingmen's Party
Central Valley Project
16. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
Stamp Tax
Mexican American War
Uncle Tom's Cabin
17. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
black codes
secession
Father Junipero Serra
Sebastian Cermeno
18. In the eastern region of the United States
Mono Lake
tourism
executive branch
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
19. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Declaration of Independence
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Toltecs
Major battles of the Civil War
20. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
federalism
Salton Sea
World War II
Olmec Empire
21. Southern California native american tribes
Delaware
Rodney Case
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
22. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
Election of 1876
Sierra Nevadas
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
23. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
The Gulf Stream
Exeter Compact
England and the colonies: differences
Maryland
24. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Dust Bowl
Bill of Rights
General Stockton and General Kearney
25. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Commodore Sloat
entertainment
Whig Party
26. 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
Jacques Cartier
Hopewell people
Mexican American War
secession
27. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Georgia
Hernando Cortes
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
California
28. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
Sebastian Cermeno
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Delaware
Immigration Act of 1965
29. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
decline of the Mayan civlization
executive branch
Gold
reasons of American immigration
30. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Russians
The Chinese Exclusion Act
initiative
Francisco Montejo
31. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Revolutionary War
William Penn
Constitutional Convention
Mayflower Compact
32. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
southern anad eastern European
Louisiana Purchase
decline of the Mayan civlization
Japanese
33. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Chinese
England and the colonies: similarities
Federalist Party
34. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Mayflower Compact
Irish
Father Junipero Serra
35. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Hopewell people
separation of powers
pueblos
Ten Percent Plan
36. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Pueblo Indians
Modoc War
Louisiana Purchase
Francisco Pizarro
37. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Father Fermin Lausen
decline of the Mayan civlization
Uncle Tom's Cabin
French and Indian War
38. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
executive branch
Balboa
William Penn
California
39. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Hetch Hetchy Dam
The Piedmont
Magnuson Act of 1943
40. Drains the interior of the United States
Pueblo Indians
The Mississippi River
Dust Bowl
decline of the Mayan civlization
41. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Death Valley
Pueblo Indians
Rhode Island
Articles of Confederation
42. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
The interior
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
initiative
Europeans in the New World: France
43. 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
Rodney Case
executive branch
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Articles of Confederation
44. 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
Mexican American War
decline of the Mayan civlization
railroad
Balboa
45. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Sugar Act
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Mexicans
46. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
Prevailing Westerlies
The Aztec Empire
Death Valley
Transcontinental Railroad
47. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
melting pot
War of 1812
Europeans in the New World: France
John C. Fremont
48. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
acorns
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Connecticut Commonwealth
Dust Bowl
49. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Hopewell people
Sebastian Cermeno
Progressives
loose construction
50. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Depression of 1870
Europeans in the New World
Anasazi culture
Tea Act of 1773
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