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CSET U.S And California History

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1. 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






2. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers






3. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains






4. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state






5. A major food staple of California native American tribes






6. The year and month that California approves its first constitution






7. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II






8. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services






9. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure






10. 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






11. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power






12. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government






13. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers






14. 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






15. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities






16. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together






17. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s






18. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest






19. Broad interpretation of the Constitution






20. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah






21. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)






22. 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






23. 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






24. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate






25. The lowest point in California






26. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money






27. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories






28. 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






29. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown






30. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire






31. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states






32. The central agricultural area of California






33. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population






34. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free

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35. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States






36. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada






37. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws






38. The first declaration of self - government in the New World






39. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death






40. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there






41. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest






42. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures






43. 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






44. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey






45. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California






46. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America






47. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government






48. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico






49. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi






50. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos







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