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CSET U.S And California History

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1. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation






2. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination






3. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states






4. Central California native American tribes






5. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land






6. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension






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






8. 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






9. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach






10. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South






11. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress






12. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid






13. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal






14. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs






15. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America






16. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.






17. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states






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






19. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert






20. Drains the interior of the United States






21. 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






22. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks






23. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population






24. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats






25. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849






26. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII






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






28. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land






29. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers

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30. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge






31. 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






32. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established






33. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans






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






35. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River






36. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'






37. 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






38. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada






39. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery






40. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish






41. The two major deserts in California






42. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast






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

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






45. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged






46. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'






47. 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






48. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California






49. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy






50. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)