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CSET U.S And California History
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1. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Johann Sutter
California Alien Land Act
issue of representation under the Constitution
forty - niners
2. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
missions
Hopewell people
William Penn
Mexican American War
3. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Battle of Gettysberg
entertainment
Toltecs
Salton Sea
4. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Quartering Act
Toltecs
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
5. 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
Rodney Case
Land Commission
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Olmec Empire
6. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
French and Indian War
railroad
The Maya Empire
Election of 1876
7. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
aeorspace industry
French and Indian War
8. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Amerindians
Mexican - American War
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
9. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Gentleman's Agreement
Francisco Montejo
tourism
Toltecs
10. In the eastern region of the United States
Sebastian Vicaino
Appomattox Court
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
New Government
11. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Radical Republicans
railroad
Chronological order of the colonies
Gold
12. 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
Mono Lake
Anasazi culture
Jose de Galves
Federalist Papers
13. Lincoln's vice president became president
The Maya Empire
Death Valley
issue of representation under the Constitution
Andrew Johnson
14. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
rights of the federal government
Maryland
Lewis and Clark
Commodore Sloat
15. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
merchant Sam Brannon
Francisco Montejo
Puritans
Mexican - American War
16. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
Federalist Party
The Gulf Stream
Gold
southern anad eastern European
17. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
referendum
anti - federalists
pueblos
Angel Island
18. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Trenton
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Louisiana Purchase
Jamestown
19. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
merchant Sam Brannon
decline of the Mayan civlization
reasons of American immigration
Jacksonian democracy
20. 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
rancho system
Tea Act of 1773
Jose de Galves
War of 1812
21. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Gold
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
22. 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
Commodore Sloat
Union advantage
Bill of Rights
rights of states
23. 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
Mexican American War
Proposition 13
Amendments
The Declaration of Independence
24. 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
Central Valley
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
2002
Balboa
25. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
California Alien Land Act
Angel Island
26. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Salton Sea
The interior
Amendments
27. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Prevailing Westerlies
The Maya Empire
Articles of Confederation
28. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
The interior
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Europeans in the New World: France
War of 1812
29. 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
Mexican American War
Irish
Amerindians
Jacques Cartier
30. 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
rights of states
Hernando Cortez
Transcontinental Railroad
31. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Chronological order of the colonies
Juan Cabrillo
Jose Figueroa
Confederacy advanage
32. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jamestown
Rodney Case
secession
Jacques Cartier
33. 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
entertainment
Mexicans
Immigration Act of 1965
The southeastern Coastal Plain
34. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Trenton
Lewis and Clark
The Maya Empire
apparel industry
35. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
Angel Island
The Gulf Stream
Rodney Case
36. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
England and the colonies: similarities
1850
Angel Island
37. Southeatern California native american tribes
England and the colonies: similarities
tourism
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Johann Sutter
38. 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
secession
Workingmen's Party
Hernando Cortes
General Stockton and General Kearney
39. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Delaware
Maryland
Jose de Galves
missions
40. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Sir Francis Drake
railroad
Three - Fifths Compromise
Panama Canal
41. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
forty - niners
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Chinese
Constitution
42. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Federalist Papers
entertainment
Exeter Compact
General Stockton and General Kearney
43. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Prevailing Westerlies
apparel industry
Henry Hudson
44. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
General Stockton
Mexicans
The Industrial Era of the United States
Europeans in the New World: France
45. 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
Amendments
hydraulic mining -
The interior
Samuel de Champlain
46. 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
Radical Republicans
acorns
the Oregon Territory
Ten Percent Plan
47. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Hernando Cortez
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Toltecs
48. 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
John C. Fremont
internment camps
initiative
Battle of Gettysberg
49. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
John C. Fremont
World War II
Pony Express
50. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Battle of Gettysberg
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Depression of 1870