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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
manifest destiny
Second Constitutional Congress
Francisco Pizarro
2. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Hopewell people
rights of the federal government
Exeter Compact
3. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Samuel de Champlain
England and the colonies: differences
French and Indian War
Japanese
4. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
manifest destiny
Dust Bowl
Great Awakening
aeorspace industry
5. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
General Stockton and General Kearney
Germans
manifest destiny
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
6. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Olmec Empire
Central Valley Project
Progressives
7. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Thirteenth Amendment
Appomattox Court
melting pot
apparel industry
8. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
The Inca Empire
Europeans in the New World
separation of powers
the conquistadores
9. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Irish
how Union defeated Confederates
initiative
black codes
10. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Gentleman's Agreement
Federalist Papers
Exeter Compact
Sugar Act
11. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
World War II
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Gulf Stream
Federalist Papers
12. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
initiative
Panama Canal
Gold
Bill of Rights
13. 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
recall
apparel industry
the Oregon Territory
Constitution
14. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
apparel industry
Toltecs
The Appalachian Mountains
15. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
acorns
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
The Aztec Empire
General Stockton
16. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
Articles of Confederation
Stamp Tax
Election of 1876
17. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Amerindians
Immigration Act of 1965
World War II
Mono Lake
18. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
November 1849
Federalist Party
Mexicans
rancho system
19. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Major battles of the Civil War
Jacksonian democracy
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Great Awakening
20. 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
Emanciptation Proclomation
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ten Percent Plan
New Government
21. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
forty - niners
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Maryland
22. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Compromise of 1850
New Government
Yorktown
23. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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24. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Jacques Cartier
Amendments
Articles of Confederation
Missouri Compromise of 1820
25. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Mexicans
The Appalachian Mountains
Henry Hudson
anti - federalists
26. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
the conquistadores
Rodney Case
southern anad eastern European
Delaware
27. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Constitutional Convention
Progressives
First Continental Congress
Panama Canal
28. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
John C. Fremont
Maryland
Irish
29. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Proclamation of 1763
Trenton
Hopewell people
Battle of Gettysberg
30. 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
Sierra Nevadas
Bear Flag Revolt
Depression of 1870
recall
31. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Great Awakening
The Industrial Era of the United States
Sebastian Cermeno
32. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The interior
Constitutional Convention
33. 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
initiative
Thirteenth Amendment
Salton Sea
Workingmen's Party
34. 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
Salton Sea
water
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Union advantage
35. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
entertainment
how Union defeated Confederates
the Great Compromise
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
36. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Ten Percent Plan
Stamp Tax
forty - niners
Yorktown
37. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Three - Fifths Compromise
rights of the federal government
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Tea Act of 1773
38. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
loose construction
Rhode Island
The southeastern Coastal Plain
39. 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
The Aztec Empire
Radical Republicans
the conquistadores
aeorspace industry
40. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Rhode Island
Hernando Cortez
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Angel Island
41. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Japanese
presidios
anti - federalists
free - soil movement
42. Southeatern California native american tribes
French and Indian War
The Mississippi River
rights of states
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
43. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Workingmen's Party
Amendments
tule
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
44. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
California
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Toltecs
Tea Act of 1773
45. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
The Maya Empire
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Mexican Independence
rights of states
46. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Anasazi culture
Mexicans
Hernando Cortes
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
47. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
black codes
Toltecs
free - soil movement
nullification
48. 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
pueblos
Proclamation of 1763
California Alien Land Act
Whig Party
49. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
legislative branch
Europeans in the New World
Democratic Republicans
French and Indian War
50. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Dust Bowl
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Battle of Gettysberg