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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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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2. 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
referendum
Bear Flag Revolt
November 1849
3. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
pueblos
Commodore Sloat
manifest destiny
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
4. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
November 1849
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
loose construction
Death Valley
5. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
initiative
Union advantage
Ten Percent Plan
6. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Hiram Johnson
1850
The Piedmont
Europeans in the New World: Britain
7. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
federalism
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Sebastian Cermeno
8. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Mexican American War
merchant Sam Brannon
Gold
the Oregon Territory
9. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Progressives
Jamestown
black codes
Modoc War
10. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
Mayflower Compact
Depression of 1870
internment camps
Proclamation of 1763
11. 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
William Penn
The southeastern Coastal Plain
secession
Irish
12. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
The Gulf Stream
Mono Lake
Mississippian culture
California
13. 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
Gold
California
forty - niners
Dust Bowl
14. 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
Land Commission
Jacksonian democracy
Sebastian Vicaino
Pilgrims
15. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Second Constitutional Congress
Radical Republicans
Germans
Central Valley
16. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Maryland
Thirteenth Amendment
17. People who took land from the original Californios
decline of the Mayan civlization
squatters
Father Junipero Serra
The Chinese Exclusion Act
18. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed
Yorktown
Pony Express
Samuel de Champlain
Europeans in the New World: Spain
19. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
War of 1812
Anasazi culture
The southeastern Coastal Plain
20. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Jose de Galves
Whig Party
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
21. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
The Continental Divide
referendum
melting pot
Thirteenth Amendment
22. A major mountain range in California
Land Commission
Mayflower Compact
Sierra Nevadas
Okies
23. 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.
Hiram Johnson
The Inca Empire
The Declaration of Independence
Connecticut Commonwealth
24. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
World War II
First Continental Congress
25. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
internment camps
Georgia
General Stockton
Anasazi culture
26. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Democratic Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Bill of Rights
Henry Hudson
27. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
Confederacy advanage
World War II
November 1849
28. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Election of 1876
executive branch
Proposition 13
entertainment
29. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
initiative
Democratic Republicans
Sebastian Vicaino
judicial branch
30. 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
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Jose de Galves
Jamestown
The Mississippi River
31. 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
Sebastian Vicaino
Emanciptation Proclomation
initiative
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
32. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Bill of Rights
judicial branch
The Great Basin
Jacksonian democracy
33. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
rights of states
Bill of Rights
forty - niners
water
34. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
35. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Land Commission
Jacques Cartier
Maryland
Amendments
36. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
California Alien Land Act
Mississippian culture
Proclamation of 1763
37. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Balboa
Central Pacific Railroad
The Aztec Empire
free - soil movement
38. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Articles of Confederation
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Second Constitutional Congress
Confederacy advanage
39. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Proclamation of 1763
the conquistadores
Federalist Party
Mexican Independence
40. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
Balboa
Dust Bowl
Salton Sea
41. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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42. 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
Chronological order of the colonies
Andrew Johnson
Democratic Republicans
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
43. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Johann Sutter
Anasazi culture
Sebastian Cermeno
44. 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
Francisco Pizarro
Lewis and Clark
War of 1812
Uncle Tom's Cabin
45. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Chronological order of the colonies
Hiram Johnson
Anasazi culture
Central Valley
46. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Silicon Valley
Father Fermin Lausen
The Appalachian Mountains
Jose Figueroa
47. 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
recall
Transcontinental Railroad
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Central Valley
48. 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
First Continental Congress
hydraulic mining -
Chinese
Dust Bowl
49. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
The Piedmont
Constitution
Transcontinental Railroad
railroad
50. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
judicial branch
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Andrew Johnson
Lewis and Clark