SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET U.S And California History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
cset
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Commodore Sloat
referendum
The Gulf Stream
2. 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
Thirteenth Amendment
judicial branch
Tea Act of 1773
initiative
3. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
entertainment
hydraulic mining -
pueblos
The Inca Empire
4. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
merchant Sam Brannon
Central Valley
Federalist Party
5. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
6. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Puritans
tule
Whig Party
7. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
acorns
Three - Fifths Compromise
8. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
railroad
William Penn
Father Fermin Lausen
Articles of Confederation
9. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Henry Hudson
pueblos
southern anad eastern European
melting pot
10. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Andrew Johnson
General Stockton
separation of powers
the Oregon Territory
11. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
Whig Party
Appomattox Court
Mayflower Compact
12. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Irish
Federalist Party
French and Indian War
England and the colonies: differences
13. Drains the interior of the United States
The Mississippi River
Democratic Republicans
merchant Sam Brannon
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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
Compromise of 1850
Toltecs
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Revolutionary War
15. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Immigration Act of 1965
Mexican - American War
The Appalachian Mountains
Major battles of the Civil War
16. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Puritans
The Mississippi River
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Proposition 13
17. 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
Exeter Compact
Hernando Cortez
issue of representation under the Constitution
Modoc War
18. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Dust Bowl
Europeans in the New World
Amendments
The Aztec Empire
19. In the eastern region of the United States
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Hiram Johnson
Sebastian Cermeno
20. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Central Pacific Railroad
The Appalachian Mountains
Europeans in the New World: France
Okies
21. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
aeorspace industry
Great Awakening
General Stockton and General Kearney
22. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
General Stockton
2002
Irish
23. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Hopewell people
Europeans in the New World
federalism
nullification
24. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Francisco Pizarro
black codes
Quartering Act
rancho system
25. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Chronological order of the colonies
John C. Fremont
Workingmen's Party
Dust Bowl
26. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
black codes
nullification
rancho system
entertainment
27. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Mayflower Compact
nullification
sacred expedition
reasons of American immigration
28. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
melting pot
tule
Gold
executive branch
29. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Second Constitutional Congress
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Silicon Valley
water
30. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
rancho system
Commodore Sloat
Pueblo Indians
Europeans in the New World: Britain
31. 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
Balboa
England and the colonies: differences
how Union defeated Confederates
California Alien Land Act
32. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Dust Bowl
The Mississippi River
Olmec Empire
presidios
33. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
recall
Yorktown
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Hernando Cortez
34. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Major battles of the Civil War
Juan Cabrillo
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Progressives
35. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
November 1849
Major battles of the Civil War
Juan Cabrillo
Bill of Rights
36. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
37. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
The Maya Empire
Chinese
Tea Act of 1773
38. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Battle of Gettysberg
The Declaration of Independence
The Gulf Stream
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
39. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
hydraulic mining -
Puritans
entertainment
Francisco Pizarro
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
the Oregon Territory
Mexican Independence
Mono Lake
The Industrial Era of the United States
41. A major food staple of California native American tribes
manifest destiny
Tea Act of 1773
Watts Riots
acorns
42. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Russians
Progressives
Father Fermin Lausen
43. 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
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Revolutionary War
Immigration Act of 1965
44. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
William Penn
Amerindians
Transcontinental Railroad
45. 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
Hiram Johnson
initiative
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Battle of Gettysberg
46. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Jacksonian democracy
Maryland
Europeans in the New World: Britain
47. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
manifest destiny
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Hopewell people
issue of representation under the Constitution
48. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
rights of states
Amendments
Panama Canal
recall
49. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Father Fermin Lausen
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Dust Bowl
Great Awakening
50. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Salton Sea
Owens River
Second Constitutional Congress
November 1849