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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
Dust Bowl
rights of states
The Continental Divide
Great Awakening
2. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
issue of representation under the Constitution
The Gulf Stream
The Piedmont
Important Battles of the Revolution
3. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Pueblo Indians
New Government
Three - Fifths Compromise
4. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
California
reasons of American immigration
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Jose de Galves
5. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Sebastian Cermeno
Angel Island
Hopewell people
Sierra Nevadas
6. 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
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Progressives
Francisco Montejo
7. 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.
legislative branch
The Declaration of Independence
Panama Canal
1850
8. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Confederacy advanage
Constitutional Convention
Hopewell people
Anasazi culture
9. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Confederacy advanage
French and Indian War
Revolutionary War
Transcontinental Railroad
10. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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11. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
decline of the Mayan civlization
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
12. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Mexican Independence
decline of the Mayan civlization
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
13. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Juan Cabrillo
Ten Percent Plan
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Panama Canal
14. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Japanese
Europeans in the New World
Immigration Act of 1965
15. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
California Alien Land Act
decline of the Mayan civlization
how Union defeated Confederates
French and Indian War
16. 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
missions
Jose de Galves
Transcontinental Railroad
Sierra Nevadas
17. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Constitution
Federalist Papers
Commodore Sloat
Hopewell people
18. Conduct elections - ratify amendments to constitution - issue licenses - regulate intrastate (within state) to business - establish local governments - take measures for public health and safety - any other powers that the Constitution does not reser
rights of states
'strict construction'
Hernando Cortes
Juan Cabrillo
19. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
legislative branch
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Appomattox Court
War of 1812
20. 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 states
rights of the federal government
Pilgrims
French and Indian War
21. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
acorns
Europeans in the New World: France
merchant Sam Brannon
Louisiana Purchase
22. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Olmec Empire
Thirteenth Amendment
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Sir Francis Drake
23. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
separation of powers
The Piedmont
Toltecs
Georgia
24. The highest point in California
The Industrial Era of the United States
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Mt. Whitney
25. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
The Continental Divide
Russians
Second Constitutional Congress
squatters
26. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Amerindians
Great Awakening
Hiram Johnson
Trenton
27. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Father Junipero Serra
Mayflower Compact
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Intolerable Acts of 1774
28. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Andrew Johnson
separation of powers
Death Valley
29. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
pueblos
Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Appalachian Mountains
30. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
The Great Basin
Germans
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
31. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Maryland
Hiram Johnson
Progressives
Father Fermin Lausen
32. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Jamestown
Irish
Land Commission
Chinese
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
California
initiative
Germans
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
34. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Hernando Cortez
the Great Compromise
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Whig Party
35. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
judicial branch
aeorspace industry
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Olmec Empire
36. 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
Major battles of the Civil War
free - soil movement
The Great Basin
War of 1812
37. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Proposition 13
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Chinese
38. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Central Pacific Railroad
Hetch Hetchy Dam
railroad
November 1849
39. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
anti - federalists
Georgia
Hiram Johnson
40. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
French and Indian War
Sir Francis Drake
Jacksonian democracy
Irish
41. 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
Bill of Rights
Jamestown
Father Fermin Lausen
The Industrial Era of the United States
42. 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
French and Indian War
Missouri Compromise of 1820
England and the colonies: differences
railroad
43. 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
Federalist Papers
forty - niners
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Immigration Act of 1965
44. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Europeans in the New World: France
Hernando Cortez
Central Valley Project
Mexicans
45. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
Central Valley
Articles of Confederation
Democratic Republicans
Proclamation of 1763
46. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Confederacy advanage
John C. Fremont
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Democratic Republicans
47. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Appomattox Court
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
rancho system
sacred expedition
48. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
Chinese
Prevailing Westerlies
Railroad Act of 1864
49. 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
Mt. Whitney
secession
John C. Fremont
French and Indian War
50. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
The Gulf Stream
Mexican Independence
presidios
New Government