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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Bill of Rights
Magnuson Act of 1943
manifest destiny
2. Lincoln's vice president became president
The Great Basin
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Andrew Johnson
hydraulic mining -
3. 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
hydraulic mining -
Sierra Nevadas
Exeter Compact
Jose de Galves
4. 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
Transcontinental Railroad
referendum
The Inca Empire
Central Valley Project
5. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
separation of powers
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
the Great Compromise
World War II
6. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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7. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
apparel industry
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Olmec Empire
water
8. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Gold
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World: Spain
9. 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
The Inca Empire
Rodney Case
Jacksonian democracy
French and Indian War
10. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
The Mississippi River
Amerindians
2002
Sebastian Cermeno
11. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Irish
Thirteenth Amendment
reasons of American immigration
Hernando Cortes
12. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
anti - federalists
Bear Flag Revolt
First Continental Congress
13. 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
Thirteenth Amendment
judicial branch
Mexican American War
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
14. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
rights of the federal government
November 1849
'strict construction'
William Penn
15. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
aeorspace industry
executive branch
Mexican American War
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
16. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
separation of powers
Mexican American War
water
black codes
17. Central California native American tribes
The Gulf Stream
Commodore Sloat
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
England and the colonies: differences
18. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Gold
Hopewell people
John C. Fremont
Panama Canal
19. 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
Jacques Cartier
initiative
Maryland
entertainment
20. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
railroad
General Stockton and General Kearney
Owens River
Articles of Confederation
21. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
Union advantage
Pony Express
separation of powers
Bill of Rights
22. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Amendments
anti - federalists
23. 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
California Alien Land Act
Pony Express
Samuel de Champlain
Revolutionary War
24. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Puritans
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Russians
Thirteenth Amendment
25. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Russians
Confederacy advanage
squatters
John C. Fremont
26. 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
Townsheld Acts of 1767
internment camps
Modoc War
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
27. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Quartering Act
Mexican - American War
Confederacy advanage
free - soil movement
28. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Andrew Johnson
loose construction
Progressives
Mono Lake
29. 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
anti - federalists
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Appomattox Court
30. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
Europeans in the New World
Revolutionary War
The Appalachian Mountains
Mexican American War
31. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Central Valley
Intolerable Acts of 1774
pueblos
The Aztec Empire
32. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Major battles of the Civil War
Connecticut Commonwealth
England and the colonies: similarities
Louisiana Purchase
33. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
loose construction
Prevailing Westerlies
34. 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
Europeans in the New World
Land Commission
Amerindians
35. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Henry Hudson
The Declaration of Independence
The Gulf Stream
Salton Sea
36. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
The Appalachian Mountains
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
anti - federalists
Mexican Independence
37. 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
pueblos
melting pot
hydraulic mining -
Land Commission
38. The central agricultural area of California
Immigration Act of 1965
Central Pacific Railroad
Central Valley
Chronological order of the colonies
39. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Constitutional Convention
Union advantage
New Government
Lewis and Clark
40. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Appomattox Court
black codes
Bear Flag Revolt
Federalist Papers
41. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Second Constitutional Congress
Three - Fifths Compromise
Hopewell people
42. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
legislative branch
railroad
43. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Juan Cabrillo
decline of the Mayan civlization
Sebastian Vicaino
Depression of 1870
44. 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
Mexican - American War
Germans
aeorspace industry
Immigration Act of 1965
45. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
free - soil movement
William Penn
Panama Canal
issue of representation under the Constitution
46. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Connecticut Commonwealth
black codes
Hernando Cortes
47. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Maryland
Thirteenth Amendment
Pueblo Indians
Railroad Act of 1864
48. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Rhode Island
The Continental Divide
Lewis and Clark
Samuel de Champlain
49. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Great Awakening
French and Indian War
Trenton
Jacksonian democracy
50. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Gentleman's Agreement
California Alien Land Act
legislative branch
Bill of Rights