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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
General Stockton
Union advantage
Father Junipero Serra
2. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Angel Island
Missouri Compromise of 1820
legislative branch
the conquistadores
3. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
War of 1812
Jose de Galves
England and the colonies: differences
The Chinese Exclusion Act
4. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Second Constitutional Congress
merchant Sam Brannon
Russians
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
5. Central California native American tribes
Hopewell people
Amendments
Juan Cabrillo
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
6. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Constitution
Mexicans
Democratic Republicans
7. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Hernando Cortez
anti - federalists
Panama Canal
Louisiana Purchase
8. (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
The Gulf Stream
Mt. Whitney
Major battles of the Civil War
England and the colonies: differences
9. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
Georgia
Hopewell people
War of 1812
10. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Ten Percent Plan
England and the colonies: differences
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Railroad Act of 1864
11. 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
Important Battles of the Revolution
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Articles of Confederation
12. 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
Sierra Nevadas
The Inca Empire
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Mono Lake
13. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Yorktown
federalism
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Intolerable Acts of 1774
14. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Amendments
Union advantage
Appomattox Court
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
15. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
England and the colonies: similarities
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Europeans in the New World
The Industrial Era of the United States
16. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
decline of the Mayan civlization
Mayflower Compact
'strict construction'
Chinese
17. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
John C. Fremont
Mexican Independence
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
18. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Great Awakening
Bill of Rights
19. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
Europeans in the New World
Magnuson Act of 1943
Yorktown
20. 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
Dust Bowl
reasons of American immigration
Irish
Jose de Galves
21. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Spain
rights of the federal government
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Rhode Island
22. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
squatters
rancho system
Georgia
Townsheld Acts of 1767
23. 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
Jacksonian democracy
Magnuson Act of 1943
England and the colonies: differences
Sierra Nevadas
24. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Stamp Tax
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Gold
25. 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
Hiram Johnson
rights of states
Silicon Valley
The Chinese Exclusion Act
26. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Toltecs
apparel industry
Jose Figueroa
The Maya Empire
27. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Connecticut Commonwealth
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
William Penn
Japanese
28. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
sacred expedition
Central Pacific Railroad
Constitutional Convention
Dust Bowl
29. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
issue of representation under the Constitution
Henry Hudson
Germans
how Union defeated Confederates
30. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
Pueblo Indians
Democratic Republicans
Balboa
31. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
sacred expedition
Chronological order of the colonies
World War II
Intolerable Acts of 1774
32. 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
Amendments
Pony Express
tourism
Delaware
33. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Bear Flag Revolt
Pueblo Indians
Silicon Valley
Confederacy advanage
34. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
Federalist Papers
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Important Battles of the Revolution
35. Northern California Indian tribes
Union advantage
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Watts Riots
squatters
36. 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
Amerindians
Tea Act of 1773
Japanese
Declaration of Independence
37. 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
Panama Canal
initiative
Father Junipero Serra
squatters
38. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
free - soil movement
Silicon Valley
Quartering Act
Sebastian Cermeno
39. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Immigration Act of 1965
Battle of Gettysberg
Hernando Cortes
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
40. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
southern anad eastern European
Europeans in the New World
internment camps
separation of powers
41. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Panama Canal
pueblos
nullification
Europeans in the New World: Britain
42. 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
Whig Party
Sir Francis Drake
how Union defeated Confederates
Constitution
43. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Trenton
rancho system
Georgia
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
44. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
Magnuson Act of 1943
Father Junipero Serra
Uncle Tom's Cabin
45. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
The Declaration of Independence
Silicon Valley
Sir Francis Drake
Balboa
46. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
how Union defeated Confederates
missions
Central Valley
Irish
47. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Death Valley
Yorktown
black codes
Central Pacific Railroad
48. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
Progressives
1850
Rodney Case
Japanese
49. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Three - Fifths Compromise
50. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
The Piedmont
Mississippian culture
Three - Fifths Compromise
1850