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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Rhode Island
referendum
2. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Mexican American War
Magnuson Act of 1943
Revolutionary War
3. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
England and the colonies: differences
acorns
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Jacksonian democracy
4. 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
Quartering Act
Central Valley Project
Mexican Independence
Francisco Montejo
5. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
The Aztec Empire
separation of powers
Amendments
the Great Compromise
6. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Silicon Valley
Germans
7. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Whig Party
Silicon Valley
The southeastern Coastal Plain
8. 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
Watts Riots
Olmec Empire
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Johann Sutter
9. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Uncle Tom's Cabin
federalism
Dust Bowl
Three - Fifths Compromise
10. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
rights of states
judicial branch
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
11. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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12. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
The Continental Divide
The interior
Battle of Gettysberg
13. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
The Industrial Era of the United States
The southeastern Coastal Plain
southern anad eastern European
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
14. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
judicial branch
Immigration Act of 1965
Radical Republicans
15. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
forty - niners
Chronological order of the colonies
separation of powers
Georgia
16. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
Magnuson Act of 1943
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Father Junipero Serra
17. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
Samuel de Champlain
Bill of Rights
Silicon Valley
18. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
England and the colonies: similarities
Sugar Act
pueblos
Death Valley
19. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
November 1849
federalism
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
William Penn
20. 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
executive branch
the Oregon Territory
Tea Act of 1773
Francisco Montejo
21. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Radical Republicans
manifest destiny
Delaware
rights of states
22. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
internment camps
Second Constitutional Congress
Dust Bowl
War of 1812
23. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Sebastian Cermeno
water
Railroad Act of 1864
Revolutionary War
24. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
William Penn
Jacksonian democracy
Confederacy advanage
Francisco Montejo
25. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Hetch Hetchy Dam
sacred expedition
26. 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
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Amerindians
27. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Stamp Tax
Louisiana Purchase
Gentleman's Agreement
rights of the federal government
28. 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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29. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
entertainment
missions
apparel industry
The Chinese Exclusion Act
30. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Hiram Johnson
Europeans in the New World
federalism
Anasazi culture
31. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Federalist Papers
Transcontinental Railroad
Rhode Island
32. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Francisco Pizarro
Constitutional Convention
nullification
'strict construction'
33. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Important Battles of the Revolution
loose construction
Louisiana Purchase
Battle of Gettysberg
34. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
federalism
The Industrial Era of the United States
The Appalachian Mountains
35. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
hydraulic mining -
Tea Act of 1773
free - soil movement
Quartering Act
36. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
The Gulf Stream
Hernando Cortes
the Oregon Territory
Henry Hudson
37. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
merchant Sam Brannon
Stamp Tax
Hernando Cortez
38. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
acorns
The Aztec Empire
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
2002
39. 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
World War II
Amendments
The Industrial Era of the United States
Mexicans
40. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Georgia
Prevailing Westerlies
41. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Battle of Gettysberg
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Samuel de Champlain
Sebastian Vicaino
42. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Samuel de Champlain
Father Fermin Lausen
French and Indian War
Jacques Cartier
43. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
the Oregon Territory
Magnuson Act of 1943
Dust Bowl
Battle of Gettysberg
44. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
rancho system
free - soil movement
New Government
secession
45. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Salton Sea
Father Fermin Lausen
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Missouri Compromise of 1820
46. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Emanciptation Proclomation
presidios
Second Constitutional Congress
decline of the Mayan civlization
47. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Democratic Republicans
railroad
manifest destiny
General Stockton
48. 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
judicial branch
The Mississippi River
General Stockton and General Kearney
Compromise of 1850
49. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
reasons of American immigration
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise of 1820
black codes
50. 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
Land Commission
legislative branch
Bill of Rights
John C. Fremont