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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Depression of 1870
entertainment
New Government
Rodney Case
2. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Battle of Gettysberg
Connecticut Commonwealth
Constitutional Convention
Land Commission
3. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Ten Percent Plan
Samuel de Champlain
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
4. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Okies
French and Indian War
anti - federalists
Maryland
5. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
federalism
Transcontinental Railroad
rights of the federal government
presidios
6. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
New Government
tourism
internment camps
The Aztec Empire
7. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
World War II
Proposition 13
Federalist Papers
Central Valley Project
8. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
missions
1850
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
loose construction
9. 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
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Amerindians
Mexicans
The Continental Divide
10. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Central Valley
Puritans
Mt. Whitney
Francisco Pizarro
11. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Bear Flag Revolt
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Workingmen's Party
12. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
California Alien Land Act
The Gulf Stream
entertainment
tule
13. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Great Awakening
Chinese
War of 1812
14. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
The Piedmont
Yorktown
merchant Sam Brannon
Jose Figueroa
15. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
how Union defeated Confederates
Mexican American War
black codes
Trenton
16. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Europeans in the New World
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
1850
Radical Republicans
17. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Intolerable Acts of 1774
black codes
Georgia
18. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Mississippi River
The Maya Empire
southern anad eastern European
pueblos
19. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
Chronological order of the colonies
squatters
legislative branch
Japanese
20. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
Olmec Empire
Second Constitutional Congress
The Aztec Empire
War of 1812
21. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Second Constitutional Congress
Francisco Montejo
Hernando Cortez
The interior
22. 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
Battle of Gettysberg
Radical Republicans
Hernando Cortes
Tea Act of 1773
23. Republican Rutherford Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden run for President. Hayes promises to end the Reconstruction and allows Southern staets to establish the black codes. Caused the end of the Reconstruction in 1877
Confederacy advanage
Rhode Island
Election of 1876
Father Junipero Serra
24. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Sierra Nevadas
Battle of Gettysberg
Silicon Valley
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
25. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
World War II
referendum
issue of representation under the Constitution
Silicon Valley
26. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
the Great Compromise
Delaware
General Stockton
Watts Riots
27. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Stamp Tax
Francisco Montejo
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
28. 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
Europeans in the New World: Spain
forty - niners
acorns
Jose de Galves
29. Drains the interior of the United States
Pony Express
John C. Fremont
Hernando Cortes
The Mississippi River
30. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Confederacy advanage
Tea Act of 1773
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
31. 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
The Great Basin
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
32. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
The Declaration of Independence
Russians
First Continental Congress
black codes
33. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
melting pot
Europeans in the New World: Spain
November 1849
Hopewell people
34. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
Sebastian Cermeno
Father Junipero Serra
referendum
Mexicans
35. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Chinese
The Aztec Empire
Three - Fifths Compromise
36. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Immigration Act of 1965
Hernando Cortez
Jacques Cartier
Great Awakening
37. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Major battles of the Civil War
Exeter Compact
California Alien Land Act
Confederacy advanage
38. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
secession
Exeter Compact
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
First Continental Congress
39. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Second Constitutional Congress
Sebastian Vicaino
Radical Republicans
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
40. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Battle of Gettysberg
Bear Flag Revolt
The Gulf Stream
loose construction
41. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Jacksonian democracy
Battle of Gettysberg
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
42. 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
Chinese
Election of 1876
Germans
43. 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
Central Valley Project
the Great Compromise
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
1850
44. Southern California native american tribes
rights of states
Chinese
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
William Penn
45. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
November 1849
federalism
Johann Sutter
Pony Express
46. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
entertainment
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
rancho system
The Declaration of Independence
47. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Union advantage
Progressives
Proclamation of 1763
48. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Rodney Case
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Japanese
Sebastian Cermeno
49. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Hopewell people
The Piedmont
black codes
California Alien Land Act
50. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Death Valley
presidios
issue of representation under the Constitution