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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
nullification
Pilgrims
tule
2. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
The Continental Divide
Stamp Tax
The Gulf Stream
Articles of Confederation
3. Northern California Indian tribes
federalism
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Europeans in the New World: Spain
entertainment
4. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Trenton
Andrew Johnson
Maryland
5. 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
The interior
railroad
initiative
Hernando Cortez
6. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
presidios
Important Battles of the Revolution
Missouri Compromise of 1820
7. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Silicon Valley
Sebastian Cermeno
Workingmen's Party
War of 1812
8. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Bill of Rights
reasons of American immigration
Death Valley
loose construction
9. Southern California native american tribes
Maryland
Chinese
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Articles of Confederation
10. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
sacred expedition
Ten Percent Plan
Thirteenth Amendment
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
11. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Yorktown
Delaware
Exeter Compact
12. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Trenton
England and the colonies: differences
black codes
13. (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
Rodney Case
Radical Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Chronological order of the colonies
14. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
The Maya Empire
pueblos
Prevailing Westerlies
legislative branch
15. 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
referendum
The Maya Empire
the Oregon Territory
England and the colonies: similarities
16. 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
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Proposition 13
Proclamation of 1763
2002
17. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
The southeastern Coastal Plain
merchant Sam Brannon
Father Fermin Lausen
18. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
The Inca Empire
missions
Constitutional Convention
19. 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
hydraulic mining -
Railroad Act of 1864
Progressives
Sir Francis Drake
20. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
New Government
Germans
apparel industry
21. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
hydraulic mining -
presidios
Georgia
22. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
England and the colonies: similarities
The Declaration of Independence
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Hernando Cortez
23. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Sugar Act
Stamp Tax
executive branch
Hernando Cortez
24. 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
Revolutionary War
merchant Sam Brannon
acorns
25. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Amendments
Irish
Olmec Empire
Missouri Compromise of 1820
26. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Japanese
entertainment
New Government
27. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Samuel de Champlain
Union advantage
Pilgrims
28. 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
French and Indian War
Amerindians
Mexican American War
Pueblo Indians
29. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Central Valley Project
Trenton
New Government
legislative branch
30. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
William Penn
Confederacy advanage
Balboa
Gold
31. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Federalist Papers
the Great Compromise
presidios
the Oregon Territory
32. Central California native American tribes
Puritans
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
French and Indian War
recall
33. 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.
England and the colonies: differences
The Declaration of Independence
secession
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
34. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Revolutionary War
rancho system
Hernando Cortes
Puritans
35. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
recall
rights of the federal government
Juan Cabrillo
36. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Montejo
Father Junipero Serra
37. 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
Election of 1876
Sierra Nevadas
Pilgrims
Appomattox Court
38. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
black codes
Samuel de Champlain
Gold
Jacques Cartier
39. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Angel Island
Hopewell people
Delaware
Dust Bowl
40. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Yorktown
Land Commission
Francisco Montejo
41. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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42. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
The Gulf Stream
Constitutional Convention
loose construction
43. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
executive branch
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Sierra Nevadas
Battle of Gettysberg
44. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Jose de Galves
Thirteenth Amendment
California Alien Land Act
45. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
black codes
Central Pacific Railroad
Mt. Whitney
1850
46. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
black codes
loose construction
judicial branch
47. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Jacksonian democracy
entertainment
Irish
Depression of 1870
48. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
nullification
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Thirteenth Amendment
black codes
49. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Juan Cabrillo
Sugar Act
2002
Rodney Case
50. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
rights of states
Sebastian Cermeno
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla