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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Major battles of the Civil War
Puritans
pueblos
French and Indian War
2. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Lewis and Clark
aeorspace industry
initiative
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
3. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Mexican American War
legislative branch
pueblos
rancho system
4. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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5. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Democratic Republicans
New Government
Watts Riots
Francisco Pizarro
6. 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
apparel industry
the conquistadores
French and Indian War
Delaware
7. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Quartering Act
Juan Cabrillo
The Piedmont
8. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
Great Awakening
The Aztec Empire
Olmec Empire
9. 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
The interior
Mono Lake
hydraulic mining -
Georgia
10. Northern California Indian tribes
Olmec Empire
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Germans
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
11. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Appomattox Court
black codes
Pony Express
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
12. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Radical Republicans
November 1849
Watts Riots
Missouri Compromise of 1820
13. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
Bill of Rights
legislative branch
Whig Party
14. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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15. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Modoc War
General Stockton and General Kearney
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
French and Indian War
16. 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
Sierra Nevadas
2002
Sebastian Cermeno
The Industrial Era of the United States
17. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
issue of representation under the Constitution
Francisco Pizarro
Major battles of the Civil War
Central Pacific Railroad
18. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
squatters
Exeter Compact
Chronological order of the colonies
Father Fermin Lausen
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
California
The Appalachian Mountains
initiative
squatters
20. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Mexican American War
Sebastian Vicaino
Jamestown
Federalist Party
21. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
New Government
presidios
Transcontinental Railroad
entertainment
22. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Confederacy advanage
Chinese
Radical Republicans
Sir Francis Drake
23. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Second Constitutional Congress
executive branch
Amendments
Owens River
24. Southern California native american tribes
apparel industry
free - soil movement
Georgia
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
25. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Workingmen's Party
The Continental Divide
apparel industry
Maryland
26. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Hopewell people
John C. Fremont
Georgia
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
Union advantage
Europeans in the New World
First Continental Congress
Hernando Cortes
28. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
issue of representation under the Constitution
Mexican American War
the Oregon Territory
29. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
tourism
Constitutional Convention
manifest destiny
30. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
water
Johann Sutter
Pony Express
Mississippian culture
31. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
free - soil movement
Federalist Party
Pilgrims
issue of representation under the Constitution
32. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
New Government
Second Constitutional Congress
Sebastian Vicaino
Germans
33. 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
General Stockton and General Kearney
tule
Battle of Gettysberg
Irish
34. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
Europeans in the New World: Britain
French and Indian War
the Oregon Territory
35. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Central Pacific Railroad
Maryland
Dust Bowl
Battle of Gettysberg
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
Workingmen's Party
Mississippian culture
Puritans
Great Awakening
37. 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
Gold
Father Junipero Serra
William Penn
38. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Francisco Montejo
Land Commission
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1850
39. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
rancho system
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Chinese
French and Indian War
40. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Chinese
Owens River
federalism
Election of 1876
41. 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
Central Pacific Railroad
Progressives
Jacksonian democracy
42. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Great Awakening
Georgia
43. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Appomattox Court
Hernando Cortes
The Gulf Stream
the conquistadores
44. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
California Alien Land Act
squatters
Constitution
Three - Fifths Compromise
45. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Yorktown
Second Constitutional Congress
nullification
46. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
tule
Juan Cabrillo
Jacques Cartier
reasons of American immigration
47. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
The Declaration of Independence
Watts Riots
William Penn
Workingmen's Party
48. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
Central Pacific Railroad
The Maya Empire
manifest destiny
recall
49. 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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Angel Island
Election of 1876
Tea Act of 1773
50. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Pueblo Indians
Rodney Case
Second Constitutional Congress