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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Progressives
railroad
Second Constitutional Congress
Chinese
2. 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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3. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Depression of 1870
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Connecticut Commonwealth
Juan Cabrillo
4. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Articles of Confederation
Workingmen's Party
Bear Flag Revolt
5. 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
internment camps
Father Fermin Lausen
merchant Sam Brannon
Whig Party
6. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
sacred expedition
Okies
Mayflower Compact
Silicon Valley
7. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
First Continental Congress
William Penn
Land Commission
8. 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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9. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Depression of 1870
secession
nullification
reasons of American immigration
10. 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
tourism
southern anad eastern European
Tea Act of 1773
Railroad Act of 1864
11. 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
recall
Commodore Sloat
Samuel de Champlain
Toltecs
12. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
tule
the conquistadores
The Appalachian Mountains
Francisco Pizarro
13. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
The Great Basin
Chinese
Jacques Cartier
Sebastian Cermeno
14. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Maryland
The southeastern Coastal Plain
New Government
Sir Francis Drake
15. 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
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Sierra Nevadas
16. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Union advantage
Great Awakening
Bear Flag Revolt
War of 1812
17. 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
nullification
Irish
referendum
Okies
18. 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
John C. Fremont
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Revolutionary War
England and the colonies: differences
19. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Mexican American War
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Yorktown
20. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
Lewis and Clark
forty - niners
executive branch
21. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
The Mississippi River
tourism
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Sebastian Cermeno
22. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Mono Lake
Hernando Cortez
pueblos
Francisco Montejo
23. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Sebastian Cermeno
1850
anti - federalists
24. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Chinese
Mexican - American War
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Yorktown
25. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
legislative branch
Mexican Independence
War of 1812
26. Drains the interior of the United States
The Mississippi River
New Government
Father Fermin Lausen
Europeans in the New World: Britain
27. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Proclamation of 1763
melting pot
executive branch
The southeastern Coastal Plain
28. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Sebastian Vicaino
The Inca Empire
Hetch Hetchy Dam
29. 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
Democratic Republicans
1850
Articles of Confederation
executive branch
30. Central California native American tribes
Proclamation of 1763
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Ten Percent Plan
31. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Father Junipero Serra
Sebastian Cermeno
Father Fermin Lausen
Mono Lake
32. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
southern anad eastern European
The Declaration of Independence
Angel Island
Russians
33. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Second Constitutional Congress
Quartering Act
French and Indian War
Francisco Pizarro
34. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Watts Riots
Magnuson Act of 1943
Georgia
pueblos
35. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
General Stockton
Connecticut Commonwealth
rights of the federal government
Central Pacific Railroad
36. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
General Stockton and General Kearney
Ten Percent Plan
Salton Sea
Toltecs
37. 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
anti - federalists
Stamp Tax
Jacksonian democracy
The Chinese Exclusion Act
38. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
pueblos
Jamestown
Workingmen's Party
Angel Island
39. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
The Inca Empire
Trenton
Proclamation of 1763
40. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
California Alien Land Act
Hopewell people
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
41. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
the conquistadores
Prevailing Westerlies
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Stamp Tax
42. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Sierra Nevadas
Election of 1876
Hernando Cortes
43. 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.
Silicon Valley
Europeans in the New World: France
The Declaration of Independence
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
44. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Puritans
Dust Bowl
Henry Hudson
Stamp Tax
45. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
The Industrial Era of the United States
Juan Cabrillo
Bill of Rights
separation of powers
46. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
Mexican - American War
Battle of Gettysberg
Balboa
47. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Workingmen's Party
Proclamation of 1763
November 1849
Sebastian Cermeno
48. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Europeans in the New World: France
Hiram Johnson
Modoc War
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
49. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Major battles of the Civil War
Europeans in the New World
Father Junipero Serra
50. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
War of 1812
Second Constitutional Congress
Mt. Whitney
First Continental Congress