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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
reasons of American immigration
The Declaration of Independence
separation of powers
Townsheld Acts of 1767
2. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
New Government
Constitutional Convention
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Jacksonian democracy
3. In the eastern region of the United States
Francisco Pizarro
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Appalachian Mountains
Sugar Act
4. 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
Irish
Articles of Confederation
how Union defeated Confederates
Revolutionary War
5. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Germans
Angel Island
apparel industry
Pueblo Indians
6. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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7. (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
Second Constitutional Congress
Sir Francis Drake
Balboa
Chronological order of the colonies
8. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
hydraulic mining -
Sebastian Vicaino
Mexican American War
Sebastian Cermeno
9. 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
Depression of 1870
French and Indian War
War of 1812
The Great Basin
10. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
squatters
Prevailing Westerlies
2002
Amendments
11. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
forty - niners
black codes
Amerindians
Johann Sutter
12. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Jacques Cartier
the conquistadores
November 1849
Delaware
13. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
November 1849
sacred expedition
Salton Sea
First Continental Congress
14. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
melting pot
Quartering Act
Federalist Party
the conquistadores
15. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
squatters
acorns
Samuel de Champlain
16. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
Father Junipero Serra
Magnuson Act of 1943
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
17. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Union advantage
Bill of Rights
Watts Riots
Central Valley Project
18. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
The Declaration of Independence
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Revolutionary War
William Penn
19. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
internment camps
Anasazi culture
Radical Republicans
Sir Francis Drake
20. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
The Declaration of Independence
squatters
Depression of 1870
21. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Depression of 1870
Federalist Papers
John C. Fremont
22. 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
The Mississippi River
Jose de Galves
rancho system
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
23. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
Tea Act of 1773
Hernando Cortes
Europeans in the New World: Britain
24. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
World War II
Salton Sea
General Stockton and General Kearney
Panama Canal
25. 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
Tea Act of 1773
squatters
French and Indian War
Jacksonian democracy
26. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
Francisco Pizarro
Revolutionary War
decline of the Mayan civlization
27. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevadas
The Great Basin
Owens River
sacred expedition
28. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
England and the colonies: differences
Balboa
Prevailing Westerlies
Proclamation of 1763
29. The highest point in California
missions
Japanese
Silicon Valley
Mt. Whitney
30. 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
Sebastian Vicaino
World War II
Proclamation of 1763
The Appalachian Mountains
31. The two major deserts in California
Jose de Galves
Georgia
California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
32. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Rodney Case
Constitutional Convention
pueblos
33. Lincoln's vice president became president
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Andrew Johnson
Yorktown
Immigration Act of 1965
34. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Important Battles of the Revolution
Tea Act of 1773
presidios
Jacques Cartier
35. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Exeter Compact
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Quartering Act
36. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Bill of Rights
Anasazi culture
Irish
37. 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
Hernando Cortes
Modoc War
Compromise of 1850
entertainment
38. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
General Stockton and General Kearney
The Mississippi River
Second Constitutional Congress
Father Fermin Lausen
39. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
apparel industry
Sebastian Vicaino
The Maya Empire
40. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Tea Act of 1773
Chinese
Modoc War
41. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Owens River
Central Pacific Railroad
Mississippian culture
how Union defeated Confederates
42. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
apparel industry
Mexican American War
Maryland
43. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
pueblos
Johann Sutter
Federalist Papers
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
44. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
Watts Riots
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
the Great Compromise
45. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Irish
Progressives
Three - Fifths Compromise
separation of powers
46. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Silicon Valley
California
rights of the federal government
Trenton
47. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
Proposition 13
Hetch Hetchy Dam
tourism
48. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
rancho system
Federalist Party
tourism
free - soil movement
49. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states
Great Awakening
Trenton
Constitution
Rodney Case
50. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
rancho system
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Democratic Republicans
Compromise of 1850