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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. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Federalist Party
water
Exeter Compact
Central Valley
2. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Transcontinental Railroad
Second Constitutional Congress
2002
William Penn
3. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
Three - Fifths Compromise
secession
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
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
the conquistadores
Rodney Case
Mississippian culture
Articles of Confederation
5. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Dust Bowl
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Okies
6. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Silicon Valley
Samuel de Champlain
Major battles of the Civil War
Death Valley
7. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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8. 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
Depression of 1870
Watts Riots
Immigration Act of 1965
World War II
9. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
Land Commission
Central Valley Project
Ten Percent Plan
rancho system
10. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Confederacy advanage
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Watts Riots
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
11. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Chinese
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Francisco Montejo
Sebastian Cermeno
12. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Revolutionary War
Panama Canal
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Death Valley
13. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Union advantage
French and Indian War
Russians
Puritans
14. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
rights of states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
railroad
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
15. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
issue of representation under the Constitution
Chinese
Immigration Act of 1965
pueblos
16. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Jamestown
Great Awakening
Hetch Hetchy Dam
17. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
tule
Intolerable Acts of 1774
rancho system
Hopewell people
18. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Prevailing Westerlies
Mono Lake
judicial branch
General Stockton
19. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Great Awakening
General Stockton and General Kearney
Constitutional Convention
20. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Battle of Gettysberg
Puritans
The Inca Empire
21. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Anasazi culture
Hetch Hetchy Dam
The Continental Divide
Okies
22. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Workingmen's Party
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Depression of 1870
Europeans in the New World: Britain
23. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Delaware
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Pilgrims
the Oregon Territory
24. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
California Alien Land Act
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Proclamation of 1763
25. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
decline of the Mayan civlization
Salton Sea
Dust Bowl
anti - federalists
26. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Progressives
hydraulic mining -
decline of the Mayan civlization
tule
27. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
manifest destiny
Pilgrims
Amendments
Commodore Sloat
28. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
rancho system
Dust Bowl
Bear Flag Revolt
The interior
29. 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
French and Indian War
The Great Basin
Gentleman's Agreement
30. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Francisco Montejo
Battle of Gettysberg
Puritans
First Continental Congress
31. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Constitutional Convention
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
secession
32. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Jacksonian democracy
The Mississippi River
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Samuel de Champlain
33. 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
Amerindians
England and the colonies: similarities
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Chronological order of the colonies
34. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
secession
French and Indian War
Transcontinental Railroad
35. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
missions
Mississippian culture
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Railroad Act of 1864
36. 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
Federalist Party
Proclamation of 1763
recall
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
37. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mexican - American War
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Inca Empire
38. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Election of 1876
World War II
Samuel de Champlain
39. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
Father Fermin Lausen
Jose de Galves
The southeastern Coastal Plain
40. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Important Battles of the Revolution
legislative branch
Revolutionary War
41. Drains the interior of the United States
Immigration Act of 1965
The Mississippi River
Father Fermin Lausen
Jose Figueroa
42. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
anti - federalists
hydraulic mining -
Constitutional Convention
The Great Basin
43. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
acorns
Articles of Confederation
The Continental Divide
44. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
California Alien Land Act
Pony Express
Panama Canal
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
45. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
Whig Party
Chinese
melting pot
46. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Second Constitutional Congress
Europeans in the New World
47. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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48. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Union advantage
rights of the federal government
Panama Canal
Radical Republicans
49. 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
Quartering Act
Watts Riots
'strict construction'
Irish
50. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
The Industrial Era of the United States
Jacques Cartier
executive branch
merchant Sam Brannon