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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. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state






2. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war






3. 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






4. Year that California faces largest budget deficit






5. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business

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6. 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






7. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs






8. 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






9. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi






10. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'






11. Northern California Indian tribes






12. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population






13. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880






14. 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






15. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals






16. 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






17. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post






18. 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






19. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination






20. 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






21. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru






22. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California






23. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others






24. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York






25. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607






26. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal






27. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land






28. 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






29. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there






30. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator






31. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay






32. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.






33. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free

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34. A major mountain range in California






35. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life






36. 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






37. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)






38. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers

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39. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'






40. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown






41. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'






42. In the eastern region of the United States






43. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810






44. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves






45. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic






46. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States






47. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility






48. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid






49. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution






50. 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)