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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
2. (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
Major battles of the Civil War
Depression of 1870
The Inca Empire
Europeans in the New World: Britain
3. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Pony Express
Death Valley
Battle of Gettysberg
Mayflower Compact
4. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
how Union defeated Confederates
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Bear Flag Revolt
Anasazi culture
5. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
6. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Bill of Rights
squatters
manifest destiny
missions
7. The lowest point in California
Francisco Pizarro
Death Valley
Ten Percent Plan
pueblos
8. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
how Union defeated Confederates
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Transcontinental Railroad
Union advantage
9. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
decline of the Mayan civlization
Europeans in the New World
Magnuson Act of 1943
10. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
England and the colonies: differences
Gold
internment camps
11. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Mt. Whitney
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Bear Flag Revolt
Francisco Montejo
12. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Ten Percent Plan
Magnuson Act of 1943
the Oregon Territory
Immigration Act of 1965
13. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Jamestown
Okies
Workingmen's Party
Delaware
14. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
melting pot
Pilgrims
legislative branch
15. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad
Election of 1876
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
aeorspace industry
initiative
16. 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
Depression of 1870
water
Irish
Tea Act of 1773
17. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Railroad Act of 1864
The Appalachian Mountains
initiative
the Great Compromise
18. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
French and Indian War
issue of representation under the Constitution
black codes
19. People who took land from the original Californios
Rhode Island
French and Indian War
Proposition 13
squatters
20. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
aeorspace industry
Mayflower Compact
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Henry Hudson
21. 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
Articles of Confederation
separation of powers
Jose de Galves
forty - niners
22. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
how Union defeated Confederates
separation of powers
Radical Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
23. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Death Valley
John C. Fremont
French and Indian War
Watts Riots
24. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
California Alien Land Act
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Europeans in the New World: France
1850
25. Central California native American tribes
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Juan Cabrillo
sacred expedition
26. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
issue of representation under the Constitution
England and the colonies: differences
Immigration Act of 1965
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
27. Facilities that the Spanish used to turned to the Indians to establish agricultural fields and learned Christianity. natives also were exposed to disease that they don't have immunity to. Also - brought olive trees and orange trees and introduced whe
Silicon Valley
California
Jamestown
missions
28. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Sir Francis Drake
rights of the federal government
The Declaration of Independence
issue of representation under the Constitution
29. 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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Mexican Independence
World War II
Land Commission
30. 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
referendum
Immigration Act of 1965
Magnuson Act of 1943
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
31. 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
French and Indian War
Henry Hudson
New Government
War of 1812
32. 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
Mayflower Compact
referendum
Democratic Republicans
The southeastern Coastal Plain
33. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Yorktown
November 1849
Progressives
Irish
34. 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
Delaware
forty - niners
Revolutionary War
Olmec Empire
35. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
secession
Stamp Tax
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Confederacy advanage
36. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Federalist Papers
Owens River
Lewis and Clark
Chinese
37. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Federalist Party
Sebastian Cermeno
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Three - Fifths Compromise
38. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Father Junipero Serra
Owens River
Progressives
39. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
The Maya Empire
Olmec Empire
Mt. Whitney
The Gulf Stream
40. 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
presidios
Magnuson Act of 1943
Election of 1876
'strict construction'
41. 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
Jacksonian democracy
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Rhode Island
42. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Mexican American War
Transcontinental Railroad
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Balboa
43. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Depression of 1870
French and Indian War
southern anad eastern European
44. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
The Declaration of Independence
Andrew Johnson
Okies
Owens River
45. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
Bear Flag Revolt
Hopewell people
Sugar Act
46. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Mono Lake
Europeans in the New World: France
47. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Depression of 1870
Okies
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
John C. Fremont
48. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Tea Act of 1773
nullification
melting pot
initiative
49. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Okies
William Penn
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Townsheld Acts of 1767
50. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
loose construction
Declaration of Independence
The Maya Empire
legislative branch