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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Maryland
Francisco Pizarro
Sebastian Vicaino
2. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
recall
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Pilgrims
3. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
Constitution
sacred expedition
Magnuson Act of 1943
4. Southern California native american tribes
Second Constitutional Congress
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Pony Express
Silicon Valley
5. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
The Gulf Stream
Magnuson Act of 1943
Appomattox Court
Pueblo Indians
6. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
missions
The Inca Empire
Europeans in the New World: France
Great Awakening
7. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Railroad Act of 1864
Prevailing Westerlies
Union advantage
8. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Death Valley
Missouri Compromise of 1820
acorns
Yorktown
9. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
Father Fermin Lausen
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Europeans in the New World: Spain
10. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Amendments
Prevailing Westerlies
General Stockton
11. A major food staple of California native American tribes
secession
Central Pacific Railroad
acorns
Constitutional Convention
12. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Federalist Papers
Second Constitutional Congress
Prevailing Westerlies
Francisco Montejo
13. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
The Chinese Exclusion Act
presidios
Jacksonian democracy
14. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
Sir Francis Drake
Trenton
anti - federalists
15. 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
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
loose construction
Intolerable Acts of 1774
rights of states
16. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Prevailing Westerlies
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
17. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Death Valley
southern anad eastern European
Election of 1876
18. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
the conquistadores
Mexican - American War
Tea Act of 1773
Yorktown
19. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
Chronological order of the colonies
Central Valley
Townsheld Acts of 1767
20. 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
The Gulf Stream
War of 1812
Chinese
Pony Express
21. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Pueblo Indians
water
Federalist Papers
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
22. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Montejo
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
23. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
The Declaration of Independence
the Oregon Territory
rancho system
Rodney Case
24. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
Andrew Johnson
Articles of Confederation
apparel industry
25. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
secession
Francisco Pizarro
The Aztec Empire
Mississippian culture
26. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Samuel de Champlain
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
hydraulic mining -
Lewis and Clark
27. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Hiram Johnson
Proposition 13
decline of the Mayan civlization
The Piedmont
28. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Compromise of 1850
presidios
decline of the Mayan civlization
1850
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
Jamestown
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
rights of the federal government
Articles of Confederation
30. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
The Inca Empire
Mexican - American War
Central Valley Project
31. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Jose de Galves
Emanciptation Proclomation
free - soil movement
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
32. 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
Constitution
merchant Sam Brannon
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Townsheld Acts of 1767
33. 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
California
Puritans
referendum
aeorspace industry
34. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
melting pot
Constitutional Convention
Maryland
Chinese
35. 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
the Oregon Territory
Federalist Party
Hiram Johnson
36. 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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37. Northern California Indian tribes
Workingmen's Party
tule
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Sierra Nevadas
38. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
Major battles of the Civil War
Jamestown
The Gulf Stream
39. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Irish
Europeans in the New World
Appomattox Court
Anasazi culture
40. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Federalist Papers
Constitutional Convention
Second Constitutional Congress
Modoc War
41. 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
The Aztec Empire
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Radical Republicans
General Stockton
42. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Mayflower Compact
Sir Francis Drake
Stamp Tax
Ten Percent Plan
43. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Father Junipero Serra
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
French and Indian War
1850
44. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
squatters
Federalist Papers
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
45. 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
Europeans in the New World: France
Federalist Party
Europeans in the New World
Bear Flag Revolt
46. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
how Union defeated Confederates
legislative branch
Europeans in the New World: France
Owens River
47. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Transcontinental Railroad
Salton Sea
England and the colonies: similarities
federalism
48. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
free - soil movement
Samuel de Champlain
Toltecs
nullification
49. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Pilgrims
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Mississippian culture
Central Valley Project
50. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
The Industrial Era of the United States
Germans
Mexican Independence
Sebastian Vicaino