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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
War of 1812
Union advantage
Georgia
November 1849
2. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
reasons of American immigration
Mexican - American War
Death Valley
3. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Great Basin
Revolutionary War
4. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
missions
Irish
hydraulic mining -
Pilgrims
5. Drains the interior of the United States
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Anasazi culture
The Mississippi River
The Continental Divide
6. 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
Rodney Case
Great Awakening
Toltecs
Ten Percent Plan
7. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Mexican American War
Mayflower Compact
Connecticut Commonwealth
8. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Sierra Nevadas
General Stockton and General Kearney
Modoc War
Angel Island
9. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Thirteenth Amendment
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Bill of Rights
Francisco Pizarro
10. (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
missions
Father Fermin Lausen
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
11. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Jose Figueroa
Appomattox Court
Central Pacific Railroad
12. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Major battles of the Civil War
entertainment
Mexican American War
Rodney Case
13. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Chinese
Jose de Galves
Amendments
Democratic Republicans
14. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Hopewell people
acorns
Great Awakening
executive branch
15. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
England and the colonies: similarities
Three - Fifths Compromise
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
federalism
16. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Federalist Papers
Second Constitutional Congress
New Government
Louisiana Purchase
17. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
the conquistadores
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Pilgrims
Proposition 13
18. 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
secession
free - soil movement
Great Awakening
Whig Party
19. 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
Central Pacific Railroad
The Inca Empire
French and Indian War
Jose de Galves
20. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
legislative branch
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
apparel industry
21. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
New Government
Mexican American War
World War II
Connecticut Commonwealth
22. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Sir Francis Drake
Owens River
1850
23. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Second Constitutional Congress
Radical Republicans
water
24. 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
Hiram Johnson
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Germans
Commodore Sloat
25. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Chinese
Trenton
Juan Cabrillo
Intolerable Acts of 1774
26. 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
Watts Riots
Balboa
Mexican Independence
Angel Island
27. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
merchant Sam Brannon
Okies
Mexican American War
28. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Toltecs
Trenton
decline of the Mayan civlization
Europeans in the New World
29. Northern California Indian tribes
French and Indian War
Great Awakening
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
missions
30. 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
Europeans in the New World
World War II
Pony Express
31. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
Confederacy advanage
Angel Island
Hernando Cortez
32. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Mexican American War
Battle of Gettysberg
southern anad eastern European
33. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Trenton
Union advantage
34. 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
Land Commission
The Industrial Era of the United States
Tea Act of 1773
Confederacy advanage
35. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Louisiana Purchase
rancho system
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
36. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Jose de Galves
Pilgrims
tule
California Alien Land Act
37. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Dust Bowl
Chinese
Jacksonian democracy
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
38. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
General Stockton
Proposition 13
Confederacy advanage
Jacksonian democracy
39. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
Yorktown
aeorspace industry
rights of the federal government
40. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Proposition 13
rights of states
hydraulic mining -
41. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Puritans
Hopewell people
Transcontinental Railroad
Three - Fifths Compromise
42. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Puritans
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
acorns
Important Battles of the Revolution
43. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Second Constitutional Congress
Jamestown
hydraulic mining -
The interior
44. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Europeans in the New World: Britain
New Government
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
merchant Sam Brannon
45. The highest point in California
Maryland
Mt. Whitney
John C. Fremont
Rhode Island
46. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
apparel industry
The Maya Empire
Compromise of 1850
Appomattox Court
47. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
New Government
Declaration of Independence
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
48. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Magnuson Act of 1943
The interior
Central Valley Project
Appomattox Court
49. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Bill of Rights
missions
Thirteenth Amendment
southern anad eastern European
50. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Important Battles of the Revolution
General Stockton and General Kearney
Land Commission
The Gulf Stream