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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The two major deserts in California
Jamestown
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
French and Indian War
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
2. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
California
Europeans in the New World: Britain
the conquistadores
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
3. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Confederacy advanage
internment camps
Louisiana Purchase
4. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Central Valley
Pueblo Indians
manifest destiny
5. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Olmec Empire
Radical Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Mayflower Compact
6. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
melting pot
tourism
Mexican Independence
the Oregon Territory
7. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
recall
Hopewell people
Hiram Johnson
8. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
General Stockton and General Kearney
Salton Sea
Japanese
The Appalachian Mountains
9. 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
Federalist Papers
entertainment
Democratic Republicans
The Inca Empire
10. 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
missions
Andrew Johnson
rights of states
Radical Republicans
11. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
referendum
Proposition 13
Anasazi culture
Hernando Cortez
12. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Pueblo Indians
Maryland
Mexican - American War
Father Fermin Lausen
13. 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
Emanciptation Proclomation
Johann Sutter
Chinese
14. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Prevailing Westerlies
Okies
Yorktown
The Piedmont
15. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
manifest destiny
issue of representation under the Constitution
Union advantage
16. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Appomattox Court
Quartering Act
Silicon Valley
acorns
17. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Townsheld Acts of 1767
pueblos
The Aztec Empire
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
18. 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
Jacksonian democracy
Quartering Act
Union advantage
Death Valley
19. The lowest point in California
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Father Fermin Lausen
Death Valley
Europeans in the New World: Spain
20. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
pueblos
Mono Lake
The Continental Divide
Jose de Galves
21. 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
Election of 1876
Connecticut Commonwealth
Trenton
referendum
22. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
melting pot
Puritans
The Maya Empire
Important Battles of the Revolution
23. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Democratic Republicans
Exeter Compact
Jamestown
24. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Trenton
Quartering Act
General Stockton and General Kearney
25. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
Owens River
Proposition 13
Thirteenth Amendment
England and the colonies: similarities
26. 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
1850
presidios
Proposition 13
Rodney Case
27. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Confederacy advanage
Bill of Rights
Mono Lake
28. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Railroad Act of 1864
Jacques Cartier
Townsheld Acts of 1767
29. 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
The Continental Divide
initiative
squatters
War of 1812
30. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Articles of Confederation
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
squatters
Owens River
31. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Declaration of Independence
Important Battles of the Revolution
32. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
England and the colonies: similarities
Confederacy advanage
free - soil movement
Townsheld Acts of 1767
33. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
The Industrial Era of the United States
how Union defeated Confederates
Mono Lake
Mayflower Compact
34. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
'strict construction'
loose construction
Bill of Rights
35. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Sierra Nevadas
secession
2002
Battle of Gettysberg
36. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
separation of powers
First Continental Congress
Maryland
Federalist Party
37. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Jacques Cartier
issue of representation under the Constitution
Battle of Gettysberg
Okies
38. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
rancho system
Louisiana Purchase
Chronological order of the colonies
merchant Sam Brannon
39. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Maryland
Henry Hudson
Watts Riots
Second Constitutional Congress
40. 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
Juan Cabrillo
Emanciptation Proclomation
1850
41. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexican - American War
Mexicans
Irish
rights of the federal government
42. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
acorns
Emanciptation Proclomation
southern anad eastern European
Great Awakening
43. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
Stamp Tax
Sir Francis Drake
Exeter Compact
44. 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
Toltecs
Confederacy advanage
Land Commission
45. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Chinese
legislative branch
New Government
Federalist Party
46. 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
Whig Party
Europeans in the New World: Spain
missions
Louisiana Purchase
47. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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48. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Confederacy advanage
Constitution
Europeans in the New World
Hopewell people
49. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Father Junipero Serra
Connecticut Commonwealth
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Pilgrims
50. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Salton Sea
Immigration Act of 1965
Henry Hudson
Battle of Gettysberg