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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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2. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
Watts Riots
Mono Lake
Second Constitutional Congress
3. The lowest point in California
Articles of Confederation
Appomattox Court
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Death Valley
4. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Hopewell people
Bill of Rights
General Stockton
Mexican American War
5. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Exeter Compact
presidios
First Continental Congress
legislative branch
6. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Panama Canal
sacred expedition
aeorspace industry
reasons of American immigration
7. 1776 Written by Thomas Jefferson - Based on the ideas of English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke - In Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government' (1690) - he set forth basic ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Jacques Cartier
The Declaration of Independence
John C. Fremont
missions
8. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Revolutionary War
Rhode Island
anti - federalists
Europeans in the New World: Britain
9. 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
Central Valley Project
Dust Bowl
Balboa
Ten Percent Plan
10. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
merchant Sam Brannon
Amendments
Anasazi culture
Confederacy advanage
11. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
California
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
General Stockton and General Kearney
Chinese
12. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Trenton
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
entertainment
The Piedmont
13. 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 Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
General Stockton
free - soil movement
14. (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
The Piedmont
The Declaration of Independence
Major battles of the Civil War
The Great Basin
15. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Pilgrims
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
The Continental Divide
Trenton
16. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Lewis and Clark
The Inca Empire
1850
17. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Exeter Compact
black codes
Chronological order of the colonies
Samuel de Champlain
18. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Pueblo Indians
Radical Republicans
Declaration of Independence
Hernando Cortez
19. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Gentleman's Agreement
tule
Amendments
20. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Russians
Federalist Papers
referendum
Gold
21. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
internment camps
Railroad Act of 1864
Amerindians
reasons of American immigration
22. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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23. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
secession
Sierra Nevadas
the Oregon Territory
Louisiana Purchase
24. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
executive branch
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Delaware
25. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
First Continental Congress
The Gulf Stream
Rodney Case
The interior
26. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Transcontinental Railroad
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
anti - federalists
Bill of Rights
27. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Progressives
The Piedmont
Hopewell people
28. 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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29. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Constitutional Convention
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Andrew Johnson
Europeans in the New World
30. 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
Angel Island
Francisco Montejo
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Election of 1876
31. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Second Constitutional Congress
recall
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Mexican Independence
32. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Mt. Whitney
War of 1812
2002
Georgia
33. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
tule
Democratic Republicans
Father Fermin Lausen
1850
34. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Mexican - American War
California Alien Land Act
Declaration of Independence
Constitutional Convention
35. 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
First Continental Congress
Salton Sea
Amerindians
Revolutionary War
36. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Sebastian Cermeno
General Stockton
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
37. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
aeorspace industry
apparel industry
Depression of 1870
Andrew Johnson
38. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
The Gulf Stream
England and the colonies: differences
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Pilgrims
39. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi
England and the colonies: differences
World War II
First Continental Congress
Federalist Papers
40. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
melting pot
California
Panama Canal
England and the colonies: similarities
41. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
tule
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
acorns
Land Commission
42. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
General Stockton
Samuel de Champlain
tourism
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
43. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Declaration of Independence
black codes
Modoc War
44. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
the conquistadores
Transcontinental Railroad
The Mississippi River
Bill of Rights
45. 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
New Government
Quartering Act
Thirteenth Amendment
Modoc War
46. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
World War II
New Government
Jamestown
pueblos
47. 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
Commodore Sloat
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Compromise of 1850
Irish
48. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
rights of the federal government
Watts Riots
England and the colonies: similarities
Modoc War
49. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Depression of 1870
Mono Lake
the conquistadores
New Government
50. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed
Pony Express
French and Indian War
recall
Central Valley