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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Modoc War
The Appalachian Mountains
Europeans in the New World: Spain
2. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Delaware
Juan Cabrillo
Maryland
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
3. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Hopewell people
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
entertainment
Sebastian Vicaino
4. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Second Constitutional Congress
apparel industry
sacred expedition
Mexicans
5. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
Federalist Papers
sacred expedition
Rhode Island
6. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Jamestown
Trenton
Immigration Act of 1965
7. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Louisiana Purchase
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
8. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
railroad
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Townsheld Acts of 1767
November 1849
9. 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
Yorktown
decline of the Mayan civlization
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
10. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Russians
Thirteenth Amendment
Whig Party
Europeans in the New World
11. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
England and the colonies: differences
Rodney Case
French and Indian War
Proposition 13
12. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Toltecs
Proclamation of 1763
judicial branch
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
13. The lowest point in California
Trenton
presidios
Thirteenth Amendment
Death Valley
14. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Bill of Rights
tule
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
15. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Rodney Case
Silicon Valley
merchant Sam Brannon
The Great Basin
16. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
Father Junipero Serra
French and Indian War
Stamp Tax
17. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Johann Sutter
Europeans in the New World: Britain
The Piedmont
18. 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
Exeter Compact
manifest destiny
Second Constitutional Congress
19. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
apparel industry
World War II
Transcontinental Railroad
Democratic Republicans
20. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
Francisco Montejo
Rhode Island
Sugar Act
21. 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
anti - federalists
War of 1812
The Chinese Exclusion Act
22. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Mississippi River
Puritans
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
23. 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
Chinese
Sebastian Vicaino
legislative branch
24. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Proposition 13
Sir Francis Drake
Rodney Case
2002
25. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
secession
hydraulic mining -
executive branch
California
26. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Confederacy advanage
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
27. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Puritans
Owens River
Sierra Nevadas
black codes
28. 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
Declaration of Independence
Olmec Empire
secession
Tea Act of 1773
29. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Mt. Whitney
French and Indian War
Francisco Montejo
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
30. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
The Gulf Stream
General Stockton
California
31. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
loose construction
decline of the Mayan civlization
Confederacy advanage
Mayflower Compact
32. 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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33. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Hiram Johnson
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
nullification
Mt. Whitney
34. 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
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35. 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
Owens River
Second Constitutional Congress
Francisco Montejo
36. 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
Federalist Party
Balboa
Sir Francis Drake
The Maya Empire
37. 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
Francisco Montejo
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
railroad
Democratic Republicans
38. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Thirteenth Amendment
Watts Riots
Germans
The Piedmont
39. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
rancho system
Sierra Nevadas
40. (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
General Stockton
Olmec Empire
Major battles of the Civil War
merchant Sam Brannon
41. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
November 1849
Modoc War
Chronological order of the colonies
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
42. 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
missions
black codes
November 1849
executive branch
43. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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44. Drains the interior of the United States
Tea Act of 1773
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Stamp Tax
The Mississippi River
45. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
internment camps
Emanciptation Proclomation
Bill of Rights
Toltecs
46. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
Hiram Johnson
entertainment
Hernando Cortes
Maryland
47. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
tule
2002
Bill of Rights
Whig Party
48. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
Amerindians
Union advantage
separation of powers
Central Valley
49. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Francisco Pizarro
Pony Express
forty - niners
50. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
California Alien Land Act
'strict construction'
Mississippian culture
Lewis and Clark