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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Jamestown
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Father Fermin Lausen
Federalist Party
2. 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
French and Indian War
Hernando Cortes
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Connecticut Commonwealth
3. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
Amerindians
California
nullification
4. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Central Pacific Railroad
Workingmen's Party
Proposition 13
Bill of Rights
5. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
Father Junipero Serra
Dust Bowl
Mt. Whitney
6. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Constitutional Convention
Radical Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Britain
the conquistadores
7. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Jose Figueroa
Sebastian Cermeno
issue of representation under the Constitution
initiative
8. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
rancho system
Silicon Valley
Union advantage
9. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
Hopewell people
The Maya Empire
Democratic Republicans
10. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
the Great Compromise
General Stockton and General Kearney
Democratic Republicans
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
11. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
Louisiana Purchase
Irish
November 1849
12. 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
Balboa
Mayflower Compact
Prevailing Westerlies
free - soil movement
13. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Central Pacific Railroad
Important Battles of the Revolution
recall
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
14. The lowest point in California
Toltecs
Death Valley
Chinese
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
15. Gave southerneers a stronger fugitive slave law and popular sovereignty (territories would have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to adopt slavery on their borders) over newly conquered Mexico areas in exchange for Califor
Compromise of 1850
The interior
Rodney Case
internment camps
16. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Mexican - American War
November 1849
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Thirteenth Amendment
17. 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
rights of states
The Mississippi River
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
18. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Salton Sea
John C. Fremont
Magnuson Act of 1943
Intolerable Acts of 1774
19. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
recall
The Declaration of Independence
20. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
rights of states
Radical Republicans
Yorktown
Puritans
21. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Important Battles of the Revolution
Compromise of 1850
Mexican American War
Connecticut Commonwealth
22. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
pueblos
Pueblo Indians
England and the colonies: differences
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
23. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
southern anad eastern European
The interior
Depression of 1870
rancho system
24. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Constitutional Convention
rancho system
reasons of American immigration
Gold
25. 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
William Penn
Europeans in the New World: France
Revolutionary War
Rhode Island
26. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Modoc War
Quartering Act
Land Commission
27. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
loose construction
Progressives
The Declaration of Independence
Appomattox Court
28. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Thirteenth Amendment
First Continental Congress
Jamestown
judicial branch
29. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
French and Indian War
The Piedmont
Lewis and Clark
Stamp Tax
30. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
The Maya Empire
Quartering Act
rights of the federal government
Owens River
31. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Rhode Island
Mono Lake
New Government
Henry Hudson
32. 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
free - soil movement
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Amerindians
Central Valley
33. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Johann Sutter
The Piedmont
California
34. 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
referendum
manifest destiny
Jacksonian democracy
Jamestown
35. 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
Hopewell people
Democratic Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Hiram Johnson
36. Central California native American tribes
Constitution
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Appomattox Court
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
37. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Samuel de Champlain
Europeans in the New World: France
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mexican American War
38. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
acorns
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Puritans
decline of the Mayan civlization
39. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
internment camps
Constitution
issue of representation under the Constitution
Federalist Party
40. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Rodney Case
Declaration of Independence
Appomattox Court
Olmec Empire
41. 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
Chinese
recall
Election of 1876
Jacksonian democracy
42. 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
Irish
Okies
Juan Cabrillo
Europeans in the New World: France
43. An era fueled by availabliity of a cheap labor pool in the form of recent immigrants. Newly built factories attracted even more immigrants to the states
'strict construction'
Hernando Cortez
Father Fermin Lausen
The Industrial Era of the United States
44. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Mississippian culture
French and Indian War
Hernando Cortez
Election of 1876
45. 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
Dust Bowl
tourism
The Inca Empire
Jose Figueroa
46. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
The Aztec Empire
New Government
tourism
Battle of Gettysberg
47. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Election of 1876
Hiram Johnson
the conquistadores
The Inca Empire
48. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
The Gulf Stream
Proclamation of 1763
aeorspace industry
Emanciptation Proclomation
49. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Father Fermin Lausen
Trenton
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Important Battles of the Revolution
50. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Union advantage
Connecticut Commonwealth