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CSET U.S And California History
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1. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Russians
Owens River
Mayflower Compact
Battle of Gettysberg
2. 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
Election of 1876
squatters
aeorspace industry
judicial branch
3. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
General Stockton and General Kearney
Louisiana Purchase
Land Commission
Father Fermin Lausen
4. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Progressives
legislative branch
The Appalachian Mountains
Sugar Act
5. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Articles of Confederation
Dust Bowl
Germans
World War II
6. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
The Inca Empire
The interior
Hopewell people
Confederacy advanage
7. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
manifest destiny
the conquistadores
Pony Express
8. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Second Constitutional Congress
Chinese
Puritans
Tea Act of 1773
9. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Workingmen's Party
John C. Fremont
Whig Party
squatters
10. 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
Silicon Valley
the Great Compromise
Panama Canal
The Industrial Era of the United States
11. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Francisco Pizarro
the Oregon Territory
Workingmen's Party
French and Indian War
12. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Missouri Compromise of 1820
French and Indian War
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The interior
13. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Father Junipero Serra
Mt. Whitney
Maryland
14. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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15. 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
Magnuson Act of 1943
Mayflower Compact
The Inca Empire
Prevailing Westerlies
16. 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
legislative branch
Amerindians
Japanese
Silicon Valley
17. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Bill of Rights
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Radical Republicans
18. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
rights of the federal government
sacred expedition
War of 1812
Olmec Empire
19. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
squatters
internment camps
Proposition 13
Tea Act of 1773
20. Southeatern California native american tribes
Confederacy advanage
Delaware
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Puritans
21. 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
Transcontinental Railroad
Workingmen's Party
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
22. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
sacred expedition
2002
War of 1812
23. Drains the interior of the United States
The Mississippi River
John C. Fremont
Andrew Johnson
Democratic Republicans
24. 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
Mono Lake
Federalist Papers
Workingmen's Party
recall
25. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Jose de Galves
entertainment
Mississippian culture
California Alien Land Act
26. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Federalist Papers
Louisiana Purchase
England and the colonies: similarities
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
27. (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
Chronological order of the colonies
tourism
Andrew Johnson
Balboa
28. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Mayflower Compact
black codes
Revolutionary War
presidios
29. 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
the Oregon Territory
internment camps
Revolutionary War
Puritans
30. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
1850
John C. Fremont
Chronological order of the colonies
Transcontinental Railroad
31. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
Confederacy advanage
Workingmen's Party
The Gulf Stream
32. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
entertainment
The Appalachian Mountains
Georgia
Europeans in the New World: Britain
33. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Emanciptation Proclomation
Radical Republicans
World War II
Johann Sutter
34. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
Central Valley Project
Johann Sutter
tourism
35. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Sugar Act
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
recall
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
36. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Constitution
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The Gulf Stream
England and the colonies: similarities
37. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Progressives
Hernando Cortez
reasons of American immigration
Juan Cabrillo
38. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Confederacy advanage
Trenton
Rodney Case
Puritans
39. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Stamp Tax
Connecticut Commonwealth
the Great Compromise
Thirteenth Amendment
40. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states
Constitution
Transcontinental Railroad
decline of the Mayan civlization
John C. Fremont
41. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Intolerable Acts of 1774
pueblos
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Watts Riots
42. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Second Constitutional Congress
separation of powers
Sir Francis Drake
43. (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
Olmec Empire
Railroad Act of 1864
The Industrial Era of the United States
Major battles of the Civil War
44. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Revolutionary War
Chronological order of the colonies
federalism
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
45. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Silicon Valley
Tea Act of 1773
The Industrial Era of the United States
46. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
how Union defeated Confederates
anti - federalists
Confederacy advanage
railroad
47. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Continental Divide
Germans
Johann Sutter
48. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Bill of Rights
reasons of American immigration
Commodore Sloat
separation of powers
49. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
French and Indian War
Jose de Galves
The southeastern Coastal Plain
The Piedmont
50. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
Bill of Rights
Hiram Johnson
Olmec Empire
The Aztec Empire