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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Juan Cabrillo
California
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Russians
2. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Georgia
free - soil movement
recall
Chinese
3. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Jose de Galves
Transcontinental Railroad
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Balboa
4. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
1850
pueblos
tourism
Francisco Montejo
5. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
John C. Fremont
Japanese
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
6. 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
2002
Pony Express
Workingmen's Party
The Great Basin
7. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Emanciptation Proclomation
World War II
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
The Mississippi River
8. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Hernando Cortez
Modoc War
Bill of Rights
9. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
manifest destiny
Puritans
Pueblo Indians
Election of 1876
10. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Lewis and Clark
merchant Sam Brannon
Watts Riots
Hopewell people
11. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Federalist Papers
Emanciptation Proclomation
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
internment camps
12. 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
rights of states
Chinese
The Maya Empire
Irish
13. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
presidios
manifest destiny
Tea Act of 1773
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
14. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Gentleman's Agreement
William Penn
Amerindians
separation of powers
15. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
The Continental Divide
internment camps
The interior
Radical Republicans
16. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Angel Island
Jacques Cartier
The Aztec Empire
Dust Bowl
17. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
The Piedmont
Bill of Rights
merchant Sam Brannon
Father Junipero Serra
18. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Mt. Whitney
Johann Sutter
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Europeans in the New World: France
19. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
Chronological order of the colonies
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Francisco Montejo
20. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Land Commission
Thirteenth Amendment
Townsheld Acts of 1767
apparel industry
21. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Prevailing Westerlies
Exeter Compact
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Bear Flag Revolt
22. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Francisco Montejo
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Mexicans
'strict construction'
23. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Gold
Jose de Galves
Second Constitutional Congress
24. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
The Piedmont
Appomattox Court
merchant Sam Brannon
General Stockton
25. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Maryland
Death Valley
Central Pacific Railroad
Amerindians
26. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
Central Pacific Railroad
separation of powers
Sugar Act
27. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Owens River
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Jose de Galves
28. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
entertainment
Jacksonian democracy
Intolerable Acts of 1774
hydraulic mining -
29. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Second Constitutional Congress
Juan Cabrillo
Panama Canal
England and the colonies: differences
30. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Compromise of 1850
referendum
Father Fermin Lausen
General Stockton and General Kearney
31. 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
Rhode Island
water
Land Commission
Election of 1876
32. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
pueblos
missions
Connecticut Commonwealth
Jacques Cartier
33. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
The Aztec Empire
Land Commission
Appomattox Court
Jamestown
34. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Irish
Pony Express
legislative branch
Sebastian Cermeno
35. 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
Exeter Compact
Magnuson Act of 1943
Revolutionary War
36. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Union advantage
Sebastian Cermeno
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
New Government
37. 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
Mt. Whitney
Delaware
Jamestown
referendum
38. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
Hopewell people
Hernando Cortez
Bear Flag Revolt
Articles of Confederation
39. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
Balboa
pueblos
Ten Percent Plan
40. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Quartering Act
Proclamation of 1763
Mexican - American War
2002
41. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
forty - niners
Hernando Cortez
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
War of 1812
42. 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
entertainment
Georgia
Missouri Compromise of 1820
43. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Ten Percent Plan
War of 1812
Constitutional Convention
nullification
44. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Mono Lake
Prevailing Westerlies
French and Indian War
the conquistadores
45. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
'strict construction'
California
Europeans in the New World
The Great Basin
46. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
England and the colonies: differences
Pony Express
Federalist Papers
Henry Hudson
47. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Depression of 1870
Olmec Empire
southern anad eastern European
Quartering Act
48. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
nullification
Pony Express
Louisiana Purchase
Georgia
49. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
The Great Basin
nullification
initiative
apparel industry
50. 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
Union advantage
Radical Republicans
Mt. Whitney
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