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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Mexican - American War
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
pueblos
War of 1812
2. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
rights of the federal government
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Okies
Hiram Johnson
3. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Owens River
Depression of 1870
Revolutionary War
4. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
tule
Germans
southern anad eastern European
separation of powers
5. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Toltecs
the Great Compromise
Watts Riots
Trenton
6. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Yorktown
Missouri Compromise of 1820
recall
Emanciptation Proclomation
7. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Bill of Rights
Jose Figueroa
entertainment
8. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Democratic Republicans
water
hydraulic mining -
9. 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
Election of 1876
Mexican American War
Francisco Montejo
Major battles of the Civil War
10. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
England and the colonies: differences
Europeans in the New World: France
Sebastian Vicaino
The Gulf Stream
11. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Hernando Cortes
Important Battles of the Revolution
Sebastian Cermeno
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
12. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
Bill of Rights
Samuel de Champlain
The Inca Empire
13. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Railroad Act of 1864
Toltecs
Second Constitutional Congress
Proclamation of 1763
14. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Sir Francis Drake
Juan Cabrillo
New Government
15. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
'strict construction'
Central Pacific Railroad
Francisco Montejo
Proclamation of 1763
16. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
southern anad eastern European
the conquistadores
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Tea Act of 1773
17. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Chinese
secession
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
18. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Transcontinental Railroad
Thirteenth Amendment
Francisco Pizarro
Russians
19. 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.
French and Indian War
'strict construction'
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
The Declaration of Independence
20. 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
Hopewell people
Three - Fifths Compromise
Democratic Republicans
21. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Second Constitutional Congress
Silicon Valley
The southeastern Coastal Plain
railroad
22. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Constitutional Convention
forty - niners
separation of powers
23. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Uncle Tom's Cabin
sacred expedition
2002
Jacques Cartier
24. 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
Mono Lake
Amerindians
Proposition 13
tourism
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
The interior
Magnuson Act of 1943
hydraulic mining -
The Industrial Era of the United States
26. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
hydraulic mining -
Japanese
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Missouri Compromise of 1820
27. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Immigration Act of 1965
Union advantage
2002
Pony Express
28. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Transcontinental Railroad
executive branch
The Maya Empire
29. 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
Tea Act of 1773
forty - niners
Angel Island
The Industrial Era of the United States
30. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Confederacy advanage
tourism
Gentleman's Agreement
Puritans
31. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
anti - federalists
Stamp Tax
England and the colonies: similarities
Hernando Cortes
32. 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
John C. Fremont
Chronological order of the colonies
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Industrial Era of the United States
33. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Jamestown
Radical Republicans
Union advantage
Europeans in the New World
34. 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
secession
Union advantage
England and the colonies: similarities
35. A major mountain range in California
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Sierra Nevadas
Bear Flag Revolt
Father Fermin Lausen
36. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Gold
New Government
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Depression of 1870
37. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
The Appalachian Mountains
'strict construction'
Europeans in the New World: France
reasons of American immigration
38. 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
Three - Fifths Compromise
Maryland
The Piedmont
England and the colonies: differences
39. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
Chinese
Mono Lake
Hernando Cortez
40. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
The Declaration of Independence
Yorktown
melting pot
forty - niners
41. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Amerindians
The southeastern Coastal Plain
the Great Compromise
Three - Fifths Compromise
42. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
England and the colonies: differences
legislative branch
Watts Riots
Okies
43. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Second Constitutional Congress
Sebastian Vicaino
Maryland
44. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
The interior
Yorktown
Mississippian culture
Juan Cabrillo
45. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Commodore Sloat
black codes
Juan Cabrillo
Francisco Pizarro
46. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Samuel de Champlain
Bill of Rights
issue of representation under the Constitution
Toltecs
47. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Major battles of the Civil War
Bear Flag Revolt
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dust Bowl
48. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Mexican - American War
Appomattox Court
Anasazi culture
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
49. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Gold
Democratic Republicans
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Revolutionary War
50. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Europeans in the New World: Spain
rights of the federal government
The Appalachian Mountains
The Piedmont
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