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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Europeans in the New World: France
Chinese
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
The southeastern Coastal Plain
2. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Dust Bowl
Central Pacific Railroad
Andrew Johnson
presidios
3. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Andrew Johnson
California Alien Land Act
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Sugar Act
4. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Continental Divide
Commodore Sloat
missions
5. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
reasons of American immigration
hydraulic mining -
6. 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
Mexicans
Land Commission
entertainment
the Great Compromise
7. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
the conquistadores
Constitutional Convention
Radical Republicans
Compromise of 1850
8. 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
The Aztec Empire
Land Commission
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Sebastian Cermeno
9. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Proclamation of 1763
Japanese
Europeans in the New World
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
10. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
executive branch
England and the colonies: differences
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
11. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
Francisco Montejo
Whig Party
Trenton
12. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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13. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
presidios
Salton Sea
14. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
Toltecs
judicial branch
Francisco Montejo
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
15. 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
Lewis and Clark
Chinese
England and the colonies: differences
16. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
The interior
The Mississippi River
the Great Compromise
Watts Riots
17. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
federalism
Salton Sea
Mono Lake
Okies
18. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Jose Figueroa
Silicon Valley
the conquistadores
19. 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
Major battles of the Civil War
Olmec Empire
Articles of Confederation
anti - federalists
20. 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
rights of states
judicial branch
hydraulic mining -
Panama Canal
21. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Sierra Nevadas
apparel industry
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Compromise of 1850
22. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
the Great Compromise
The Maya Empire
Trenton
merchant Sam Brannon
23. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Owens River
General Stockton
Mono Lake
reasons of American immigration
24. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Mt. Whitney
Mexican - American War
William Penn
25. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
The Continental Divide
Dust Bowl
Bill of Rights
World War II
26. Southeatern California native american tribes
Chinese
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Mono Lake
November 1849
27. 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
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Commodore Sloat
referendum
Transcontinental Railroad
28. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Immigration Act of 1965
The Declaration of Independence
reasons of American immigration
29. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
rights of states
forty - niners
Hopewell people
30. 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
Declaration of Independence
squatters
Chinese
Prevailing Westerlies
31. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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32. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
aeorspace industry
Jose Figueroa
33. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
General Stockton and General Kearney
federalism
anti - federalists
southern anad eastern European
34. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Federalist Papers
The Great Basin
presidios
35. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Appomattox Court
Sugar Act
sacred expedition
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
36. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Japanese
southern anad eastern European
Second Constitutional Congress
The Piedmont
37. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
Panama Canal
Gentleman's Agreement
Silicon Valley
38. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chronological order of the colonies
Federalist Party
Hernando Cortez
39. 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
Mexican American War
Election of 1876
Amendments
Intolerable Acts of 1774
40. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
England and the colonies: similarities
Father Fermin Lausen
Puritans
The Declaration of Independence
41. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
rights of the federal government
Yorktown
Death Valley
Transcontinental Railroad
42. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Central Valley Project
The Great Basin
Watts Riots
sacred expedition
43. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Declaration of Independence
Modoc War
Europeans in the New World: Spain
separation of powers
44. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Whig Party
Father Fermin Lausen
General Stockton
recall
45. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
The Maya Empire
secession
loose construction
melting pot
46. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Transcontinental Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Owens River
47. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Bear Flag Revolt
Ten Percent Plan
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
issue of representation under the Constitution
48. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Watts Riots
Compromise of 1850
Dust Bowl
Russians
49. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
The Great Basin
Gentleman's Agreement
forty - niners
federalism
50. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Proposition 13
Appomattox Court
nullification
California Alien Land Act
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