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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Gold
Sierra Nevadas
the Oregon Territory
2. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Three - Fifths Compromise
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Articles of Confederation
Samuel de Champlain
3. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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4. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Chinese
apparel industry
California
Mono Lake
5. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Silicon Valley
Whig Party
Jacksonian democracy
Europeans in the New World: Spain
6. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Rhode Island
Louisiana Purchase
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Maryland
7. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
England and the colonies: similarities
Sebastian Vicaino
Chronological order of the colonies
forty - niners
8. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Mexican - American War
melting pot
Amerindians
Missouri Compromise of 1820
9. Lincoln's vice president became president
Yorktown
Democratic Republicans
Owens River
Andrew Johnson
10. 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
Federalist Party
Jose de Galves
Father Fermin Lausen
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
11. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Angel Island
issue of representation under the Constitution
Magnuson Act of 1943
Rodney Case
12. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Jacques Cartier
The Declaration of Independence
Stamp Tax
Railroad Act of 1864
13. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Modoc War
Important Battles of the Revolution
missions
Progressives
14. (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
Major battles of the Civil War
Chinese
California
Mexican - American War
15. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Federalist Party
Hernando Cortez
Union advantage
decline of the Mayan civlization
16. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
Johann Sutter
Hernando Cortez
England and the colonies: similarities
initiative
17. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
World War II
Chinese
Japanese
18. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Thirteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
19. 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
Magnuson Act of 1943
Federalist Party
forty - niners
Articles of Confederation
20. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
loose construction
Dust Bowl
Quartering Act
Important Battles of the Revolution
21. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Three - Fifths Compromise
Francisco Pizarro
Missouri Compromise of 1820
22. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
French and Indian War
New Government
Japanese
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
23. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
General Stockton and General Kearney
Father Fermin Lausen
Ten Percent Plan
black codes
24. People who took land from the original Californios
Lewis and Clark
squatters
Sebastian Cermeno
Bill of Rights
25. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Yorktown
Uncle Tom's Cabin
southern anad eastern European
General Stockton and General Kearney
26. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Lewis and Clark
rancho system
The Great Basin
anti - federalists
27. 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
Tea Act of 1773
Magnuson Act of 1943
England and the colonies: similarities
The Industrial Era of the United States
28. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
free - soil movement
Francisco Pizarro
Pilgrims
29. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Emanciptation Proclomation
Owens River
issue of representation under the Constitution
Hiram Johnson
30. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
William Penn
Progressives
Articles of Confederation
Trenton
31. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Second Constitutional Congress
2002
entertainment
Watts Riots
32. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
apparel industry
Anasazi culture
Owens River
New Government
33. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Modoc War
Three - Fifths Compromise
Okies
reasons of American immigration
34. 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
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Uncle Tom's Cabin
35. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Battle of Gettysberg
aeorspace industry
Declaration of Independence
Okies
36. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
California Alien Land Act
Francisco Montejo
Jamestown
The Continental Divide
37. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Pony Express
nullification
William Penn
Articles of Confederation
38. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
tule
Pilgrims
Rodney Case
Salton Sea
39. 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
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Townsheld Acts of 1767
referendum
40. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Japanese
Important Battles of the Revolution
the Oregon Territory
41. 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
Proposition 13
Workingmen's Party
Pilgrims
forty - niners
42. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Balboa
Toltecs
Transcontinental Railroad
Prevailing Westerlies
43. 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
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Central Valley Project
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
2002
44. 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
Emanciptation Proclomation
Connecticut Commonwealth
southern anad eastern European
45. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Europeans in the New World
World War II
Hopewell people
Pueblo Indians
46. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
Three - Fifths Compromise
1850
The Continental Divide
47. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
The Declaration of Independence
French and Indian War
Constitutional Convention
Transcontinental Railroad
48. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Puritans
decline of the Mayan civlization
49. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
judicial branch
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Constitution
50. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Trenton
Sierra Nevadas
Russians
Mississippian culture