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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Rancheros
New Frontier Pledge
Hinduism
2. A series of Islands
Japan
CA Indians prior to European contact
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
3. English Mercantile policy discouraged economic independence - Colonial concepts of political and economic freedom - Colonies used boycotts and other measures - Declaration of Independence stated the purposes for the Colonial break with England
Referendum
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Vicksburg Battle
End of Reconstruction
4. Social justice for blacks - National committment to equal opportunity
Recall
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
Buddhism
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
5. Credited with first implementation of democracy into government (citizens held public meetings - pass law - choose officials) No slaves - women or foreigners
Fief
Greeks
Articles of Confederation Dates
Chumash
6. High value or hard work. Trout and fish gathered with nests in rivers and lakes. Rabbits hunted in groups. Larger game by individuals - trned over kill to village for general use. Sixth days set for rest - Big annual celebration autumnal pakapi or 'b
Atsugewi
Taoism
Mesopotamiia
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
7. General who led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Ulysses S. Grant
Inca
Sharecroppers
8. National Government did not have the power to regulate foreign trade - had no court system - no independent taxing power - could not enforce national laws
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Cattle ranching
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Dust Bowl
9. Without evidence of disloyalty it demonstrated that constitutional safeguards could be rendered ineffective in wartime
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
John Adams
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
10. This ideology encouraged U.S. expansion to the Pacific
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Reserved Powers
Billeting Act of 1765
Manifest Destiny
11. Most common religion of Arabian civilization
Islam
Weak
Parliment Repealed the Act
The federal deficit escalated dramatically in the 1980s and threatened the economic stability of the U.S. What 2 things contributed to this?
12. An informal system of the exchange of goods and services among individuals
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
CA Indians prior to European contact
No founded as a result of religious persecution
Barter
13. Law of supply and demand
Jacksonian Democracy
Center region of US (minus texas)
Economics
Boston Tea Party
14. Sherman Anti - Trust Act (1890) - Clayton Anti - Trust Act (1914). The National Labor Relations Act (1935) - collective bargaining rights for employees.
End of WWI
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
15. Natural lake that has been threatened by the water needs of L.A.
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
Mono Lake
Copernicus
1932 - 1938
16. Restrict growth of corporations
Check their Westward Expansion
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Kumeyaay
Thomas Paine
17. Individual state rights - slavery - cotton - and the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
Tongva (Gabrielino)
1979 - 1981
Reason for Civil War
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
18. The power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to congress and trumps the power of the state
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
Feudalism
Cotton
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
19. Japan feudalism had as its basis
Salton sea
Chinese Confucian Morality
European Society under feudalism
Law of Supply and Demand
20. Aztecs are from this period in Mesoamerican History
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
Factors that led to American Revolution
Postclassic period (800 AD)
First Battle of Bull Run
21. Turning point in England's domination over North America (1756- 1763)
Greeks
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
The French Indian War
1990
22. The worship of only one god
Vicksburg Battle
Monotheism
Federalism practiced in early Republic
Reconstruction
23. River valley villages - families owned their hunting and fishing ground - tobacco plots and oak trees. Real estate passed on through the males. Money was clamshell disks and dentalia.
Spanish American War
Shasta
Industrial Revolution in England
Labor Board vs J&L Steel Corporations - 1937
24. Gain permanent access to the Mediterranean Sea
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25. Contributed to the growth of slavery
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
Mojave Desert
Cotton
26. Outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory
Intolerable Acts
Barter
American Revolution Chronological Order
Northwest Ordinance
27. Proposed the beginning of Europe's Scientific Revolution - that Earth revolved around the sun
Communism
The French Indian War
American Revolution Chronological Order
Copernicus
28. Social rank on basis of wealth. Retained privledges passing fortunes to next generations. Salmon and acorn diet. Rituals like White Deerskins and Jumping Dances. Dance done to ward off disease and famin. Recite long narratives and display wealthy obj
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
Hupa
The Steam Engine
1991
29. Prior to Mexican American war - the most important industry in California was (1821 - 1848)
Native Californian who became president
Cattle ranching
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Caste
30. Consdiered to be the basis for the justice system in use throughout much of the Western world - including the United States
Antietam
Greeks
Justinian Code
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
31. Annual floods - enriched lands for farming and cattle - timber and iron ore deposits - capital on major trade routes - riches from gold and emerald mines
Kush
Influenced by christianity
The Great Depression
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
32. Federalist - Democratic - Whig - Republican
Stamp Act
Emergence of National Parties in US
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
Free - soliders
33. Forts build by the Spanish to offer protection to california's missionaries and settlers during periods of violent revolt by native workers
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Stamp Act
Presidio
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
34. Two thirds vote of Congress and then three fourths vote of the states to ratify
Dust Bowl Regugees of 1930's
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
Amendment to the Constituion Requires
35. Stamp - Declatory - Townshend - Boston Massacre
Order of Acts
1979 - 1981
Paved Roads
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
36. Catholic churches influenced development in medieval Europe
American Revolution Chronological Order
Transcontinental Railroad
Parliment Repealed the Act
Emergence of Universities
37. A social economic - and political system in which power is decentralized - and a varying number of lords hold land on which they allow others to live and work in return for loyalty and service
Feudalism
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Mercantilism
Presidio
38. Distinct social class - elite were wealthy individuals and headmen Marriage only in same class.
Emergence of National Parties in US
Referendum
Yokuts
Tongva (Gabrielino)
39. No taxation without representation
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Stamp Act
Hupa
40. Created Great Wall of China - use of currency - weight and measure standardized - tomb of terra - cotta army
The Qin Dynasty
Sun
Miwok
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
41. The Savings and Loan bankruptcies resulted in massive federal intervention to cover
300 Billion Dollars
The federal deficit escalated dramatically in the 1980s and threatened the economic stability of the U.S. What 2 things contributed to this?
Stamp Act
Rancho System
42. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Sharecroppers
Popular Sovereignty
Ponce de Leon
Emergence of Universities
43. Free market capitalism
Check their Westward Expansion
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
1991
Laissez - Faire
44. I provided for a strong central government and federal taxation
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Sierra Nevada
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Whig Party
45. Earliest sophisticated culture of the Andean Highland civilization
Chumas
Chavin
Mesopotamiia
House of Burgesses
46. Senators to be directly elected by the people
The Mexican War
Emergence of National Parties in US
Townshend Acts
17th Amendment
47. Criminal supsects must be informed of their miranda rights
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
48. One of China's greatest dynasties
Dust Bowl
Tan Dynasty
First Battle of Bull Run
Socialism
49. The start and end of the Age of Discovery
1450-1763
Northwestern Indian Culture
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Democratic - Republican Party
50. Not a feature of ancient Inida
China
Tongva (Gabrielino)
Scalawags
Fluid social structure