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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. A concept espoused by southerners following the Missouri Compromise that would have given southern states the right to refuse to obey laws that they did not agree with
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Nullification
Paved Roads
California Constitution
2. (1774) Britain attempts to gain control of the colonies in response to Boston Tea Party by closing the Boston Harbor - enforcing quartering - closing town meetings and trying British citizens in Britain
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
Intolerable Acts
Mosiac Law
Three - Fifths Compromise
3. I provided for a strong central government and federal taxation
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
1789
4. The south asked these two countries for help during the Civil War
Thomas Paine
France - Britain
Reserved Powers
Atlanta Victory
5. Growth of monopolies - unequal distribution of income - and overspeculation in the stock market
The Rise of the New West created...
Cahuilla
Casues of Depression
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
6. The law the Bostonians protested when soldiers fired on the mobs in the Boston Massacre
Townshend Acts
Executive Branch
Connected by El Camino Real
Pardon of Nixon
7. A polytheistic society located in Central America that made great advances in science and mathematics - but collapsed due to unknown causes
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
Reconstruction of the South
Popular Sovereignty
Maya Indians
8. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
Three - Fifths Compromise
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
9. Federalist - Democratic - Whig - Republican
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
1991
Maya
Emergence of National Parties in US
10. Aztecs are from this period in Mesoamerican History
Initiative
Postclassic period (800 AD)
Atlanta Victory
Immigration Reform Act 1965
11. ...his troops were trapped by Grant's Army
The Missouri Compromise
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Laissez - Faire
Aids to settlement of the West
12. 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
Tan Dynasty
Hupa
The counter - Reformation
Egypt and Mesopatamia
13. First European explorer to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
300 Billion Dollars
Townshend Act
14. (1773) - The Tea Act - passed by Parliament in May of 1773 - would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies - and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed
Tea Act
The Gentleman's Agreement - 1907
Miwok
Russia - China
15. Spanish exploreres that sought the riches of Central and South America - establishing colonies along the way
Egypt
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Conquistadores
16. Powers assigned the National Government
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Delegated Powers
Great Compromise
Greece
17. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
Ponce de Leon
Federalist Papers
Kush
18. Residents of the rancho system in California just before the Mexican - American War - mainly comprised of Mexican citizen who idetified more as Californios than Mesicans
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Sharecroppers
Californios
Executive Branch
19. The start and end of the Age of Discovery
Advances in transportation and communication
Angel Island
1450-1763
Mexican American War
20. Franklin Roosevelt initiated The New Deal
1932 - 1938
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
Chandragupta Maurya
1789
21. Declared National Labor Relations (Wagner Act) was constitutional. Greatly increased congress power under Commerce Clause.
Paved Roads
Intolerable Acts
Monotheism
Labor Board vs J&L Steel Corporations - 1937
22. First declaration of self - government in the new world
Boston Tea Party
Sale of indulgences
Mayflower Compact
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
23. 1200-400BC
Olmec
Concurrent Powers
The Great Awakening
Manifest Destiny
24. WPA Central Valley Project irrigated large portions of the central valley at expense of wetlands to the north - US government response to which event
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
Maya
Caucus (political system)
The Great Depression
25. Largest desert in Calfornia
Silicon Valley
Mojave Desert
The New deal Included
Initiative
26. A land allotment system defined by a few large landowners and many landless workers
Rancho System
Cotton
Tubatulabl
Executive Branch
27. Georgia
No founded as a result of religious persecution
Angel Island
Monotheism
Caucus (political system)
28. Enviornmentally destructive mining process in the Gold Rush and wound down in 1853
Chandragupta Maurya
Hydraulic Mining
Native Californian who became president
Democratic - Republicans
29. Religions established in China as a result of the cross - cultural contact associated with the Silk Road
Mosiac Law
New Frontier Pledge
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
Tea Act
30. 1848 - Was criticized as a proslavery - expansionist war
Ignored by European Invaders
Articles of confederation designed to
Union Advantage
The Mexican War
31. An economic system in which the state controls the means of production and distributes the profits
Communism
Advances in transportation and communication
Reincarnation
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
32. Extends socialistic redistribution of wealth by the state to include government control in social and political areans as well
Ignored by European Invaders
Communism
Battle of Gettysburg
Economic development of American west during 19th century
33. Strength of foreign policy during the early national period
Weak
Order of Acts
The Steam Engine
1990
34. Koran
Religious book of Islam
Mycenaeans
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
35. An informal meeting of party leaders who decide which candidates they will support
Caucus (political system)
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
Northeastern Indian Culture
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
36. A process that gives individual citizens - or groups of citizens - the power to place a proposed law on the ballot
Intolerable Acts
Fief
Significant major development in American Revolution
Initiative
37. A system of government consisting of self - regluating regions (states) united by a central (federal) government
No founded as a result of religious persecution
Chinese
Federalist Papers
Federalism
38. Constantinople controlled both the Mediterranan Sea and the Black Sea trade routes
The Jamestown Colony
Boycotting Britsh Goods
Geographical factors that accounted for emergence of Byzantium as a powerful trading empire
Inca
39. Solved the problem of isolation in California 1969
Phoenicians
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Transcontinental Railroad
Associated withe end of antiquity
40. Primary economic activity in Arabia
Northwest Ordinance
Central Valley Project (CVP)
Agriculture
3500 - 3000 BC
41. Kushite Religion - Egyptian Religion
American civilizations in chronological order
Polytheistic
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
The Steam Engine
42. The need for a strong central government led to the framing of the constituion in what year
1789
Townshend Acts
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
43. Supplemented their hunting with agrictulre. Grew corn - beans and pumpkins in fertile flood plains. Traded with many tribes - tribes include (Quechan (Yuma) Halchidhoma - Mohave.
Diversity of Native Americans
Tan Dynasty
Colorado River Indian Culture
Initiative
44. Years of the Civil War
1932 - 1938
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
1991 - 1992
1861 - 1865
45. Created Judicial Review - ability to reivew a law for viloations
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
Recall
Thomas Paine
Sharecroppers
46. Fished on canoe shaped rafts - relied heavily on salmon and acorns. Haproons and dragnets to fish. Groves of lvalley oaks - great amounts of acorns for thick suop. San Joaquin Valley - wetlands - birds - duck - geese - elk - antelope.
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Yokuts
Louisiana Purchase
47. California 1821 - 1846 dominant institutions were
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
Kumeyaay
Rancheros
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
48. Gave 18 year olds the right to vote
Center region of US (minus texas)
26th Amendment
Northeastern Indian Culture
Discover westward route to Asia
49. Gave people the right to stand up to Government
Washington
Spanish American War
Atsugewi
2nd & 3rd Amendment
50. President Lincoln realized the war would be long and hard
Spanish American War
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
First Battle of Bull Run
Southern Colonies