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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Proposed the beginning of Europe's Scientific Revolution - that Earth revolved around the sun
Daniel Shays
Copernicus
Californios
Southern Colonies
2. The GDP dropped. Unemployment increased. The 'Big Three' automakers posted record losses. Bankruptcies increased. The Fed lowered interest rates in an attempt to stimulate the economy
Law of Supply and Demand
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
France
Declaration of Independence
3. Quail
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
Plato
1846
CA state bird
4. 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
Laissez - Faire
Bicarmeral
'We can do it' poster of a woman
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
5. 1876 Election
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Manifest Destiny
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
Protect sovereignty of the states
6. 1929
Battle of Gettysburg
Union Strategy
Federalism
Great Depression Began
7. CA had greatest concentration of Indians in N. America
Serf
American Revolution Chronological Order
The Mayflower Compact
CA Indians prior to European contact
8. (1767) Taxed many products such as paper - glass and tea
Billeting Act of 1765
Townshend Act
Salton sea
Great Compromise
9. Restrict growth of corporations
Reserved Powers
Relations among social groups
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Features of ancient India
10. Years of the Civil War
Executive Branch
1861 - 1865
Manors
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
11. Caused a wave of immigration into California in the 1930's
Islam
Dust Bowl
Recall
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
12. 1863 - This battle ended the souths chance of foreign recognition
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
Battle of Gettysburg
1776 - 1781
Military Reconstruction Acts
13. A branch of the system of checks and balances that sees that the country's laws are executed
Radical Reconstruction Years
Watergate
Executive Branch
The Annexation of Texas
14. Division of defined classes - merchant middle class
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
Money - Econcomy
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
15. Senators to be directly elected by the people
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
Secession
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
17th Amendment
16. The colonists strongest weapon against the unpopular British Tax measures
Intolerable Acts
Completion of the Railroad in California
Boycotting Britsh Goods
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
17. 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
Egyptians
The Jamestown Colony
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Nullification
18. The 1803 purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson that essentially doubled the United States territory
Federalism
Louisiana Purchase
Law of Supply and Demand
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
19. The United States obtained posession of this region in an 1846 treaty with Great Britian
Religious book of Islam
Intolerable Acts
Economics
Center region of US (minus texas)
20. Temprary resolution to the free/slave state controversey
Taoism
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Decline of the Roman empire
Battle of Gettysburg
21. Maryland - Rhode Island - Pennsylvania
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Founded as a result of religious persecution
Reconstruction
Spain
22. Feared a strong central government
26th Amendment
Antifederalists
Factors that led to American Revolution
The Rise of the New West created...
23. They replaced the Japanese as low- paid agricultural workers
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Middle Colonies
The Annexation of Texas
Angel Island
24. A philosophy - along with election rules - that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended
Secession
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
The Mexican War
Seperate but Equal
25. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Order of Acts
Diversity of Native Americans
Pardon of Nixon
26. An informal meeting of party leaders who decide which candidates they will support
Achumawi
Caucus (political system)
New England Colonies
Laissez - Faire
27. A religious group who had broken away from the Church of England - first relocating to Holland to escape persecution - then setting sail in the fall of 1620 to become the first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts
Watergate
Constantine
Executive Branch
Pilgrims
28. Capitol of the South
John Adams
Sun
Richmond
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
29. A nickname for the Southern part of San Francisco Bay Area in the northern California - originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers - but eventually referring to the concentration of all types of high - tech
Townshend Act
The Great Basin
Silicon Valley
Reason for Civil War
30. This ideology encouraged U.S. expansion to the Pacific
The Legal code of france
Manifest Destiny
Industrial Revolution in England
Mono Lake
31. Soviet Union was desolved in
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Confederate Advantage
Articles of Confederation
1991
32. A branch of the system of checks and balances that interprets Congressional laws
Judicial Branch
Socialism
California Geographic Features
Characteristics of the European Renissance
33. Trade gap widened. Japan and Germany surpassed the U.S. in automobiles and airlines
Reconstruction
The federal deficit escalated dramatically in the 1980s and threatened the economic stability of the U.S. What 2 things contributed to this?
CA state flower
Religious book of Islam
34. Turning point of the war
Center region of US (minus texas)
Battle of Gettysburg
The counter - Reformation
The French Indian War
35. Belief in reincarnation - belief that through meditation one can frind freedom from suffering and enter Nirvana - respect for all living creatures
1991
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Philip IV
Buddhism
36. Egyptian Civilation began
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Hinduism
Sharecroppers
37. Great advances in the field of metal making
CA state freshwater fish
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
Reason for Civil War
38. War fought between US and Great Britain over neutrality and impressment of US Sailors - US victory - resulted in National pride - self sufficiency - and foreign credibility
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
CA Indians prior to European contact
The Great Awakening
War of 1812
39. Both have executive - judicial and legislative branch
Central Valley Project (CVP)
Townshend Acts
Fall of rome
United States and CA governments similar
40. President Nixon established better realations with these countries
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Great Britain
Major Popluation Groups
Russia - China
41. Eastablished that the constitution grants to conress implied powers inherent in the nature of the Constitution as a blueprint for a practical functioning government - and the state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the
End of WWI
Comprised of Near East
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
France - Britain
42. Missouri Compromise of 1820 was designed to resolve conflict in this area
Slavery
Ten Percent Plan
Forty - niners
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
43. Leadership - territory
Civil war - South Power
Articles of Confederation
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Owens Valley Paiute
44. Federal Government response to the Great Depression - overwhelming unemployment and need for public works. Many dams and large sclae projects - Central Valley Project - Shasta Dam (second largest dam in the US - after Hoover dam - also WPA project)
Richmond
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
Delegated Powers
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
45. Placed limitations on the Crown
End of WWI
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
Constituion Did (four things)
Magna Carta
46. Redefined American Global Interests
Oil Diplomacy
Protect sovereignty of the states
Great Depression Began
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
47. Invention that launched the industrial age
California Constitution
Agriculture
John Adams
The Steam Engine
48. Nile River
Egypt
Intolerable Acts
Chumas
India
49. Gave 18 year olds the right to vote
Central Indian culture
Juan Cabrillo
Boston Tea Party
26th Amendment
50. Olmec - Mayan - Toltec - Aztec
Native Californian who became president
End of WWI
American civilizations in chronological order
Sharecroppers
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