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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. The first known written legal code - developed in ancient Babylong - predated the justinian Code by about 2000 years
Gentleman's Agreement
Code of Hammurabi
Tongva (Gabrielino)
French Indian War Victory
2. 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
Rancheros
1789
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Nullification
3. One of China's greatest dynasties
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Referendum
Tan Dynasty
New Frontier Pledge
4. Bush Supreme Court appointments
Economics
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Manors
Atlanta Victory
5. Forbade import of rum - duty on molasses - wines - silks - coffee and number of luxury items
Vasco da Gama
Magna Carta
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
Sugar Act of 1764
6. WPA Central Valley Project irrigated large portions of the central valley at expense of wetlands to the north - US government response to which event
The Great Depression
Barter
Polytheistic
Recall
7. Animal that became synonymous with the fur trade in the first half of the 19th century
Beaver
Tongva (Gabrielino)
1846
Kush
8. Invention that launched the industrial age
French Indian War Victory
The Steam Engine
Puritan
Aircraft industry/WWII
9. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Ponce de Leon
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
Federalism practiced in early Republic
Francisco de Coronado
10. That self - given right of seven states to the lower South to leave the Union is they so desired
Secession
New England Colonies
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
CA state freshwater fish
11. Egyptian Civilation began
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Three - Fifths Compromise
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
Angel Island
12. Suprmeme court outlawed racial segragation - overrulled seperate but equal.
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Socialism
The Missouri Compromise
13. One of most popular in CA - from Pacific Coast to Sierra nevada. Earth covered homes - in Sierra Nevada houses were three or four layers of bark. Homes near coast were interlocking poles of willow or driftwood. Bunchess of grass or reeds tied in rows
Emancipation Proclamation
Miwok
Constantine
Southern Colonies
14. Created the first unified state in Inida (Indian) history
Positive result of the war in 1812
John Adams
Chandragupta Maurya
The counter - Reformation
15. The idea that political authority belongs to the people
Northwest Ordinance
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
Popular Sovereignty
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
16. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Whig Party
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Justinian Code
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
17. To provide a greater voice in determining national politics
Puritan
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
Egyptians
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
18. Texas annexed to the United States
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Influenced by christianity
Tongva (Gabrielino)
1837
19. An early society in which men hunted for meat and women gathered more readily available food
Mexican American War
Cahuilla
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
20. Defined the Northwest Territory and the way the US would be set up
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Reincarnation
Communism
Northwest Ordinance
21. Strong manufacturing base
Recall
Center region of US (minus texas)
Reason for Civil War
Union Advantage
22. The Savings and Loan bankruptcies resulted in massive federal intervention to cover
Beaver
300 Billion Dollars
Check and Balances
Appomatix Courthouse
23. ...his troops were trapped by Grant's Army
Chinese Confucian Morality
Circumnavigate
Preamble
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
24. River Valleys where there was an abudance of fertile soil and fresh water
1990
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
1787 - 1823
Pomo
25. An economic system in which the state controls the means of production and distributes the profits
Communism
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
26. Land held by lorders under the feudal system
Fief
Pilgrims
Achumawi
Octopus
27. Guaranteed black americans the righ to vote
17th Amendment
California Constitution
15th Amendment
Central Valley Project (CVP)
28. The American Revolution was fought to obtain independence
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Mercantilism
1776 - 1781
Vasco da Gama
29. Scope and authority of Supreme Court - The Era of good feelings (political success of the Republican party) - The Monroe Doctrine - development of a new American culture
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
1837
Northwest Ordinance
30. Colonial Armies were underequipped - widespread opposition to fixed military terms
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
Louisiana Purchase
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Californios
31. Caused a wave of immigration into California in the 1930's
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
Dust Bowl
Ronald Reagan
Law of Supply and Demand
32. Great advances in the field of metal making
The Rise of the New West created...
The Great Awakening
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
33. Three fourths of white population was middle class - more social equality than in England - hired farmhands and indentured servants were in lower class - lawyers and merchants were upper class.
Fostered Expansion of Industry
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
18th Century
34. Koran
Popular Sovereignty
Pilgrims
Puritan
Religious book of Islam
35. Indus River played a central part in this civilizations history
The Mexican War
India
Spain
Stamp Act
36. Created Great Wall of China - use of currency - weight and measure standardized - tomb of terra - cotta army
First Battle of Bull Run
The Qin Dynasty
Barter
Tories
37. Tigres - Euphrates Valley - Fertile Crescent - and Nile Vallyez
Comprised of Near East
CA state flower
The Gentleman's Agreement - 1907
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
38. Yellow river
1979
Angel Island
China
Bushido
39. Washington D.C. shares this complaint
Dust Bowl
Tea Act
1450-1763
No taxation without representation
40. Stamp - Declatory - Townshend - Boston Massacre
Order of Acts
Shasta
Factors that led to American Revolution
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
41. Used tar to waterproof their canoes
Benjamin Franklin
Maya
Chumash
Communism
42. Emphasizes mindfulness of an orderly society
Laissez - Faire
Aircraft industry/WWII
Buddhism
Hamilton's Financial Plan Parties
43. Deer in Noorthern CA - plentfiu. venison and deerskin for clothing. Shamans played a key role - had healing ability from tamakomi - 'medicine or power. Half of shamans were women.
Achumawi
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
17th Amendment
Chumas
44. 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.
Yokuts
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
Achumawi
Owens Valley Paiute
45. Hinduism strongly influenced ancient indian civilation through
Relations among social groups
Maidu
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
1979 - 1981
46. The need for a strong central government led to the framing of the constituion in what year
Principle of Dec. of Independence
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
1789
The French Indian War
47. California 1821 - 1846 dominant institutions were
Rancheros
Constantine
George McClellan
Three original state constitutions required
48. 1325 AD - 1521 AD
Code of Hammurabi
Diversity of Native Americans
Aztec
Tories
49. Turning point of the war
Louisiana Purchase
Pardon of Nixon
The Great Depression
Battle of Gettysburg
50. Northern and Western Europe
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
CA state tree
Three original state constitutions required
Hydraulic Mining
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