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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. 1) Energy Crisis 2) Israel and Egypt signed historic peace treaty - but key problems were left unsolved. 3) Need for alternate sources of energy 4) Detente with Russia suffered serious setbacks 5) Inflation
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2. Quail
Postclassic period (800 AD)
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
CA state bird
3. A proclamation made by President Lincoln in1863 freeing all slaves in regions still fighting against the Union
Manifest Destiny
California Geographic Features
Features of ancient India
Emancipation Proclamation
4. Contributed to the growth of slavery
Connected by El Camino Real
Cotton
Maya
Benjamin Franklin
5. Oregon annexed to the United States
Check their Westward Expansion
Islam
1846
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
6. The practice of state regulation and control of an economy
Mercantilism
Pardon of Nixon
1979
Judicial Branch
7. Rabbits and other small game - bows and arrows or nets and snares. Accorns - mequite pods - pinon nuts - and other fruit of cacti. Planeted crops when water sufficient - pottery by coiling narrow ropes of clay.
Aztec
Cahuilla
1990
Amerindians
8. A division of government powers between a strong central government and the state governments
The Mayflower Compact
Federalism
House of Burgesses
Reincarnation
9. Nickname for the influx of people that arrived in California - staring in 1849 - in search of gold
Forty - niners
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
1776 - 1781
The Missouri Compromise
10. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Atlanta Victory
Mojave Desert
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
11. General who led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War
Atsugewi
Reserved Powers
United States and CA governments similar
Ulysses S. Grant
12. Imperial Valley water flow from Colorado River - tried to increase water flow and the flood created the
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Gettysburg
Salton sea
Law of Supply and Demand
13. Earliest form of Capitalism
Caucus (political system)
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Mercantilism
Discover westward route to Asia
14. Substantial increase in Asian population
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Stamp Act
Magna Carta
Articles of confederation designed to
15. States that the people have the power to establish and change rules
Spanish American War
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Preamble
Chumash
16. An 1845 phrase encapsulating the American version of the Western Expansion
British Army marches on Concord and Lexington
Manifest Destiny
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
1990
17. Common reason given for the development of Feudalism
Reserved Powers
Factors that led to American Revolution
Babylonians
Fall of rome
18. The need for a strong central government led to the framing of the constituion in what year
Achumawi
1789
Sun
Monotheism
19. Proposed the beginning of Europe's Scientific Revolution - that Earth revolved around the sun
Serf
Copernicus
Geographical factors that accounted for emergence of Byzantium as a powerful trading empire
Yurok Indians
20. Refers to powers shared by the national government and state governments
2nd & 3rd Amendment
End of WWI
Virginia
Concurrent Powers
21. Lee surrendered to Grant
Great Britain
Order of Acts
Appomatix Courthouse
Phoenicians
22. Animal that became synonymous with the fur trade in the first half of the 19th century
Forty - niners
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Vassal
Beaver
23. The American Revolution was fought to obtain independence
1776 - 1781
Silicon Valley
Whig Party
No taxation without representation
24. American Indians agriculture and medical wisdonm
Ignored by European Invaders
California Constitution
Northwestern Indian Culture
Maya Indians
25. 16th Century - Benefited most from slavery
The Colorado River
Cattle ranching
The French Alliance
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
26. Leadership - territory
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
Decline of the Roman empire
Sumerians
Civil war - South Power
27. Egyptian Civilation began
Massachusetts
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Aqueduct
Sumerians
28. Villages on lagoons or mouth streams and lower Klamath River. Accumulated wealth - sets of dance regalia and ceremonial gatherings. Distinctive clothing - abundant natural resources - permanent villages. Harvested fish - deer - elk - acorns. Used woo
The Jamestown Colony
Postclassic period (800 AD)
Yurok Indians
Great Depression Began
29. Law of supply and demand
Economics
26th Amendment
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
30. Chinese philosophical system that emphasizes living in balance with the natural world - everything has its place yin and yang
Mono Lake
Taoism
The Draft
Pardon of Nixon
31. The 1803 purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson that essentially doubled the United States territory
Louisiana Purchase
Capitalism
President Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
32. A division of society based on differences of wealth - inherited rank or privledge - profession - or occupation - not allowed to move from one caste to another
Caste
1979
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Popular Sovereignty
33. Battle that followed the second Bull Run
Principle of Dec. of Independence
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Antietam Battle
Gentleman's Agreement
34. 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
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Reganomics
Barter
Boycotting Britsh Goods
35. Earliest sophisticated culture of the Andean Highland civilization
Chavin
Sierra Nevada
India
The Mexican War
36. Best known as CA basketmakers - twined and coilded ware in many shapes. Otlined with brightly colored feathers - plumes - beads - and shells.
Ferdinand Magellan
Reconstruction of the South
Cotton
Pomo
37. Hydraulic mining
The Plymouth Colony
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Tan Dynasty
Northeastern Indian Culture
38. 1911 new California State Legislation inspired by the national progressive movement
Boston Massacre
Popular Sovereignty
Labor Board vs J&L Steel Corporations - 1937
Atlanta Victory
39. 1781 - This defeat brought victory to the colonies
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
1990
Hellenistic age
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
40. Required colonies to provide quarters and supplies for Royal troops
300 Billion Dollars
Billeting Act of 1765
1989
Mercantilism
41. Political party that wanted close ties with England
Great Depression Began
1787 - 1823
Tories
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
42. Without evidence of disloyalty it demonstrated that constitutional safeguards could be rendered ineffective in wartime
Intolerable Acts
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
House of Burgesses
Central Indian culture
43. Caused the Protestant Reformation
Blockade Southern ports
Shasta
CA state flower
Sale of indulgences
44. The branch of the system of checks and balances that makes Congressional laws
Xia
300 Billion Dollars
End of Reconstruction
Legislative Branch
45. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
Achumawi
New Frontier Pledge
Emergence of Universities
46. Olmec - Mayan - Toltec - Aztec
The Mexican War
Democratic - Republican Party
American civilizations in chronological order
Rancho System
47. A philosophy - along with election rules - that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended
Seperate but Equal
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Democratic - Republican Party
Emergence of Universities
48. Iranian Hostage Situation Years
Factors that led to American Revolution
Amendment to the Constituion Requires
1979 - 1981
Chinese
49. Little Napoleon - suffered several defeats - replaced - put back in command - and replaced again
George McClellan
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
CA state flower
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
50. 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
17th Amendment
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Feudalism
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819