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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. AD 1200 - 1533
Northeastern Indian Culture
Sumerians
John Adams
Inca
2. Shipbuilding and Commerce
New England Colonies
Constituion Did (four things)
Cattle ranching
China
3. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
Japan
Atlanta Victory
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
4. The 1803 purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson that essentially doubled the United States territory
Intolerable Acts
Louisiana Purchase
Whig Party
Pilgrims
5. Influenced by Hinduism - underwent waves of invasion from Persia and Asia - divided into multiple regions
1450-1763
Reason for Civil War
Features of ancient India
Massachusettes Bay
6. American industry propspered when trade was restricted by the British during the war
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
Positive result of the war in 1812
Agriculture
7. A statute or amendment that has passed the state legislature - which is then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate - allows the California electorate to rescind legislatin that has already become law
Hinduism
Reconstruction
Center region of US (minus texas)
Referendum
8. President Nixon established better realations with these countries
Russia - China
Decline of the Roman empire
Conquistadores
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
9. Adding amendments to the CA constitution to protect workers rights - passage of initiative - referendum - and recall - establishing a railroad commision
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
10. First European explorer to reach coastal California (1542)
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Hellenistic age
Cherokee and Iroquois Art
Juan Cabrillo
11. That self - given right of seven states to the lower South to leave the Union is they so desired
Secession
Judicial Branch
Kush
Conquistadores
12. (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
Battle of Gettysburg
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
Mono Lake
Intolerable Acts
13. Manmade lakes
Babylonians
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
Northeastern Indian Culture
Weak
14. The idea that political authority belongs to the people
Popular Sovereignty
Reincarnation
House of Burgesses
Money - Econcomy
15. Earliest sophisticated culture of the Andean Highland civilization
Nullification
Socialism
Chavin
American Revolution Chronological Order
16. Communcation and Transportation
Chandragupta Maurya
Japan
War of 1812
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
17. Responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
California Constitution
Emergence of Universities
Aqueduct
18. A philosophy - along with election rules - that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended
Islam
Phoenicians
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Seperate but Equal
19. Aztecs are from this period in Mesoamerican History
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
Parliment Repealed the Act
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
Postclassic period (800 AD)
20. Union used Naval force most effectively to
Ten Percent Plan
Achumawi
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
Blockade Southern ports
21. 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
Mycenaeans
Indians
Greece
22. Franklin Roosevelt initiated The New Deal
1932 - 1938
The Gentleman's Agreement - 1907
The Qin Dynasty
Primary purpose of the Mission System
23. Attracted the largest number of Chinese immigrants to US after gold rush
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
Owens Valley Paiute
Associated withe end of antiquity
Monotheism
24. New methods of production (assembly line - mass production); inventions; Expanding markets at home and abroad; Development of steel - mining - electrical - petrolium - textile and food processing industries
Fostered Expansion of Industry
Founded as a result of religious persecution
Middle Passage
1989
25. Driving force of explorations of Americas
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
Northwestern Indian Culture
26. Created Judicial Review - ability to reivew a law for viloations
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
1837
Parliment Repealed the Act
The Draft
27. More experienced officer corps
Elastic Clause of the Constitution
Relocation Camp
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Confederate Advantage
28. A term used to describe the Central Pacifics Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce
Octopus
John Adams
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
Reconstruction of the South
29. Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - increase in international trade and commerce - end of the Greek city - state system as a major political setting
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
The Legal code of france
Protect sovereignty of the states
Hellenistic age
30. Federalist - Democratic - Whig - Republican
Black Code Laws
Buddhism
Daimyo
Emergence of National Parties in US
31. King - Baron - Bishop - Lord - Peasant
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Bear Flag Revolt
Products of the Industrial Revolution
32. To maintain self - sufficient agricultural economy that produced a food surplus
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
India
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
33. 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
United States and CA governments similar
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
Mojave Desert
34. 1848 - California - parts of the southwest were gained
Mexican American War
Achumawi
Amerindians
Order of Acts
35. Federal troops were withdrawn from the South - ending Reconstruction
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Mercantilism
Referendum
Andrew Jackson
36. Most common religion of Arabian civilization
The French Indian War
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Islam
Positive result of the war in 1812
37. Bush Supreme Court appointments
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Watergate
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
38. Yellow river
Mexican American War
Shogun
Chavin
China
39. (1765) The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies - it required that all newspapers - pamphlets - legal documents - commercial bills - advertisements - and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The act was denounced in the
Transcontinental Railroad
Stamp Act
Concurrent Powers
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
40. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Union Strategy
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
1979 - 1981
41. Stamp Act - Townshend Act - Boston Massacre - Tea Act - Boston Tea Party - Intolerable Acts - British March on Concord and Lexington
The Qin Dynasty
Antietam
Decline of the Roman empire
American Revolution Chronological Order
42. 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
Battle of Gettysburg
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Western Industrial Base
43. Greatest contribution from ancient Greece to Western Civilization
Weak
Slavery
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Democracy
44. Basis of government by the consent of the governed
Center region of US (minus texas)
The Great Depression
The Mayflower Compact
Maya
45. To provide a greater voice in determining national politics
Founded as a result of religious persecution
Ignored by European Invaders
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
Townshend Acts
46. Campaign to encourage women to sek work in wartime industrial plants
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47. Texas annexed to the United States
1837
No taxation without representation
Pueblos
Townshend Act
48. Forbade import of rum - duty on molasses - wines - silks - coffee and number of luxury items
Native Californian who became president
Articles of confederation designed to
Sugar Act of 1764
Money - Econcomy
49. Hammurabi - The first written code of law
Spanish American War
Reason for Civil War
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
Babylonians
50. Natural lake that has been threatened by the water needs of L.A.
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
Thomas Jefferson
Mesopotamiia
Mono Lake