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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Both a bureaucratically administered state
Indians
Egypt and Mesopatamia
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Louisiana Purchase
2. The practice of state regulation and control of an economy
Referendum
Pomo
Founded as a result of religious persecution
Mercantilism
3. Aerospace
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Ronald Reagan
Stamp Act
Order of Acts
4. Interment camps that held people of Japanese descent durin World War II
China
Relocation Camp
1979 - 1981
Maya Indians
5. Water distribution system that provides water to the Imperial Valley
Reconstruction of the South
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Watergate
The Colorado River
6. Lack of resistance to European disease disseminated the populations
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
1979
Intolerable Acts
Andrew Jackson
7. 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
War of 1812
Mexican American War
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
Laissez - Faire
8. 12 Year term for Supreme Court justices - greater details - greater degree of voter control - in both Houses - representation is based on districts that are determined by size of population - senators serve four year terms
House of Burgesses
Southern Colonies
California Constitution
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
9. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Northeastern Indian Culture
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Massachusetts
British Army marches on Concord and Lexington
10. One of the first two political parties in the United States - led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; opposed the Federalist party and was strongly in favor of individual rights
Gentleman's Agreement
Democratic - Republican Party
California Constitution
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
11. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Emergence of National Parties in US
Kush
Billeting Act of 1765
Ponce de Leon
12. A 'sacred expedition' in which twenty - one Spanish Catholic missions were established - spaced to be a single days travel apart on El Camino Real (the Royal Road)
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13. Largest desert in Calfornia
Polytheistic
Constituion Did (four things)
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Mojave Desert
14. Iranian Hostage Situation Years
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
1979 - 1981
Sierra Nevada
15. An early colonial attempt at representative self - government (1619) - first legislative assembly of the colonies
Rancheros
House of Burgesses
The Great Awakening
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
16. The colonist gained a sense of independence because they challenged church beliefs - they felt unified because of a common religion - ties between church and state weakened - a greater sense of equality because preachers stressed equality of all
Stamp Act
The Great Awakening
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
17. Conflicting interest of small vs large states
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Fief
Paved Roads
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
18. The branch of the system of checks and balances that makes Congressional laws
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
Legislative Branch
19. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
The Plymouth Colony
Missouri Compromise
Spain
New Frontier Pledge
20. Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - increase in international trade and commerce - end of the Greek city - state system as a major political setting
1861 - 1865
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Sumerians
Hellenistic age
21. Religions established in China as a result of the cross - cultural contact associated with the Silk Road
Polytheistic
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
Intolerable Acts
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
22. Political party that wanted close ties with England
The Mayflower Compact
Yokuts
Tories
Fief
23. State courts are required by the 6th and 14th amendments - right to speedy process - counsel
Fostered Expansion of Industry
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
End of Reconstruction
Manifest Destiny
24. Dissolved the government of all the Confederate States except Tennessee and divided the remaining Southern States into five districts
The Great Depression
Military Reconstruction Acts
Louisiana Purchase
The Great Basin
25. A man - made channel constructed to convey water from one location to another
Chickamauga
Thomas Paine
Aqueduct
Boston Massacre
26. A branch of the system of checks and balances that sees that the country's laws are executed
Comprised of Near East
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Executive Branch
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
27. Olmec - Mayan - Toltec - Aztec
Pomo
Daniel Shays
Buddhism
American civilizations in chronological order
28. California's 'Ellis Island' entry point for many European immigrants to US
Chumas
Principle of Dec. of Independence
Angel Island
Sumerians
29. Enacted the 'malice' standard allowed free reporting
Sale of indulgences
Weak
Boston Tea Party
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
30. Hydraulic mining
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Atsugewi
Tongva (Gabrielino)
1990
31. Texas annexed to the United States
Socialism
Fostered Expansion of Industry
Mexican American War
1837
32. Capitalism
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
The Plymouth Colony
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
Chumash
33. Sherman Anti - Trust Act (1890) - Clayton Anti - Trust Act (1914). The National Labor Relations Act (1935) - collective bargaining rights for employees.
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
Taoism
Socialism
34. CA had greatest concentration of Indians in N. America
Influenced by christianity
Primary purpose of the Mission System
CA Indians prior to European contact
Silicon Valley
35. Influence of ancient Rome on later development of European civilization
The Legal code of france
The Draft
Gentleman's Agreement
Referendum
36. First written language
Phoenicians
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Sumerians
Pueblos
37. WPA Central Valley Project irrigated large portions of the central valley at expense of wetlands to the north - US government response to which event
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
Mojave Desert
The Great Depression
Referendum
38. 'We hold these truths to be self - evident; that all men and women are created equal.....'
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
Taoism
France
39. 1863 - This battle ended the souths chance of foreign recognition
France
California's Mission System
Battle of Gettysburg
Monotheism
40. A series of Islands
Mono Lake
Japan
Reganomics
Atsugewi
41. The basic economic principle stating that is suppply is greater than demand - the value of the product is lower - if demand is greater than supply - the value is higher
Mesopotamiia
Justinian Code
Law of Supply and Demand
1990
42. The Homestead Act of 1862 led to a displacement of this group
Secession
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Amerindians
Aztec
43. States that the people have the power to establish and change rules
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Union Advantage
End of Reconstruction
Preamble
44. Farming and Commerce
Russia - China
Middle Colonies
Mesopotamiia
Executive Branch
45. National Government did not have the power to regulate foreign trade - had no court system - no independent taxing power - could not enforce national laws
House of Burgesses
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Puritan
Western Industrial Base
46. The equivilent of a knight in the feudal system
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
Presidio
Vassal
The Plymouth Colony
47. China's first dynasty
1846
Xia
Vicksburg Battle
Fluid social structure
48. First European explorer to reach coastal California (1542)
Juan Cabrillo
CA state bird
Angel Island
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
49. Earliest form of Capitalism
Mercantilism
Juan Cabrillo
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
The Legal code of france
50. Egyptian Civilation began
Great Awakening
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
The Colorado River
Chickamauga