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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab

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1. Framers who were provided some land - housing and supplies by white landowners in return for giving landowners a portion of their crops






2. Tobacco - cotton and slavery






3. Native white southerners who had opposed secession and who had cooperated with the Republicans during reconstruction






4. 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






5. The power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to congress and trumps the power of the state






6. Galileo






7. To win favors of the gods - who according to their beleifs - governed the life of mankind and the cycles of nature






8. Campaign to encourage women to sek work in wartime industrial plants


9. CA land boom (1880's) - gold rush (1850) - the great depression (1930's)






10. A division of government powers between a strong central government and the state governments






11. Free market capitalism






12. The New York City Riots were protest against






13. More experienced officer corps






14. A term used to describe the Central Pacifics Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce






15. Homestead Act (1862); Transcontinental Railroad (1869)






16. Vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts


17. AD 1200 - 1533






18. In 1763 a royal proclomation reserved all Western territory between Alleghencies - the Florida's and the Mississippi - and Quebec to be used by the






19. In Feudal Japan - the equivalent of a medieval Eupopean king






20. Defined the Northwest Territory and the way the US would be set up






21. Catholic churches influenced development in medieval Europe






22. Allows congress to make laws on issues not mentioned in the Constitution






23. Group that historically experienced the most discrimination (California Constitution statutes)






24. British reaction to the Boston Tea Party - including more rigid restrictions on colonial town meetins and other harsh penalties






25. Lee surrendered to Grant






26. Europes Renaissance - Age of Discovery - Copernican Revolution






27. Prior to Jim Crow Laws - prior to reconstruction






28. Towns based around California's missions and presidios - built around a church and a town square






29. Enlightenment concepts such as natural law and self - determination - dissolving allegiances to the British crown - clear listing of the colonies - reasons for rebellion






30. 1868 - 1876






31. Most closely associated with the development of a theocracy in America






32. The Roman Empire






33. Success of the colony sparked a huge migration to the New World from England - signed an agreement among themselves they would have a government based on the church's teachings - came to America seeking freedom from religous persecution






34. Some of most popular tribes in CA - villags along the souther coast - sustained by sea life - as many as two thousand redisents each. Tribes are Kumeyaay (Diegueno) - Cahuilla - Tongva - (Gabrielino) and Chumash






35. Presidential plan emphasized tolerance for the defeated South (congress won with radical plan)






36. 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)


37. Quail






38. Stamp Act - Townshend Act - Boston Massacre - Tea Act - Boston Tea Party - Intolerable Acts - British March on Concord and Lexington






39. Europeans and Africans






40. 1781 - 1789






41. Aerospace






42. Iranian Hostage Situation Years






43. Tigres - Euphrates Valley - Fertile Crescent - and Nile Vallyez






44. Abundant natural resources - access to Great Lakes and ports of foreign shipments - availability of cheap labor






45. Residents of the rancho system in California just before the Mexican - American War - mainly comprised of Mexican citizen who idetified more as Californios than Mesicans






46. (1773) A group of colonists - led by Samuel Adams - Paul Revere - and others - disguised themselves as Native Americans - boarded English ships on the night of Dec. 16 - 1773 - and threw the tea into the harbor






47. Eastern European Communism collapsed - Hussein invaded Kuwait






48. Created Great Wall of China - use of currency - weight and measure standardized - tomb of terra - cotta army






49. Strong manufacturing base






50. A proclamation made by President Lincoln in1863 freeing all slaves in regions still fighting against the Union