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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. 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
Ten Percent Plan
The Jamestown Colony
Emergence of National Parties in US
2. Known for first explorers (1000 BC) - traders - colonizers - first alphabet - dominated Mediteranean commerce - exported glass and purple dye
Agriculture
Phoenicians
1990
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
3. (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
Intolerable Acts
The Annexation of Texas
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Tongva (Gabrielino)
4. First European explorer to reach coastal California (1542)
John Locke's assumption of natural laws contrasted
The French Indian War
Juan Cabrillo
Land Commission
5. Practiced primarily in India and very little in China
Hinduism
Middle Colonies
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Mercantilism
6. Mining - cattle - and grain. Farmers and ranchers settled the Great Plains
Order of Acts
Northwestern Indian Culture
Western Industrial Base
Forty - niners
7. 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
Code of Hammurabi
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
8. California's 'Ellis Island' entry point for many European immigrants to US
Vassal
Shasta
Reconstruction of the South
Angel Island
9. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Ten Percent Plan
Ponce de Leon
Products of the Industrial Revolution
10. 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
Shasta
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
John Locke's assumption of natural laws contrasted
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
11. Led by a headman or timiwal. Appointed by council and served for life. Primary counselor - arbritator. Diet of acorns - six differenct species of oaks and pinon nuts. Gathereed from eastern slopes of Sierra Nevada. Small seeds and berries were gather
Articles of Confederation Dates
Tubatulabl
Mycenaeans
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
12. Little Napoleon - suffered several defeats - replaced - put back in command - and replaced again
Bicarmeral
Northwest Ordinance
George McClellan
Articles of confederation designed to
13. 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
Referendum
15th Amendment
Billeting Act of 1765
John Locke's assumption of natural laws contrasted
14. Manmade lakes
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Babylonians
Taoism
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
15. Aerospace
Features of ancient India
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Caucus (political system)
Center region of US (minus texas)
16. Epics of Illiad and Odyssey come from
Indians
Greece
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
Antifederalists
17. Homestead Act (1862); Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Principle of Dec. of Independence
Aids to settlement of the West
1861 - 1865
Mercantilism
18. A revival of learning based on classical sources - development of highly realistic linear perspective in art - discarding of the Aristolean 'final cause' in favor of scientific method
Preamble
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Tubatulabl
The Great Depression
19. The equivilent of a knight in the feudal system
Great Britain
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
Egypt
Vassal
20. 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
Southern Indian Culture
Sierra Nevada
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
Puritan
21. The New Nation - Alexander Hamilton was part of this era
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
1787 - 1823
Californios
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
22. Economic and social units of life in early Middle Ages
Babylonians
Polytheistic
Louisiana Purchase
Manors
23. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Dust Bowl
Miwok
Mesopotamiia
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
24. Most lands along the eastern border of the state. Food and water scacre - tribes had to move frequently in search of food like rats and rabbits. Tribes include - Tubatulabal - and the Owens Valley Paiute.
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
New England Colonies
Egyptians
The Great Basin
25. Dissolved the government of all the Confederate States except Tennessee and divided the remaining Southern States into five districts
Military Reconstruction Acts
Beaver
No taxation without representation
Conquistadores
26. Vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts
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27. Best known as CA basketmakers - twined and coilded ware in many shapes. Otlined with brightly colored feathers - plumes - beads - and shells.
Pomo
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Caucus (political system)
3500 - 3000 BC
28. Political instability and use of mercenary armies undermined the security of the empire
Ignored by European Invaders
The code of chivalry in European Knights
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
Civil War - North Power
29. Church became the preserver of civilization in both political and religious life
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
Magna Carta
Gentleman's Agreement
Communism
30. Adding amendments to the CA constitution to protect workers rights - passage of initiative - referendum - and recall - establishing a railroad commision
300 Billion Dollars
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
Californios
Tan Dynasty
31. It ruined Gerald Ford's political future
Pardon of Nixon
France
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
32. Social rank on basis of wealth. Retained privledges passing fortunes to next generations. Salmon and acorn diet. Rituals like White Deerskins and Jumping Dances. Dance done to ward off disease and famin. Recite long narratives and display wealthy obj
18th Century
Hupa
Democratic - Republican Party
Cotton
33. Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - increase in international trade and commerce - end of the Greek city - state system as a major political setting
Radical Reconstruction Years
Paved Roads
Hellenistic age
Advances in transportation and communication
34. A brief attempt at the beginning of the Mexican - American War to establish an independent California republic
Aircraft industry/WWII
Reincarnation
Cherokee and Iroquois Art
Bear Flag Revolt
35. Chinese philosophical system that emphasizes living in balance with the natural world - everything has its place yin and yang
The Colorado River
Sumerians
Taoism
Articles of Confederation Dates
36. Bush raised taxes on these items in 1990 to decrease the decifit
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
End of WWI
3500 - 3000 BC
Mycenaeans
37. Economic philosophy espoused by Karl Marx that distributes wealth to the workers that produce it
WWI Began
Socialism
Mycenaeans
Copernicus
38. Initial control of Southwest of N. America and Florida
Spain
Sale of indulgences
Mesopotamiia
Reason for Civil War
39. Attempt to change base metals into gold
Agriculture
Middle Passage
Alchemy
Land Commission
40. An early colonial attempt at representative self - government (1619) - first legislative assembly of the colonies
The French Indian War
Tories
House of Burgesses
1776 - 1781
41. Leader of the movement towards Independence - very outspoken
Hinduism
Octopus
John Adams
Reconstruction of the South
42. Gave people the right to stand up to Government
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Code of Hammurabi
Boston Massacre
2nd & 3rd Amendment
43. Solved the problem of isolation in California 1969
Dust Bowl Regugees of 1930's
Transcontinental Railroad
George McClellan
Black Code Laws
44. Credited with first implementation of democracy into government (citizens held public meetings - pass law - choose officials) No slaves - women or foreigners
1846
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
Feudalism
Greeks
45. President Lincoln's first priority after the Civil War to reconcile the warring sides and rebuild areas affected by the war
The New deal Included
Reconstruction
China
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
46. An early society in which men hunted for meat and women gathered more readily available food
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
Slavery
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Plato
47. Used tar to waterproof their canoes
Chumash
Xia
Democratic - Republicans
Parliment Repealed the Act
48. Cluster of three to five small villages around a centraly village. Lands were held in common. Each tribe servered as part of a political organization. the Leader played a fairly minor role exept during time of war or talk of peace.
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
Maidu
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
49. A 1907 treaty with Japan that allowed wives to joing their husbands in the U.S. on the condition that the Japanese government deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States
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50. British colony founded by puritans seeking to create a new - pure church in the americas
Massachusetts
Military Reconstruction Acts
Articles of Confederation Dates
Vicksburg Battle