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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab

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1. Admistration supported massive build up of the defense program






2. 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






3. Greatest contribution from ancient Greece to Western Civilization






4. A branch of the system of checks and balances that interprets Congressional laws






5. 1781 - 1789






6. Deer in Noorthern CA - plentfiu. venison and deerskin for clothing. Shamans played a key role - had healing ability from tamakomi - 'medicine or power. Half of shamans were women.






7. Voyage of exploration commanded by John Cabot - Jacques Cartier - and Henry Hudson






8. Growing proportion of Latinos in CA population






9. The GDP dropped. Unemployment increased. The 'Big Three' automakers posted record losses. Bankruptcies increased. The Fed lowered interest rates in an attempt to stimulate the economy






10. (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






11. Small rainfall - vegetation scarce - bands were migratory - shifting from place to place in search of water and food. Men hunted - women gathered seeds - nuts and fruits. Distinctive form of acgricutlre based on communal labor. Created ditches and da






12. Ideals of social contract borrowed heavily from John Locke






13. A mechanism fo rending an elected official's tenure before its scheduled completion






14. Spanish exploreres that sought the riches of Central and South America - establishing colonies along the way






15. Individual state rights - slavery - cotton - and the election of Abraham Lincoln as president






16. Invention that launched the industrial age






17. Central Valley and the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada






18. Law of supply and demand






19. Egyptian Civilation began






20. 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.






21. The colonists strongest weapon against the unpopular British Tax measures






22. Reaction of the British Government to the Boston Tea Party






23. Economic philosophy espoused by Karl Marx that distributes wealth to the workers that produce it






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






25. Ancient Civiliation that Confucianism originated






26. Impeached for opposing Radical Reconstruction






27. Massive federal budget cuts - welfare reduced - personal and corporate taxes reduced - tax plan was characterized as 'trickle - down' economics






28. Supplemented their hunting with agrictulre. Grew corn - beans and pumpkins in fertile flood plains. Traded with many tribes - tribes include (Quechan (Yuma) Halchidhoma - Mohave.






29. To sail completely around the earth






30. AD 250 - 900






31. The branch of the system of checks and balances that makes Congressional laws






32. The trade - union movement - government protection of management through the use of court injunctions - the growth of suburbs - the dehumanizing aspects of technological innovations






33. Common characteristic that linked missions - presidios - and pueblos






34. An early society in which men hunted for meat and women gathered more readily available food






35. Federal system which divided fedeal and state power - seperation of powers - and checks and balances to limit power of central government - legislative - executive and judicial branch created to divide power - bill of rights added to protect the peop






36. ...his troops were trapped by Grant's Army






37. Wrote the Federalist Papers






38. (1770) British troops fire on crowd of Bostonians






39. Feather art in the form of a war bonnet






40. Southern whites who allied with the radicals






41. Senators to be directly elected by the people






42. 1837 Added potential slave territory to the United States






43. Large quanitites of coal and iron - rapid increase in middle class - large supply of cheap labor






44. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation






45. The French threatened not only the British Empire - but the American colonists for holding the Mississippi Valley - Franch could...






46. 1964 - It attempted to continue New Deal type programs. Aims were ending poverty - reducing pollution - regenerating urban life - and pursuing Civil Rights legislation

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47. Enviornmentally destructive mining process in the Gold Rush and wound down in 1853






48. Church became the preserver of civilization in both political and religious life






49. General who led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War






50. Settled by gentleman adventurers - landless and poor men who wanted to improve finances - in the original settlement - no women - first slaves were brought here from Africa - tobacco was first cultivated as a moneymaking crop by this settlement - fir







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