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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Basis of government by the consent of the governed
The Mayflower Compact
26th Amendment
Sharecroppers
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
2. Enacted the 'malice' standard allowed free reporting
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
The Missouri Compromise
Federalism
3. President Lincoln realized the war would be long and hard
18th Century
Massachusetts
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
First Battle of Bull Run
4. Golden Poppy
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
CA state flower
Babylonians
1932 - 1938
5. 1820 Limited the spread of slavery
Union Strategy
Polytheistic
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
The Missouri Compromise
6. State courts are required by the 6th and 14th amendments - right to speedy process - counsel
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Japan
Thomas Jefferson
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
7. Wilsons Fourteen Points - Failure of congress to ratify
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
End of WWI
CA state freshwater fish
1989
8. Reagan's appointments to the Supreme Court
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9. The concept of religious freedom
Money - Econcomy
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
10. Voyage of exploration commanded by John Cabot - Jacques Cartier - and Henry Hudson
Discover westward route to Asia
The New deal Included
Appomatix Courthouse
Thomas Paine
11. Power to veto specific sections of a spending bill
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
CA Indians prior to European contact
Middle Colonies
Rancheros
12. Aztecs are from this period in Mesoamerican History
Connected by El Camino Real
17th Amendment
1846
Postclassic period (800 AD)
13. Best known as CA basketmakers - twined and coilded ware in many shapes. Otlined with brightly colored feathers - plumes - beads - and shells.
Pomo
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Benjamin Franklin
14. Koran
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Egypt
Religious book of Islam
Octopus
15. The start and end of the Age of Discovery
1450-1763
Mexican American War
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
16. No taxation without representation
Stamp Act
Sumerians
Kush
Slavery
17. To link the demands of women to the greivance of the Revolutionary generation
First Battle of Bull Run
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
California Constitution
18. Admistration supported massive build up of the defense program
Ronald Reagan
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
CA state tree
No founded as a result of religious persecution
19. (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
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Major Popluation Groups
Boston Tea Party
Cahuilla
20. George Mason in objections to the constituion represented which group
Maidu
Democratic - Republicans
Intolerable Acts
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
21. Homestead Act (1862); Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Gettysburg
Babylonians
Aids to settlement of the West
Ferdinand Magellan
22. A term used to describe the Central Pacifics Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce
Octopus
Associated withe end of antiquity
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Articles of Confederation
23. Framers who were provided some land - housing and supplies by white landowners in return for giving landowners a portion of their crops
Mojave Desert
Mercantilism
Sharecroppers
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
24. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
French Indian War Victory
Aqueduct
New Frontier Pledge
25. Period of European hisotry that produced advances in science that revolutionalized of Earths's place wtihin the universe
Legislative Branch
Reconstruction of the South
Amendment to the Constituion Requires
Renaissance
26. An informal meeting of party leaders who decide which candidates they will support
Initiative
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Atsugewi
Caucus (political system)
27. Great advances in the field of metal making
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
Caucus (political system)
Renaissance
Missouri Compromise
28. Victory gave Lincoln the right moment to make the Emancipation Procolomation
18th Century
Whig Party
The Steam Engine
Antietam
29. Approved racial segregation - seperate but equal
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
Federalism practiced in early Republic
30. Redwood
Tongva (Gabrielino)
Sugar Act of 1764
CA state tree
CA state bird
31. An economic system in which workers control the means of production and share in the profits for their labors
Comprised of Near East
Socialism
Laissez - Faire
Ulysses S. Grant
32. Desolate areas - scare food - hunting small game and seeds and roots. Thinly settled - tribues include Achumawi and Atsugewi.
Tea Act
Northeastern Indian Culture
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
1776 - 1781
33. Sherman Anti - Trust Act (1890) - Clayton Anti - Trust Act (1914). The National Labor Relations Act (1935) - collective bargaining rights for employees.
Reconstruction of the South
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
Tan Dynasty
Paved Roads
34. Criminal supsects must be informed of their miranda rights
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
Connected by El Camino Real
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
Ponce de Leon
35. The rise of the common man. War against the bank and tariff were key issues for the new democratic party; Jackson initiated the spoils system (political enemies are replaced by political friends); Jackson pursued nationalistic policies
Federalism
Delegated Powers
Jacksonian Democracy
Emancipation Proclamation
36. A philosophy - along with election rules - that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended
17th Amendment
Seperate but Equal
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Aqueduct
37. Capitalism
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
Intolerable Acts
Northwest Ordinance
38. (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
Hydraulic Mining
War of 1812
Mercantilism
Stamp Act
39. Communcation and Transportation
Aqueduct
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Connected by El Camino Real
1837
40. Greatest contribution from ancient Greece to Western Civilization
Economics
Communism
Democracy
Spain
41. To win favors of the gods - who according to their beleifs - governed the life of mankind and the cycles of nature
Northwestern Indian Culture
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
Angel Island
42. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
Caucus (political system)
43. Aerospace
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Mexican American War
Mono Lake
Atlanta Victory
44. 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
Bear Flag Revolt
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
WWI Began
45. The worship of only one god
Townshend Acts
Andrew Jackson
Middle Passage
Monotheism
46. Outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory
Xia
Socialism
Northwest Ordinance
Appomatix Courthouse
47. President Lincoln's first priority after the Civil War to reconcile the warring sides and rebuild areas affected by the war
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
No taxation without representation
Reconstruction
1787 - 1823
48. Industry major turning point in California
Aircraft industry/WWII
Check and Balances
Circumnavigate
Chinese
49. River valley villages - families owned their hunting and fishing ground - tobacco plots and oak trees. Real estate passed on through the males. Money was clamshell disks and dentalia.
Shasta
Watergate
Greeks
The Mayflower Compact
50. Most closely associated with the development of a theocracy in America
Ronald Reagan
Recall
Middle Passage
Puritan