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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. California's two major mountain ranges are the Coast Ranges and...
The Great Basin
1991 - 1992
President Johnson
Sierra Nevada
2. Communcation and Transportation
Central Indian culture
Labor Board vs J&L Steel Corporations - 1937
Associated withe end of antiquity
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
3. In 1829 inaugural address - he set a policy to relocate Eastern Indians
Indians
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Influenced by christianity
Andrew Jackson
4. The first known written legal code - developed in ancient Babylong - predated the justinian Code by about 2000 years
Code of Hammurabi
Order of Acts
Juan Cabrillo
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
5. States that the people have the power to establish and change rules
Pardon of Nixon
Preamble
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Battle of Gettysburg
6. General who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Middle Passage
Ten Percent Plan
Tan Dynasty
7. General who led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Boycotting Britsh Goods
CA state flower
Ulysses S. Grant
8. 1863 - This battle ended the souths chance of foreign recognition
Bushido
Battle of Gettysburg
Louisiana Purchase
Yokuts
9. Influenced by Hinduism - underwent waves of invasion from Persia and Asia - divided into multiple regions
Articles of confederation designed to
Features of ancient India
Factors that led to American Revolution
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
10. Forced quartering of British soldiers - excessive tarriffs - Intolerable acts
Factors that led to American Revolution
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Economics
11. Created an oil embargo
Central Valley Project (CVP)
CA state tree
Japan
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
12. Basis of government by the consent of the governed
Confederate Advantage
Shogun
The Mayflower Compact
Founded as a result of religious persecution
13. Massive federal budget cuts - welfare reduced - personal and corporate taxes reduced - tax plan was characterized as 'trickle - down' economics
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Cattle ranching
Polytheistic
Reganomics
14. Noriega was removed from Panama through the use of U.S. force in
Presidio
CA state tree
1989
Sumerians
15. 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
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
The Great Basin
1990
Constituion Did (four things)
16. President Lincoln realized the war would be long and hard
First Battle of Bull Run
Octopus
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
17. 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.
Radical Reconstruction Years
Achumawi
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
Intolerable Acts
18. Emphasizes mindfulness of an orderly society
Three original state constitutions required
Californios
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Buddhism
19. Koran
First Battle of Bull Run
Religious book of Islam
Stamp Act
Chickamauga
20. Sounded the Death knell of feudalism
3500 - 3000 BC
Money - Econcomy
Kumeyaay
Hellenistic age
21. Founding of the Society of Jesus - revival of the inquisition - estblishment of the Index of Prohibited Book - Adherence to the Council of Trent
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Shogun
The counter - Reformation
Rancheros
22. Development of new weaving and ironworking techniques - vast expansion and improvement in the roads and waterways - greatly increased prosperity and political power for middle class
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Laissez - Faire
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
Reconstruction
23. Soviet Union was desolved in
Owens Valley Paiute
Caucus (political system)
Feudalism
1991
24. National Govt paid back state - national - and foreign debts to demonstrate credibility; National Govt encouraged American Business expansion by passing excise tax and a tariff; National Government raised revenue by a tax on domestic whiskey
25. Three fourths of white population was middle class - more social equality than in England - hired farmhands and indentured servants were in lower class - lawyers and merchants were upper class.
18th Century
Indians
The Steam Engine
Andrew Jackson
26. The American Revolution was fought to obtain independence
Robert E. Lee
1776 - 1781
300 Billion Dollars
Atsugewi
27. Solved the problem of isolation in California 1969
Egypt and Mesopatamia
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Chavin
Transcontinental Railroad
28. Franklin Roosevelt initiated The New Deal
CA state bird
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
CA state freshwater fish
1932 - 1938
29. Gain permanent access to the Mediterranean Sea
30. Led an armed uprising of 1 -200 farmers
Daniel Shays
Cattle ranching
Bowl and Basket Weaving
WWI Began
31. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamiia
Hinduism
Fief
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
32. 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
1990
Discover westward route to Asia
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
33. They replaced the Japanese as low- paid agricultural workers
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Tan Dynasty
Rancheros
Native Californian who became president
34. A polytheistic society located in Central America that made great advances in science and mathematics - but collapsed due to unknown causes
John Locke's assumption of natural laws contrasted
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
Ferdinand Magellan
Maya Indians
35. Refers to powers shared by the national government and state governments
Parliment Repealed the Act
Gettysburg
Concurrent Powers
Geographical factors that accounted for emergence of Byzantium as a powerful trading empire
36. Lee surrendered to Grant
Postclassic period (800 AD)
Appomatix Courthouse
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Buddhism
37. Conflicting interest of small vs large states
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
House of Burgesses
First Battle of Bull Run
Copernicus
38. 1) Government programs to provide jobs for the unemployed 2) Broadened the scope of the federal government's activities. 3) Permanently expanded the role of the presidency
The New deal Included
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
Popular Sovereignty
Beaver
39. Tobacco - cotton and slavery
Maya
Southern Colonies
3500 - 3000 BC
Ferdinand Magellan
40. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
Mexican American War
Mesopotamiia
Ponce de Leon
41. Most common religion of Arabian civilization
CA state tree
Egypt
Islam
Fostered Expansion of Industry
42. The south asked these two countries for help during the Civil War
No taxation without representation
The Missouri Compromise
Articles of confederation designed to
France - Britain
43. President Lincoln's first priority after the Civil War to reconcile the warring sides and rebuild areas affected by the war
Elastic Clause of the Constitution
Reconstruction
House of Burgesses
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
44. AD 250 - 900
The French Indian War
Japan
Laissez - Faire
Maya
45. State courts are required by the 6th and 14th amendments - right to speedy process - counsel
Andrew Jackson
Parliment Repealed the Act
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
Democratic - Republican Party
46. The Homestead Act of 1862 led to a displacement of this group
Robert E. Lee
Amerindians
Paved Roads
The French Alliance
47. Irrigation projects in the barren southern plains - agricultural advances - much food - allowed civilization to develop
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
California's Mission System
Californios
48. New methods of production (assembly line - mass production); inventions; Expanding markets at home and abroad; Development of steel - mining - electrical - petrolium - textile and food processing industries
The Jamestown Colony
Fostered Expansion of Industry
California's Mission System
WWI Began
49. An 1845 phrase encapsulating the American version of the Western Expansion
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
First Battle of Bull Run
Three - Fifths Compromise
Manifest Destiny
50. (1775) - Paul Revere - 'British are coming...' - 'Shots heard around the world'. The Revolution had begun
Search of a Sea route to Asia
British Army marches on Concord and Lexington
Greeks
Caucus (political system)