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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. (1767) Taxed many products such as paper - glass and tea
Townshend Act
Union Advantage
Chumash
Ignored by European Invaders
2. George Mason in objections to the constituion represented which group
Democratic - Republicans
Economics
The Colorado River
Maya Indians
3. 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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4. Stamp - Declatory - Townshend - Boston Massacre
Order of Acts
Gettysburg
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Stamp Act
5. A religious beleif in which - after physical death - a rebirth in another body occurs - a central tenet of Hinduism - among other religions
Reincarnation
Billeting Act of 1765
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
House of Burgesses
6. Farthest north the confederates were able to get - called the 'High water mark of confederacy'
Sale of indulgences
Gettysburg
Popular Sovereignty
Great Depression Began
7. Noriega was removed from Panama through the use of U.S. force in
1989
Middle Passage
Emancipation Proclamation
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
8. Mississipppi River
1979
The Great Basin
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
Serf
9. Japan feudalism had as its basis
Maya Indians
Babylonians
Chinese Confucian Morality
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
10. Sought to control colonial trade because it did not want competition with it's own manufacturers
Great Britain
Japan
Alchemy
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
11. A nickname for the Southern part of San Francisco Bay Area in the northern California - originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers - but eventually referring to the concentration of all types of high - tech
Ronald Reagan
Townshend Act
Silicon Valley
Features of ancient India
12. A process that gives individual citizens - or groups of citizens - the power to place a proposed law on the ballot
Mayflower Compact
Chumash
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Initiative
13. Trade gap widened. Japan and Germany surpassed the U.S. in automobiles and airlines
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
The federal deficit escalated dramatically in the 1980s and threatened the economic stability of the U.S. What 2 things contributed to this?
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
14. First written language
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Virginia
Barter
Sumerians
15. Granting land use within a fief - ceremonies of homage and fealty - vassals commitment to provide military service to a lord
European Society under feudalism
Factors that led to American Revolution
Chumash
Japan
16. The Savings and Loan bankruptcies resulted in massive federal intervention to cover
Agriculture
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Ulysses S. Grant
300 Billion Dollars
17. The 1820 legislation that tried to resolve the conflicts reaised by the addition of new territories as either slave or non - slave owning areas
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Missouri Compromise
Andrew Jackson
Legislative Branch
18. 1325 AD - 1521 AD
Bear Flag Revolt
Aztec
Islam
Rancheros
19. Abundant natural resources - access to Great Lakes and ports of foreign shipments - availability of cheap labor
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Robber Baron
Agriculture
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
20. Interment camps that held people of Japanese descent durin World War II
Relocation Camp
Puritan New England
Atsugewi
Chandragupta Maurya
21. Growing proportion of Latinos in CA population
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
California Constitution
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
22. Powers set aside for state governments
Rancheros
1990
CA Indians prior to European contact
Reserved Powers
23. 1898 - Resulted in the ceding of Puerto Rico - Guam - and the Phillipines to the United States
Spanish American War
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
Great Britain
24. Attracted the largest number of Chinese immigrants to US after gold rush
China
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Olmec
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
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.
Buddhism
Buddhism
Washington
18th Century
26. Strong manufacturing base
California Constitution
Yurok Indians
Union Advantage
Code of Hammurabi
27. Lee surrendered to Grant
Communism
1991 - 1992
Appomatix Courthouse
Economics
28. Southern whites who allied with the radicals
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Caucus (political system)
Scalawags
Aztec
29. 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
Atlanta Victory
Associated withe end of antiquity
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Achumawi
30. Framers who were provided some land - housing and supplies by white landowners in return for giving landowners a portion of their crops
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Sharecroppers
Hupa
31. Persian Gulf War
1991 - 1992
CA state bird
Confederate Advantage
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
32. 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
Californios
Carpetbaggers
Mono Lake
Constantine
33. Invention that launched the industrial age
Economics
Communism
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
The Steam Engine
34. Sanctification of knighthood - the sacking of Constantinople and other parts of Asia minor - the waning of the practice of alchemy as a medicine
18th Century
The Colorado River
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Influenced by christianity
35. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864
Atlanta Victory
Chumas
Buddhism
Slavery
36. Social justice for blacks - National committment to equal opportunity
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
37. Admistration supported massive build up of the defense program
Ronald Reagan
Referendum
Manifest Destiny
Constituion Did (four things)
38. Used tar to waterproof their canoes
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Chumash
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
39. In 1829 inaugural address - he set a policy to relocate Eastern Indians
Andrew Jackson
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Fluid social structure
Louisiana Purchase
40. Belief in reincarnation - belief that through meditation one can frind freedom from suffering and enter Nirvana - respect for all living creatures
Military Reconstruction Acts
Buddhism
Economics
Virginia
41. Not a victory for Grant
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Chickamauga
China
Sierra Nevada
42. Earliest sophisticated culture of the Andean Highland civilization
Maya
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Chavin
Why French aidid the English during American Revolution
43. Economic philosophy espoused by Karl Marx that distributes wealth to the workers that produce it
Scalawags
1789
Socialism
Yokuts
44. A result of the presidential election of 1876
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Boycotting Britsh Goods
End of Reconstruction
War of 1812
45. Best known as CA basketmakers - twined and coilded ware in many shapes. Otlined with brightly colored feathers - plumes - beads - and shells.
Associated withe end of antiquity
Russia - China
Pomo
The Great Basin
46. Massive federal budget cuts - welfare reduced - personal and corporate taxes reduced - tax plan was characterized as 'trickle - down' economics
Characteristics of the European Renissance
The Great Basin
Reganomics
Ronald Reagan
47. The first constitution of the United States of America
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
Articles of Confederation
Mexican American War
Geographical factors that accounted for emergence of Byzantium as a powerful trading empire
48. Decorated pottery and baskets - quiltwork and beadwork - and wood ritual masks
Babylonians
California Geographic Features
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Cherokee and Iroquois Art
49. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
New Frontier Pledge
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
Connected by El Camino Real
50. Responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence
Executive Branch
Thomas Jefferson
Sugar Act of 1764
1990
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