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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory
Jacksonian Democracy
Northwest Ordinance
Russia - China
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
2. Supplemented their hunting with agrictulre. Grew corn - beans and pumpkins in fertile flood plains. Traded with many tribes - tribes include (Quechan (Yuma) Halchidhoma - Mohave.
Colorado River Indian Culture
Boston Massacre
The Great Awakening
Dust Bowl
3. Distinct social class - elite were wealthy individuals and headmen Marriage only in same class.
Tongva (Gabrielino)
Ten Percent Plan
Intolerable Acts
California's Mission System
4. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
Greece
Parliment Repealed the Act
Owens Valley Paiute
New Frontier Pledge
5. Ended Feb 2 - 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Rise of the New West created...
Land Commission
Atsugewi
Mexican American War
6. Protect sovereignty of the states
Puritan
Defeat of Cornwallis of Yorktown
Why French aidid the English during American Revolution
Articles of confederation designed to
7. Barbed wire
Tea Act
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Salton sea
Order of Acts
8. Nile River
United States and CA governments similar
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Egypt
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
9. One of China's greatest dynasties
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
Renaissance
Tan Dynasty
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
10. Greatest contribution of ancient Hebrew civilation to modern western civilation
18th Century
Oil Diplomacy
Battle of Gettysburg
Mosiac Law
11. Capitalism
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
Union Strategy
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Federalism
12. 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
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Southern Colonies
Black Code Laws
13. Local governments are sovereign in matters of local concern
Democratic - Republicans
First Battle of Bull Run
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Federalism practiced in early Republic
14. 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
Reserved Powers
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
Jacksonian Democracy
15. Homestead Act (1862); Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
2nd & 3rd Amendment
Salton sea
Aids to settlement of the West
Egypt
16. A proclamation made by President Lincoln in1863 freeing all slaves in regions still fighting against the Union
Serf
Emancipation Proclamation
Union Advantage
Northwest Ordinance
17. George Mason in objections to the constituion represented which group
Battle of Gettysburg
Benjamin Franklin
Democratic - Republicans
Constituion Did (four things)
18. Suprmeme court outlawed racial segragation - overrulled seperate but equal.
Laissez - Faire
Central Valley Project (CVP)
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
19. The worship of only one god
Monotheism
Buddhism
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
The Great Basin
20. Soviet Union was desolved in
Democracy
Battle of Gettysburg
The Colorado River
1991
21. Golden Poppy
Amendment to the Constituion Requires
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
CA state flower
22. Quail
CA state bird
Democratic - Republican Party
Weak
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
23. 1837 Added potential slave territory to the United States
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
Townshend Acts
The Annexation of Texas
18th Century
24. Christ's own words render taxes to Caesar and delcared to continue resistance to taxes would equal betraying the State and aiding enemies of the state
Daniel Shays
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Sun
Philip IV
25. 1940 - 1950
Circumnavigate
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
Buddhism
26. One of most popular in CA - from Pacific Coast to Sierra nevada. Earth covered homes - in Sierra Nevada houses were three or four layers of bark. Homes near coast were interlocking poles of willow or driftwood. Bunchess of grass or reeds tied in rows
Miwok
Tubatulabl
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
Aircraft industry/WWII
27. Primary economic activity in Arabia
Bushido
Agriculture
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
Louisiana Purchase
28. Lack of resistance to European disease disseminated the populations
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Thomas Paine
Religious book of Islam
Caste
29. Nathanial Bacon lead this colony in a rebellion against the colonial government protesting the Government's Indian policy
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Virginia
Central Indian culture
1991 - 1992
30. Like the English Parliment - the new state legislatures were...
Boston Massacre
Bicarmeral
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Aztec
31. Golden Trout
CA state freshwater fish
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
32. A land allotment system defined by a few large landowners and many landless workers
Rancho System
Reconstruction of the South
Antifederalists
Benjamin Franklin
33. Influence of ancient Rome on later development of European civilization
Buddhism
The Legal code of france
Benjamin Franklin
1979 - 1981
34. Driving force of explorations of Americas
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Buddhism
Octopus
35. Decorated pottery and baskets - quiltwork and beadwork - and wood ritual masks
Cherokee and Iroquois Art
First Battle of Bull Run
CA Indians prior to European contact
15th Amendment
36. California 1821 - 1846 dominant institutions were
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
Rancheros
Bear Flag Revolt
Industrial Revolution in England
37. A system of government consisting of self - regluating regions (states) united by a central (federal) government
Indians
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Federalism
Declaration of Independence
38. Fished on canoe shaped rafts - relied heavily on salmon and acorns. Haproons and dragnets to fish. Groves of lvalley oaks - great amounts of acorns for thick suop. San Joaquin Valley - wetlands - birds - duck - geese - elk - antelope.
Check their Westward Expansion
Mexican American War
Yokuts
Middle Passage
39. A result of the presidential election of 1876
End of Reconstruction
Tea Act
1932 - 1938
Plato
40. Theocracy - a governemtn by ecclesiastical authorities - civil authority residing with clergy.
Oil Diplomacy
Puritan New England
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
Sharecroppers
41. Coasts (trading - transportation - Presidio military protection); Mountains: Smaller Valleys: Vast Lands (huge cattle ranches large game in over 1/2 state); Many streams and Rivers (fish were abundent - fertile for crops)
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
California Geographic Features
Silicon Valley
42. Group that historically experienced the most discrimination (California Constitution statutes)
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
Chinese
Slavery
Democracy
43. 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.
Emancipation Proclamation
California Constitution
Economics
Shasta
44. To maintain self - sufficient agricultural economy that produced a food surplus
Free - soliders
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Popular Sovereignty
Massachusetts
45. A religious group who had broken away from the Church of England - first relocating to Holland to escape persecution - then setting sail in the fall of 1620 to become the first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts
Chickamauga
Pilgrims
Mycenaeans
Decline of the Roman empire
46. Written into the Constitution - this concept is one of the cornerstones of our republic - encompassing three branches of governement and a system for them to act as watchdogs for the others
1846
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
Check and Balances
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
47. Wrote Common Sense
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Diversity of Native Americans
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Thomas Paine
48. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864
Tan Dynasty
Atlanta Victory
Puritan
Center region of US (minus texas)
49. Conflicting interest of small vs large states
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
Louisiana Purchase
Magna Carta
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
50. Voyage of exploration commanded by John Cabot - Jacques Cartier - and Henry Hudson
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Discover westward route to Asia
Reserved Powers
Casues of Depression