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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Massive federal budget cuts - welfare reduced - personal and corporate taxes reduced - tax plan was characterized as 'trickle - down' economics
Economics
CA Indians prior to European contact
Juan Cabrillo
Reganomics
2. A religious revival in the colonies during the first part of the 18th century
California Constitution
CA state bird
Great Awakening
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
3. A brief attempt at the beginning of the Mexican - American War to establish an independent California republic
Bear Flag Revolt
Relations among social groups
Amerindians
Major Popluation Groups
4. (1774) Britain attempts to gain control of the colonies in response to Boston Tea Party by closing the Boston Harbor - enforcing quartering - closing town meetings and trying British citizens in Britain
Olmec
Intolerable Acts
Reconstruction
Stamp Act
5. 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
Manors
Owens Valley Paiute
Scalawags
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
6. Were not ratified for four years because Maryland refused to ratify them
Referendum
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
Articles of Confederation
Tongva (Gabrielino)
7. Guaranteed black americans the righ to vote
Renaissance
Delegated Powers
15th Amendment
Dust Bowl Regugees of 1930's
8. Free market capitalism
Reserved Powers
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Laissez - Faire
Robber Baron
9. 1929
Declaration of Independence
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Great Depression Began
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
10. Political party that wanted close ties with England
1991 - 1992
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Initiative
Tories
11. Because of the expansionist goals of the West
Gentleman's Agreement
The Mayflower Compact
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
Sugar Act of 1764
12. Forced quartering of British soldiers - excessive tarriffs - Intolerable acts
Mexican American War
Parliment Repealed the Act
Beaver
Factors that led to American Revolution
13. Persian Gulf War
Casues of Depression
CA Indians prior to European contact
1991 - 1992
China
14. Natural lake that has been threatened by the water needs of L.A.
Ronald Reagan
1990
Mono Lake
Mercantilism
15. The concept of religious freedom
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Judicial Branch
Hydraulic Mining
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
16. Stamp - Declatory - Townshend - Boston Massacre
California Constitution
Antietam Battle
Order of Acts
Paved Roads
17. Most closely associated with the development of a theocracy in America
Puritan
Pilgrims
Alchemy
Juan Cabrillo
18. Used tar to waterproof their canoes
Mesopotamiia
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Chumash
Primary purpose of the Mission System
19. National Government did not have the power to regulate foreign trade - had no court system - no independent taxing power - could not enforce national laws
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Atsugewi
No founded as a result of religious persecution
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
20. State courts are required by the 6th and 14th amendments - right to speedy process - counsel
2nd & 3rd Amendment
1991 - 1992
Salton sea
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
21. A process that gives individual citizens - or groups of citizens - the power to place a proposed law on the ballot
Constantine
Check their Westward Expansion
Renaissance
Initiative
22. Extends socialistic redistribution of wealth by the state to include government control in social and political areans as well
Communism
The French Alliance
Completion of the Railroad in California
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
23. Enacted the 'malice' standard allowed free reporting
Legislative Branch
Daimyo
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
24. Redefined American Global Interests
Constantine
Kush
300 Billion Dollars
Oil Diplomacy
25. The Roman Empire
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
Associated withe end of antiquity
Connected by El Camino Real
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
26. 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
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27. Eastern European Communism collapsed - Hussein invaded Kuwait
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Reserved Powers
1990
Fostered Expansion of Industry
28. Countries that competed for land
1989
Southern Colonies
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
French Indian War Victory
29. Caused a wave of immigration into California in the 1930's
Shasta
Dust Bowl
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
30. AD 1200 - 1533
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
Inca
Missouri Compromise
31. Shared by geographically seperated native California people in pre - columbian times
Central Valley Project (CVP)
1776 - 1781
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Sale of indulgences
32. No taxation without representation
CA Indians prior to European contact
Stamp Act
Discover westward route to Asia
California Constitution
33. 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
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
The Jamestown Colony
Casues of Depression
34. Mississipppi River
The counter - Reformation
Pilgrims
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
Weak
35. 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
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
Caste
Miwok
36. 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.
Manifest Destiny
Sun
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Achumawi
37. Water distribution system that provides water to the Imperial Valley
Products of the Industrial Revolution
1450-1763
China
The Colorado River
38. Congressional (Radical) plan emphasized the use of military force in treating the South like a conquered territory (congress won over presidential plan)
Egyptians
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Reconstruction of the South
39. To provide a greater voice in determining national politics
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Forty - niners
Land Commission
40. Social justice for blacks - National committment to equal opportunity
Founded as a result of religious persecution
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Scalawags
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
41. To win favors of the gods - who according to their beleifs - governed the life of mankind and the cycles of nature
Preamble
European Society under feudalism
Spanish American War
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
42. The first known written legal code - developed in ancient Babylong - predated the justinian Code by about 2000 years
1450-1763
Three original state constitutions required
Magna Carta
Code of Hammurabi
43. Solved the problem of isolation in California 1969
Transcontinental Railroad
China
Fostered Expansion of Industry
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
44. Patriot victory at Battle of Saratoge (1777) prompted by France to sign a treaty with American leaders
The French Indian War
Center region of US (minus texas)
Significant major development in American Revolution
Northeastern Indian Culture
45. Temprary resolution to the free/slave state controversey
Check their Westward Expansion
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Code of Hammurabi
Beaver
46. It ruined Gerald Ford's political future
Magna Carta
Antifederalists
Discover westward route to Asia
Pardon of Nixon
47. Wrote Common Sense
Ulysses S. Grant
Tories
Recall
Thomas Paine
48. A concept espoused by southerners following the Missouri Compromise that would have given southern states the right to refuse to obey laws that they did not agree with
Ponce de Leon
Nullification
Atlanta Victory
Kumeyaay
49. Iranian Hostage Situation Years
Robert E. Lee
Chavin
Olmec
1979 - 1981
50. Common reason given for the development of Feudalism
Fall of rome
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
Religious book of Islam
Article of Confederation Weaknesses