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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Countries that competed for land
Blackfoot
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
The New deal Included
Boston Massacre
2. A process that gives individual citizens - or groups of citizens - the power to place a proposed law on the ballot
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
Delegated Powers
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Initiative
3. Contributed to the growth of slavery
Cotton
Watergate
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
Recall
4. To win favors of the gods - who according to their beleifs - governed the life of mankind and the cycles of nature
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
The Annexation of Texas
Associated withe end of antiquity
5. Criminal supsects must be informed of their miranda rights
Federalist Papers
2nd & 3rd Amendment
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
6. States that the people have the power to establish and change rules
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Preamble
7. Wrote the Federalist Papers
Spain
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Appomatix Courthouse
8. Responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence
1990
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
Thomas Jefferson
Capitalism
9. Because of the expansionist goals of the West
India
Japan
Hellenistic age
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
10. Egyptian Civilation began
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Southern Colonies
Significant major development in American Revolution
CA state flower
11. Emphasizes mindfulness of an orderly society
Buddhism
Nullification
Reconstruction of the South
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
12. Aerospace
War of 1812
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
13. Europeans and Africans
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
Major Popluation Groups
14. Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - increase in international trade and commerce - end of the Greek city - state system as a major political setting
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Hellenistic age
Russia - China
Angel Island
15. Epics of Illiad and Odyssey come from
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
Paved Roads
Greece
Dust Bowl
16. Central figure in the ancient Inca religion
Massachusetts
Antietam
Sun
Sale of indulgences
17. Reaction of the British Government to the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Maidu
Cherokee and Iroquois Art
18. Created Great Wall of China - use of currency - weight and measure standardized - tomb of terra - cotta army
The Qin Dynasty
Northeastern Indian Culture
Completion of the Railroad in California
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
19. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
Atlanta Victory
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Diversity of Native Americans
20. 1868 - 1876
Radical Reconstruction Years
Northwest Ordinance
Cattle ranching
Fluid social structure
21. Forbade import of rum - duty on molasses - wines - silks - coffee and number of luxury items
Maidu
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Sugar Act of 1764
Louisiana Purchase
22. 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
Kush
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
Factors that led to American Revolution
The New deal Included
23. In 1763 a royal proclomation reserved all Western territory between Alleghencies - the Florida's and the Mississippi - and Quebec to be used by the
Pilgrims
Intolerable Acts
Indians
Octopus
24. 1837 Added potential slave territory to the United States
The Annexation of Texas
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
1861 - 1865
Chinese
25. The Savings and Loan bankruptcies resulted in massive federal intervention to cover
300 Billion Dollars
Emergence of Universities
The Rise of the New West created...
Principle of Dec. of Independence
26. An economic system in which the state controls the means of production and distributes the profits
Xia
Communism
Atsugewi
Mycenaeans
27. Credited with first implementation of democracy into government (citizens held public meetings - pass law - choose officials) No slaves - women or foreigners
Northwestern Indian Culture
George McClellan
California Geographic Features
Greeks
28. The idea that political authority belongs to the people
Popular Sovereignty
1989
Industrial Revolution in England
Socialism
29. Caused a wave of immigration into California in the 1930's
Dust Bowl
Copernicus
2nd & 3rd Amendment
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
30. To sail completely around the earth
Circumnavigate
Tea Act
Richmond
Beaver
31. Persian Gulf War
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
1991 - 1992
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Thomas Jefferson
32. 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
Advances in transportation and communication
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
Serf
33. River Valleys where there was an abudance of fertile soil and fresh water
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
California Geographic Features
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
34. American Indians agriculture and medical wisdonm
Manifest Destiny
Ignored by European Invaders
Japan
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
35. 1929
Southern Colonies
Great Depression Began
17th Amendment
Greece
36. Military conquest and trade incentives
Indians
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
Concurrent Powers
37. Growing proportion of Latinos in CA population
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Whig Party
Greeks
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
38. Freedom of religion - commercial considerations - overpopulation
Reasons for American Revolution
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
The Steam Engine
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
39. To gain an accurate sense of the resources being exchanged in the Louisiana Purchase
Buddhism
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
Cotton
Serf
40. Hydraulic mining
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Cattle ranching
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
41. The practice of state regulation and control of an economy
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Mercantilism
Pueblos
Federalism
42. A 'sacred expedition' in which twenty - one Spanish Catholic missions were established - spaced to be a single days travel apart on El Camino Real (the Royal Road)
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43. The admission of Maine as a free state preserved the slave state/free state balance in the senate
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
1789
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
44. Quail
Maya
Confederate Advantage
Yurok Indians
CA state bird
45. Created the first unified state in Inida (Indian) history
Chandragupta Maurya
1776 - 1781
Elastic Clause of the Constitution
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
46. A religious beleif in which - after physical death - a rebirth in another body occurs - a central tenet of Hinduism - among other religions
Three original state constitutions required
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Billeting Act of 1765
Reincarnation
47. A series of Islands
George Washington
Chinese Confucian Morality
George McClellan
Japan
48. Protect sovereignty of the states
Decline of the Roman empire
Oil Diplomacy
Articles of confederation designed to
Southern Colonies
49. Imperial Valley water flow from Colorado River - tried to increase water flow and the flood created the
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Salton sea
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
50. Oregon annexed to the United States
1846
Tories
Copernicus
Watergate