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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stamp Act - Townshend Act - Boston Massacre - Tea Act - Boston Tea Party - Intolerable Acts - British March on Concord and Lexington






2. Towns based around California's missions and presidios - built around a church and a town square






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. The start and end of the Age of Discovery






5. A branch of the system of checks and balances that sees that the country's laws are executed






6. Basis of government by the consent of the governed






7. Noriega was removed from Panama through the use of U.S. force in






8. 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)






9. Farthest north the confederates were able to get - called the 'High water mark of confederacy'






10. A polytheistic society located in Central America that made great advances in science and mathematics - but collapsed due to unknown causes






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






12. The 1820 legislation that tried to resolve the conflicts reaised by the addition of new territories as either slave or non - slave owning areas






13. Gain permanent access to the Mediterranean Sea

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14. Group that historically experienced the most discrimination (California Constitution statutes)






15. Union used Naval force most effectively to






16. A French word meaning - rebirth - the name given to the flowering of European culture at the end of the medieval period






17. Primary economic activity in Arabia






18. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864






19. CA land boom (1880's) - gold rush (1850) - the great depression (1930's)






20. Guaranteed black americans the righ to vote






21. Capitol of the North






22. Created Great Wall of China - use of currency - weight and measure standardized - tomb of terra - cotta army






23. Soviets invade Afghanistan






24. Belief in reincarnation - belief that through meditation one can frind freedom from suffering and enter Nirvana - respect for all living creatures






25. A mechanism fo rending an elected official's tenure before its scheduled completion






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. General who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War






28. Eastablished that the constitution grants to conress implied powers inherent in the nature of the Constitution as a blueprint for a practical functioning government - and the state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the






29. Responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence






30. Rabbits and other small game - bows and arrows or nets and snares. Accorns - mequite pods - pinon nuts - and other fruit of cacti. Planeted crops when water sufficient - pottery by coiling narrow ropes of clay.






31. Cluster of three to five small villages around a centraly village. Lands were held in common. Each tribe servered as part of a political organization. the Leader played a fairly minor role exept during time of war or talk of peace.






32. 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






33. Europeans and Africans






34. The worship of only one god






35. Growth of monopolies - unequal distribution of income - and overspeculation in the stock market






36. Created the first unified state in Inida (Indian) history






37. Sherman Anti - Trust Act (1890) - Clayton Anti - Trust Act (1914). The National Labor Relations Act (1935) - collective bargaining rights for employees.






38. A term used to describe the Central Pacifics Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce






39. Quail






40. Annual migration - in spring gathered budding plans and small game. Harvested dried pipening cactus fruites for winter storage. Moved to higher elevations in August - harvested acorns and pinon nuts before returning to winter villages.






41. Feather art in the form of a war bonnet






42. The Roman Empire






43. Growing criticism of the mission system prompted efforts to transfer mission holding into private hands






44. Practiced by European nations in an effort to assure properity by regulating and coordinting the production of goods - while protecting domestic economies from foreign competition.






45. Coast Range - Central Valley - Sierra Nevada






46. Created Judicial Review - ability to reivew a law for viloations






47. A philosophy - along with election rules - that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended






48. Victory gave Lincoln the right moment to make the Emancipation Procolomation






49. Tobacco - cotton and slavery






50. AD 1200 - 1533