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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Theocracy - a governemtn by ecclesiastical authorities - civil authority residing with clergy.
Shogun
Puritan New England
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Shasta
2. Political instability and use of mercenary armies undermined the security of the empire
Economics
Three original state constitutions required
The code of chivalry in European Knights
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
3. Nathanial Bacon lead this colony in a rebellion against the colonial government protesting the Government's Indian policy
Sierra Nevada
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
Northeastern Indian Culture
Virginia
4. Supplemented their hunting with agrictulre. Grew corn - beans and pumpkins in fertile flood plains. Traded with many tribes - tribes include (Quechan (Yuma) Halchidhoma - Mohave.
Communism
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
California Constitution
Colorado River Indian Culture
5. 1848 - Was criticized as a proslavery - expansionist war
The Mexican War
1776 - 1781
Spanish American War
Boston Massacre
6. Reagan's appointments to the Supreme Court
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7. Led by a headman or timiwal. Appointed by council and served for life. Primary counselor - arbritator. Diet of acorns - six differenct species of oaks and pinon nuts. Gathereed from eastern slopes of Sierra Nevada. Small seeds and berries were gather
Thomas Jefferson
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
Check and Balances
Tubatulabl
8. Belief in reincarnation - belief that through meditation one can frind freedom from suffering and enter Nirvana - respect for all living creatures
Buddhism
Reserved Powers
The Draft
Manors
9. No taxation without representation
Federalism practiced in early Republic
Yurok Indians
Stamp Act
Polytheistic
10. In Feudal Japan - the equivalent of a medieval Eupopean king
Pilgrims
Federalist Papers
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Shogun
11. Hydraulic mining
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
Immigration Reform Act 1965
12. A mechanism fo rending an elected official's tenure before its scheduled completion
1837
Recall
Buddhism
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
13. Success of the colony sparked a huge migration to the New World from England - signed an agreement among themselves they would have a government based on the church's teachings - came to America seeking freedom from religous persecution
Oil Diplomacy
Referendum
2nd & 3rd Amendment
The Plymouth Colony
14. Richard Nixon
Tories
California Geographic Features
Greeks
Native Californian who became president
15. 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.
Economic development of American west during 19th century
3500 - 3000 BC
Cahuilla
Reconstruction of the South
16. Epics of Illiad and Odyssey come from
Greece
CA state freshwater fish
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
Preamble
17. Vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts
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18. 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
Japan
Products of the Industrial Revolution
Pomo
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
19. Hammurabi - The first written code of law
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
Shasta
Babylonians
India
20. Tigres - Euphrates Valley - Fertile Crescent - and Nile Vallyez
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Comprised of Near East
California Constitution
21. High value or hard work. Trout and fish gathered with nests in rivers and lakes. Rabbits hunted in groups. Larger game by individuals - trned over kill to village for general use. Sixth days set for rest - Big annual celebration autumnal pakapi or 'b
Atsugewi
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
French Indian War Victory
22. An economic system regulated by the state that encourages the accumulation of weath and property by individuals
Aids to settlement of the West
Capitalism
Reincarnation
Fluid social structure
23. California's two major mountain ranges are the Coast Ranges and...
Daniel Shays
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Sierra Nevada
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
24. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Amerindians
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
Mesopotamiia
Louisiana Purchase
25. King - Baron - Bishop - Lord - Peasant
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
1776 - 1781
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Tan Dynasty
26. No formal countries - but the fiefdom held economic and political power
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Mercantilism
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
27. Nickname for the influx of people that arrived in California - staring in 1849 - in search of gold
Forty - niners
House of Burgesses
Free - soliders
The French Indian War
28. Romans were first civilization to build..
Pilgrims
Chandragupta Maurya
Paved Roads
Manifest Destiny
29. Manmade lakes
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
NOT characteristic of European Renissance
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
30. The first known written legal code - developed in ancient Babylong - predated the justinian Code by about 2000 years
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Code of Hammurabi
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Buddhism
31. Capitalism
Articles of confederation designed to
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
1989
Yokuts
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
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
Puritan New England
Democracy
The Jamestown Colony
33. Without evidence of disloyalty it demonstrated that constitutional safeguards could be rendered ineffective in wartime
Great Awakening
1776 - 1781
Missouri Compromise
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
34. Europes Renaissance - Age of Discovery - Copernican Revolution
Decline of the Roman empire
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Washington
35. Olmec - Mayan - Toltec - Aztec
War of 1812
American civilizations in chronological order
15th Amendment
Postclassic period (800 AD)
36. Shipbuilding and Commerce
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
New England Colonies
Code of Hammurabi
37. Little Napoleon - suffered several defeats - replaced - put back in command - and replaced again
George McClellan
French Indian War Victory
China
Economics
38. George Mason in objections to the constituion represented which group
Democratic - Republicans
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Boston Tea Party
Appomatix Courthouse
39. New methods of production (assembly line - mass production); inventions; Expanding markets at home and abroad; Development of steel - mining - electrical - petrolium - textile and food processing industries
Tea Act
CA state bird
CA state flower
Fostered Expansion of Industry
40. Growth of monopolies - unequal distribution of income - and overspeculation in the stock market
Democracy
Casues of Depression
Confederate Advantage
Scalawags
41. Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - increase in international trade and commerce - end of the Greek city - state system as a major political setting
Atlanta Victory
Slavery
Hellenistic age
Alchemy
42. CA land boom (1880's) - gold rush (1850) - the great depression (1930's)
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
House of Burgesses
Radical Reconstruction Years
Scalawags
43. 1868 - 1876
Rancho System
Radical Reconstruction Years
Babylonians
Monotheism
44. Because of the expansionist goals of the West
Why French aidid the English during American Revolution
Agriculture
Maidu
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
45. Group that historically experienced the most discrimination (California Constitution statutes)
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Chinese
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Dust Bowl Regugees of 1930's
46. Most closely associated with the development of a theocracy in America
Reason for Civil War
Democracy
The Gentleman's Agreement - 1907
Puritan
47. Growing proportion of Latinos in CA population
Reasons for American Revolution
Reconstruction of the South
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Antifederalists
48. California to Alaska - dense woodlands of redwoods. Great rainfall - social status dertmined by objects - Rich men led - tribes include Yurok - Hupa and Shasta
Northwestern Indian Culture
Articles of Confederation
Check and Balances
300 Billion Dollars
49. Economic sanctions were lifted against South Africa when it shifted away from apartheid in
Confederate Advantage
1990
Atlanta Victory
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
50. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
1979
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Robber Baron
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe