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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Attempt to change base metals into gold
Slavery
Rancheros
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
Alchemy
2. Like the English Parliment - the new state legislatures were...
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
2nd & 3rd Amendment
Concurrent Powers
Bicarmeral
3. 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
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
Rancho System
Philip IV
Angel Island
4. The power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to congress and trumps the power of the state
Greece
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
Californios
5. Federal Government response to the Great Depression - overwhelming unemployment and need for public works. Many dams and large sclae projects - Central Valley Project - Shasta Dam (second largest dam in the US - after Hoover dam - also WPA project)
Native Californian who became president
Initiative
Delegated Powers
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
6. They opposed the democrats belief in states' rights and instead favored a strong national government.
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Whig Party
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
7. Vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts
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8. Manpower - firepower - economic resources
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Civil War - North Power
Maidu
Taoism
9. The French threatened not only the British Empire - but the American colonists for holding the Mississippi Valley - Franch could...
Sumerians
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Ponce de Leon
Check their Westward Expansion
10. Driving force of explorations of Americas
The Great Basin
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
Economics
11. Allows congress to make laws on issues not mentioned in the Constitution
Antietam
Oil Diplomacy
Elastic Clause of the Constitution
15th Amendment
12. A revival of learning based on classical sources - development of highly realistic linear perspective in art - discarding of the Aristolean 'final cause' in favor of scientific method
Monotheism
American Revolution Chronological Order
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
13. Animal that became synonymous with the fur trade in the first half of the 19th century
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
1979
Beaver
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
14. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment
Blockade Southern ports
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
First Battle of Bull Run
Bills Passed During Reconstruction
15. They replaced the Japanese as low- paid agricultural workers
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
Tories
George Washington
16. 1325 AD - 1521 AD
The Legal code of france
Aztec
Puritan
France - Britain
17. (1773) - The Tea Act - passed by Parliament in May of 1773 - would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies - and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed
Tea Act
Washington
End of Reconstruction
17th Amendment
18. This ideology encouraged U.S. expansion to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
Aqueduct
Caste
Slavery
19. 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
Bushido
The Plymouth Colony
The Legal code of france
Mexican American War
20. An informal system of the exchange of goods and services among individuals
Barter
California Constitution
Puritan New England
Great Compromise
21. Powers assigned the National Government
3500 - 3000 BC
Delegated Powers
The Colorado River
Cattle ranching
22. Ruled that african americans could never become citizens - in slavery or not.
Democratic - Republicans
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
Pilgrims
Relocation Camp
23. Absolutism
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24. Grapes of Wrath
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25. Water distribution system that provides water to the Imperial Valley
The Colorado River
Robber Baron
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Bowl and Basket Weaving
26. The admission of Maine as a free state preserved the slave state/free state balance in the senate
Referendum
Hydraulic Mining
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
Primary factor that allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1821
27. British acquired Florida as a result
French Indian War Victory
Chumas
The Legal code of france
Townshend Acts
28. It ruined Gerald Ford's political future
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Pardon of Nixon
Land Commission
Native Californian who became president
29. Southern whites who allied with the radicals
Why French aidid the English during American Revolution
Scalawags
Land Commission
George McClellan
30. Senators to be directly elected by the people
The Qin Dynasty
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Democracy
17th Amendment
31. First European explorer to reach coastal California (1542)
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Significant major development in American Revolution
Juan Cabrillo
The Great Basin
32. Union used Naval force most effectively to
The New deal Included
Chandragupta Maurya
Tubatulabl
Blockade Southern ports
33. Turning point in England's domination over North America (1756- 1763)
The French Indian War
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Stamp Act
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
34. Help turned the tide so that Lincoln was able to win a second term in 1864
Atlanta Victory
Sugar Act of 1764
Federalism
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
35. Federalist - Democratic - Whig - Republican
Emergence of National Parties in US
Declaration of Independence - July 4th 1776
Agriculture
Law of Supply and Demand
36. Wilsons Fourteen Points - Failure of congress to ratify
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
Ulysses S. Grant
End of WWI
Kumeyaay
37. Isolating the South
Virginia
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
Great Depression Began
Union Strategy
38. Admistration supported massive build up of the defense program
26th Amendment
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Ronald Reagan
Economics
39. Lack of resistance to European disease disseminated the populations
Maya
Manors
Legislative Branch
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
40. Proposed the beginning of Europe's Scientific Revolution - that Earth revolved around the sun
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
Egypt and Mesopatamia
1990
Copernicus
41. American Indians agriculture and medical wisdonm
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
New England Colonies
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Ignored by European Invaders
42. Political instability and use of mercenary armies undermined the security of the empire
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
Democratic - Republicans
Decline of the Roman empire
Babylonians
43. The New Nation - Alexander Hamilton was part of this era
Protect sovereignty of the states
Puritan New England
CA state bird
1787 - 1823
44. Forced quartering of British soldiers - excessive tarriffs - Intolerable acts
Amendment to the Constituion Requires
Factors that led to American Revolution
Monotheism
Great Depression Began
45. Catholic churches influenced development in medieval Europe
Discover westward route to Asia
Emergence of Universities
Northeast section of the U.S. opposed to 1812 war
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
46. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
New Frontier Pledge
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
European Society under feudalism
First Battle of Bull Run
47. A plan created by President Lincoln before his assassination - and carried out by the successor - Andrew Johnson - stating that a state could be readmitted to the Union if ten percent of the former Confederates in the state who had voted in the 1860
Relocation Camp
Declaration of Independence - July 4th 1776
Ten Percent Plan
The code of chivalry in European Knights
48. A polytheistic society located in Central America that made great advances in science and mathematics - but collapsed due to unknown causes
Transcontinental Railroad
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
Maya Indians
Slavery
49. To link the demands of women to the greivance of the Revolutionary generation
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
50. Sherman Anti - Trust Act (1890) - Clayton Anti - Trust Act (1914). The National Labor Relations Act (1935) - collective bargaining rights for employees.
Sale of indulgences
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam