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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. 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
The Plymouth Colony
Sugar Act of 1764
Northwest Ordinance
Decline of the Roman empire
2. An 1845 phrase encapsulating the American version of the Western Expansion
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Manifest Destiny
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
Rancho System
3. Feared a strong central government
Significant major development in American Revolution
1990
Antifederalists
The Steam Engine
4. Epics of Illiad and Odyssey come from
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Center region of US (minus texas)
Greece
Fief
5. Aerospace
Delegated Powers
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Features of ancient India
6. A philosophy - along with election rules - that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended
Ignored by European Invaders
Seperate but Equal
Louisiana Purchase
Communism
7. Used tar to waterproof their canoes
The Jamestown Colony
Laissez - Faire
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Chumash
8. Isolating the South
The Draft
Greece
Union Strategy
Slavery
9. The idea that political authority belongs to the people
Maidu
Popular Sovereignty
Yurok Indians
Sharecroppers
10. Written into the Constitution - this concept is one of the cornerstones of our republic - encompassing three branches of governement and a system for them to act as watchdogs for the others
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
Buddhism
Aztec
Check and Balances
11. CA land boom (1880's) - gold rush (1850) - the great depression (1930's)
Silicon Valley
Whig Party
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
Ponce de Leon
12. A social economic - and political system in which power is decentralized - and a varying number of lords hold land on which they allow others to live and work in return for loyalty and service
Washington
Influenced by christianity
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
Feudalism
13. Southern whites who allied with the radicals
Comprised of Near East
Socialism
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Scalawags
14. 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.
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
Maidu
Center region of US (minus texas)
Union Strategy
15. 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
1789
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
Articles of confederation designed to
16. Absolutism
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17. The worship of only one god
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Islam
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
Monotheism
18. An economic system regulated by the state that encourages the accumulation of weath and property by individuals
The Missouri Compromise
Indians
Capitalism
Manifest Destiny
19. British acquired Florida as a result
The Missouri Compromise
French Indian War Victory
The Mexican War
Democratic - Republican Party
20. Tigres - Euphrates Valley - Fertile Crescent - and Nile Vallyez
Relocation Camp
Features of ancient India
Relations among social groups
Comprised of Near East
21. King - Baron - Bishop - Lord - Peasant
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
Military Reconstruction Acts
Federalist Papers
22. Shared by geographically seperated native California people in pre - columbian times
Paved Roads
1776 - 1781
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
23. A religious beleif in which - after physical death - a rebirth in another body occurs - a central tenet of Hinduism - among other religions
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
Phoenicians
Reincarnation
Massachusettes Bay
24. A process that gives individual citizens - or groups of citizens - the power to place a proposed law on the ballot
Chickamauga
Buddhism
Initiative
The Legal code of france
25. I provided for a strong central government and federal taxation
Caucus (political system)
1990
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
26. First European explorer to circumnavigate the globe
The Gentleman's Agreement - 1907
Ferdinand Magellan
15th Amendment
Magna Carta
27. A minor but influential political party int he pre - Civil War period that opposed the extention of slavery into the western territories
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
Chumas
Maidu
Free - soliders
28. Wrote the Federalist Papers
Pilgrims
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Olmec
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
29. A religious revival in the colonies during the first part of the 18th century
Great Awakening
American Revolution Chronological Order
Kumeyaay
Greece
30. Missouri Compromise of 1820 was designed to resolve conflict in this area
Slavery
Delegated Powers
Antietam
Californios
31. 1863 - This battle ended the souths chance of foreign recognition
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
Miwok
Battle of Gettysburg
American Revolution Chronological Order
32. Texas annexed to the United States
Great Britain
Bushido
Union Advantage
1837
33. Central Valley and the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada
Townshend Act
The Jamestown Colony
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
Atsugewi
34. Bush raised taxes on these items in 1990 to decrease the decifit
Reasons for American Revolution
No taxation without representation
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
35. Framers who were provided some land - housing and supplies by white landowners in return for giving landowners a portion of their crops
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Plato
1979 - 1981
Sharecroppers
36. An informal meeting of party leaders who decide which candidates they will support
Caucus (political system)
The code of chivalry in European Knights
Buddhism
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution
37. 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
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
The Jamestown Colony
1989
Ignored by European Invaders
38. 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
The Great Awakening
Watergate
Owens Valley Paiute
Chavin
39. Guaranteed black americans the righ to vote
Tories
Slavery
15th Amendment
Laissez - Faire
40. Allows congress to make laws on issues not mentioned in the Constitution
Popular Sovereignty
Elastic Clause of the Constitution
Phoenicians
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
41. Desolate areas - scare food - hunting small game and seeds and roots. Thinly settled - tribues include Achumawi and Atsugewi.
Maidu
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Gibbons vs Ogden - 1824
Northeastern Indian Culture
42. A mechanism fo rending an elected official's tenure before its scheduled completion
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Recall
Emancipation Proclamation
43. A land allotment system defined by a few large landowners and many landless workers
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Chumash
Rancho System
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
44. Nile River
Egypt
Declaration of Independence
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Change of date of presidential primaries from March to February in CA
45. France viewed the revolution as a means to gain territory at the expense of Britain - France wanted to limit the economic growth of England - France and England were already at war on the European continent
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Associated withe end of antiquity
Sumerians
Why French aidid the English during American Revolution
46. 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.
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Chinese
Achumawi
Reason for Civil War
47. The colonist gained a sense of independence because they challenged church beliefs - they felt unified because of a common religion - ties between church and state weakened - a greater sense of equality because preachers stressed equality of all
Seperate but Equal
The Great Awakening
Agriculture
Billeting Act of 1765
48. The French threatened not only the British Empire - but the American colonists for holding the Mississippi Valley - Franch could...
Communism
Yokuts
Check their Westward Expansion
Hydraulic Mining
49. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
New Frontier Pledge
Code of Hammurabi
Sumerians
1932 - 1938
50. 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
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
The New deal Included
Caste
Communism
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