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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Europes Renaissance - Age of Discovery - Copernican Revolution
The Qin Dynasty
Russia - China
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
2. Political instability and use of mercenary armies undermined the security of the empire
Presidio
Sugar Act of 1764
Decline of the Roman empire
France - Britain
3. Turning point of the war
Stamp Act
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg
4. Massive federal budget cuts - welfare reduced - personal and corporate taxes reduced - tax plan was characterized as 'trickle - down' economics
1837
Reganomics
Angel Island
Tories
5. Shipbuilding and Commerce
New England Colonies
George Washington
Caucus (political system)
Middle Passage
6. 1820 Limited the spread of slavery
Appomatix Courthouse
1861 - 1865
The Missouri Compromise
Transcontinental Railroad
7. A decision made by the Constitutional Congress splitting Congress into two houses - one based on population (House of Rep) and the other based on equal representations (Senate)
George McClellan
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
Great Compromise
Greatest increase in migratio to CA
8. 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
The Great Awakening
Diversity of Native Americans
Legislative Branch
Reganomics
9. Presidential plan emphasized tolerance for the defeated South (congress won with radical plan)
Appomatix Courthouse
Reconstruction of the South
Egypt
Octopus
10. 1974 - Destroyed the credibility of the American Government
1989
Puritan New England
Ponce de Leon
Watergate
11. Yellow river
Phoenicians
Forty - niners
China
The Plymouth Colony
12. A religious group who had broken away from the Church of England - first relocating to Holland to escape persecution - then setting sail in the fall of 1620 to become the first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Law of Supply and Demand
Recall
Pilgrims
13. Large quanitites of coal and iron - rapid increase in middle class - large supply of cheap labor
Industrial Revolution in England
Pardon of Nixon
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
14. Redefined American Global Interests
Circumnavigate
Oil Diplomacy
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
15. 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.
Agriculture
Mercantilism
Reason for Civil War
Los Angeles in 1960-2000 became the new 'Ellis Island'
16. Most lands along the eastern border of the state. Food and water scacre - tribes had to move frequently in search of food like rats and rabbits. Tribes include - Tubatulabal - and the Owens Valley Paiute.
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
The Great Basin
Boston Tea Party
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
17. 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
Francisco de Coronado
Chinese
Middle Passage
18. 1876 Election
Mexican American War
Louisiana Purchase
Sale of indulgences
Protect sovereignty of the states
19. In Feudal Japan - the equivalent of a medieval Eupopean king
Western Industrial Base
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Shogun
Richmond
20. Social rank on basis of wealth. Retained privledges passing fortunes to next generations. Salmon and acorn diet. Rituals like White Deerskins and Jumping Dances. Dance done to ward off disease and famin. Recite long narratives and display wealthy obj
Rancho System
Tea Act
Industrial Revolution in England
Hupa
21. Explored area that was to become the southwest of US (1540)
Yurok Indians
Francisco de Coronado
Code of Hammurabi
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
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
Union Strategy
The New deal Included
Economics
Lake Shasta - Lake Arrowhead
23. The branch of the system of checks and balances that makes Congressional laws
Military Reconstruction Acts
Watergate
Daimyo
Legislative Branch
24. Soviets invade Afghanistan
1979
Philip IV
Reganomics
First Battle of Bull Run
25. A polytheistic society located in Central America that made great advances in science and mathematics - but collapsed due to unknown causes
Industrial Revolution in England
Maya Indians
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
Bicarmeral
26. Towns based around California's missions and presidios - built around a church and a town square
Antietam Battle
The Jamestown Colony
Pueblos
3500 - 3000 BC
27. 1915
WWI Began
Achumawi
Reincarnation
1990
28. Nathanial Bacon lead this colony in a rebellion against the colonial government protesting the Government's Indian policy
CA state tree
Puritan
Virginia
1979
29. Congressional (Radical) plan emphasized the use of military force in treating the South like a conquered territory (congress won over presidential plan)
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Greece
Executive Branch
Reconstruction of the South
30. 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
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Middle Colonies
Popular Sovereignty
Fostered Expansion of Industry
31. Sounded the Death knell of feudalism
Cahuilla
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Barter
Money - Econcomy
32. Richard Nixon
Chumash
Immigration Reform Act 1965
Olmec
Native Californian who became president
33. Years of the Civil War
15th Amendment
Boston Massacre
1861 - 1865
Conquistadores
34. American industry propspered when trade was restricted by the British during the war
Positive result of the war in 1812
France - Britain
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
35. (1773) A group of colonists - led by Samuel Adams - Paul Revere - and others - disguised themselves as Native Americans - boarded English ships on the night of Dec. 16 - 1773 - and threw the tea into the harbor
Boston Tea Party
Native Californian who became president
Philip IV
Louisiana Purchase
36. The Homestead Act of 1862 led to a displacement of this group
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
Amerindians
Chinese
37. The Savings and Loan bankruptcies resulted in massive federal intervention to cover
Antietam Battle
300 Billion Dollars
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Aqueduct
38. Local governments are sovereign in matters of local concern
Reconstruction of the South
Buddhism
Pardon of Nixon
Federalism practiced in early Republic
39. The GDP dropped. Unemployment increased. The 'Big Three' automakers posted record losses. Bankruptcies increased. The Fed lowered interest rates in an attempt to stimulate the economy
Factors of the Economic Slowdowof 1988
Chavin
Concurrent Powers
Fief
40. Japanese feudal lord
Daimyo
WWI Began
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
1861 - 1865
41. Agean civilization developed a flourishing culture as a direct result of trade and commerce on the Aegean Sea
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Most serious objection to the Japanese relocation plan in CA
Mycenaeans
Popular Sovereignty
42. Best known as CA basketmakers - twined and coilded ware in many shapes. Otlined with brightly colored feathers - plumes - beads - and shells.
Pomo
President Johnson
Manifest Destiny
Rancho System
43. Golden Poppy
Oil Diplomacy
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
CA state flower
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
44. Common reason given for the development of Feudalism
Townshend Acts
17th Amendment
Aztec
Fall of rome
45. Adding amendments to the CA constitution to protect workers rights - passage of initiative - referendum - and recall - establishing a railroad commision
The counter - Reformation
The Rise of the New West created...
No taxation without representation
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
46. (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
Associated withe end of antiquity
Bowl and Basket Weaving
Robert E. Lee
Tea Act
47. The United States obtained posession of this region in an 1846 treaty with Great Britian
CA state bird
Decline of the Roman empire
Center region of US (minus texas)
Egyptians
48. Like the English Parliment - the new state legislatures were...
Mercantilism
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Bicarmeral
Barter
49. ...his troops were trapped by Grant's Army
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Communism
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
50. Not a victory for Grant
Chickamauga
Phoenicians
No taxation without representation
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