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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. Attempt to change base metals into gold






2. Like the English Parliment - the new state legislatures were...






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






4. The power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to congress and trumps the power of the state






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)






6. They opposed the democrats belief in states' rights and instead favored a strong national government.






7. Vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts

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8. Manpower - firepower - economic resources






9. The French threatened not only the British Empire - but the American colonists for holding the Mississippi Valley - Franch could...






10. Driving force of explorations of Americas






11. Allows congress to make laws on issues not mentioned in the Constitution






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






13. Animal that became synonymous with the fur trade in the first half of the 19th century






14. Civil Rights Bills Passed 14th & 15th Amendment






15. They replaced the Japanese as low- paid agricultural workers






16. 1325 AD - 1521 AD






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






18. This ideology encouraged U.S. expansion to the Pacific






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






20. An informal system of the exchange of goods and services among individuals






21. Powers assigned the National Government






22. Ruled that african americans could never become citizens - in slavery or not.






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






26. The admission of Maine as a free state preserved the slave state/free state balance in the senate






27. British acquired Florida as a result






28. It ruined Gerald Ford's political future






29. Southern whites who allied with the radicals






30. Senators to be directly elected by the people






31. First European explorer to reach coastal California (1542)






32. Union used Naval force most effectively to






33. Turning point in England's domination over North America (1756- 1763)






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






35. Federalist - Democratic - Whig - Republican






36. Wilsons Fourteen Points - Failure of congress to ratify






37. Isolating the South






38. Admistration supported massive build up of the defense program






39. Lack of resistance to European disease disseminated the populations






40. Proposed the beginning of Europe's Scientific Revolution - that Earth revolved around the sun






41. American Indians agriculture and medical wisdonm






42. Political instability and use of mercenary armies undermined the security of the empire






43. The New Nation - Alexander Hamilton was part of this era






44. Forced quartering of British soldiers - excessive tarriffs - Intolerable acts






45. Catholic churches influenced development in medieval Europe






46. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation






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






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






49. To link the demands of women to the greivance of the Revolutionary generation






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