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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Earliest sophisticated culture of the Andean Highland civilization
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Order of Acts
Chavin
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
2. General who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
Watergate
Robert E. Lee
Caucus (political system)
3. Stopped merchant ships and demanded tolls without authorization (12th & 13th centuries); businessman amasssing huge fortunes through unfair business practice (19th century)
France
Robber Baron
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
American Revolution Chronological Order
4. Abundant natural resources - access to Great Lakes and ports of foreign shipments - availability of cheap labor
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Legislative Branch
Conquistadores
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
5. Outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory
Northwest Ordinance
The French Alliance
Great Depression Began
The Draft
6. A term used to describe the Central Pacifics Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce
Octopus
Barter
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
Initiative
7. Galileo
Hydraulic Mining
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Blackfoot
Billeting Act of 1765
8. Dissolved the government of all the Confederate States except Tennessee and divided the remaining Southern States into five districts
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
Articles of Confederation
Antietam
Military Reconstruction Acts
9. Interment camps that held people of Japanese descent durin World War II
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Relocation Camp
Laissez - Faire
An important development in CA society during Mexican rule 1821-1848
10. To win favors of the gods - who according to their beleifs - governed the life of mankind and the cycles of nature
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Hinduism
Native Californian who became president
Ceremonial Centers in Mesoamerican Cultures
11. First European explorer to reach coastal California (1542)
The code of chivalry in European Knights
Transcontinental Railroad
Juan Cabrillo
Completion of the Railroad in California
12. Desolate areas - scare food - hunting small game and seeds and roots. Thinly settled - tribues include Achumawi and Atsugewi.
Conquistadores
Northeastern Indian Culture
Caste
Democracy
13. Created Great Wall of China - use of currency - weight and measure standardized - tomb of terra - cotta army
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Buddhism
The Qin Dynasty
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
14. One of most popular in CA - from Pacific Coast to Sierra nevada. Earth covered homes - in Sierra Nevada houses were three or four layers of bark. Homes near coast were interlocking poles of willow or driftwood. Bunchess of grass or reeds tied in rows
Ulysses S. Grant
Miwok
18th Century
Phoenicians
15. General who led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Relocation Camp
Ulysses S. Grant
16. Campaign to encourage women to sek work in wartime industrial plants
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17. 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
The New deal Included
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
Copernicus
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
18. Mesopotamian Civilization Period
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
1990
3500 - 3000 BC
End of Reconstruction
19. Defined the Northwest Territory and the way the US would be set up
CA state bird
Northwest Ordinance
The Draft
Miranda vs Arizona - 1966
20. A nickname for the Southern part of San Francisco Bay Area in the northern California - originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers - but eventually referring to the concentration of all types of high - tech
Silicon Valley
Buddhism
Reserved Powers
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
21. Belief in reincarnation - belief that through meditation one can frind freedom from suffering and enter Nirvana - respect for all living creatures
Achumawi
Buddhism
Blockade Southern ports
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
22. Merchants and manufacturers found themselves suddenly exposed to intense competition for those of eastern cities - loss of jobs with railroad done
Made Indians citizens of Mexico
Initiative
Ferdinand Magellan
Completion of the Railroad in California
23. An early colonial attempt at representative self - government (1619) - first legislative assembly of the colonies
Primary purpose of the Mission System
House of Burgesses
O'Connor - Scalia - Kennedy
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
24. Annual migration - in spring gathered budding plans and small game. Harvested dried pipening cactus fruites for winter storage. Moved to higher elevations in August - harvested acorns and pinon nuts before returning to winter villages.
1989
George Washington
Kumeyaay
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
25. An economic system in which workers control the means of production and share in the profits for their labors
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
Three original state constitutions required
Socialism
Intolerable Acts
26. Agean civilization developed a flourishing culture as a direct result of trade and commerce on the Aegean Sea
Manifest Destiny
Missouri Compromise
John Adams
Mycenaeans
27. Contributed to the growth of slavery
John Adams
Cotton
Greeks
17th Amendment
28. Powers set aside for state governments
Parliment Repealed the Act
Positive result of the war in 1812
Reserved Powers
Characteristics of the European Renissance
29. 1929
Advances in transportation and communication
Great Depression Began
1989
Antietam
30. Supplemented their hunting with agrictulre. Grew corn - beans and pumpkins in fertile flood plains. Traded with many tribes - tribes include (Quechan (Yuma) Halchidhoma - Mohave.
Federalism
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Colorado River Indian Culture
The New Nationalism - 1816 - 1823
31. One of the first two political parties in the United States - led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; opposed the Federalist party and was strongly in favor of individual rights
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Rancho System
Virginia
Democratic - Republican Party
32. First European explorer to reach Inida by sea
Vasco da Gama
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Puritan New England
The Missouri Compromise
33. 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
Pardon of Nixon
Tubatulabl
Primary purpose of the Mission System
Aqueduct
34. Enlightenment concepts such as natural law and self - determination - dissolving allegiances to the British crown - clear listing of the colonies - reasons for rebellion
WWI Began
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Circumnavigate
Principle of Dec. of Independence
35. Responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Principle of Dec. of Independence
The Gentleman's Agreement - 1907
Maya
36. Congressional (Radical) plan emphasized the use of military force in treating the South like a conquered territory (congress won over presidential plan)
Renaissance
Reconstruction of the South
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Serf
37. Law of supply and demand
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
Economics
Ten Percent Plan
CA Indians prior to European contact
38. European settlers to the New World in the 16th & 17th Century often failed to recognize the
Civil War - North Power
Diversity of Native Americans
Rancheros
New Frontier Pledge
39. The first constitution of the United States of America
Discover westward route to Asia
American Revolution Chronological Order
Articles of Confederation
Gasoline - Tobacco - Medicare
40. The 1803 purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson that essentially doubled the United States territory
Sierra Nevada
Laws Dealing with Industrialization
Louisiana Purchase
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
41. A polytheistic society located in Central America that made great advances in science and mathematics - but collapsed due to unknown causes
Socialism
Protect sovereignty of the states
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Maya Indians
42. Epics of Illiad and Odyssey come from
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Greece
British Army marches on Concord and Lexington
Articles of Confederation
43. Strength of foreign policy during the early national period
Weak
Billeting Act of 1765
Dust Bowl Regugees of 1930's
Immigration Reform Act 1965
44. Vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts
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45. Not a feature of ancient Inida
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Cahuilla
Fluid social structure
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
46. Isolating the South
Union Strategy
End of Reconstruction
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Buddhism
47. Feather art in the form of a war bonnet
Thomas Paine
Fief
Blackfoot
Antifederalists
48. First declaration of self - government in the new world
Mechanisms by which Islam has spread throughout history
Mayflower Compact
Massachusettes Bay
Center region of US (minus texas)
49. 1778 - Brought needed men - equipment and money to American cause
The French Alliance
26th Amendment
Philip IV
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
50. Central Valley and the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada
Dust Bowl Regugees of 1930's
Preamble
End of Reconstruction
Majority of native Californians lived in or near
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