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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. Strength of foreign policy during the early national period
Weak
The Great Basin
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
2. Franklin Roosevelt initiated The New Deal
Massachusetts
Influenced by christianity
1932 - 1938
1979 - 1981
3. 1837 Added potential slave territory to the United States
The Annexation of Texas
Constituion Did (four things)
Discover westward route to Asia
Juan Cabrillo
4. Spanish exploreres that sought the riches of Central and South America - establishing colonies along the way
Battle of Gettysburg
Ignored by European Invaders
Egyptians
Conquistadores
5. 1848 - California - parts of the southwest were gained
Mexican American War
Puritan
Great Compromise
1763-1776 Tension Built between America and England
6. Soviets invade Afghanistan
Missouri Compromise
France
Thomas Paine
1979
7. Sanctification of knighthood - the sacking of Constantinople and other parts of Asia minor - the waning of the practice of alchemy as a medicine
Atsugewi
Significant major development in American Revolution
Influenced by christianity
Elastic Clause of the Constitution
8. Barbed wire
France
Washington
Economic development of American west during 19th century
Order of Acts
9. Galileo
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Serf
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
American civilizations in chronological order
10. The trade - union movement - government protection of management through the use of court injunctions - the growth of suburbs - the dehumanizing aspects of technological innovations
Influence of Islamic scholarship development of European civilization during the middle ages
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
11. Interment camps that held people of Japanese descent durin World War II
Relocation Camp
The Steam Engine
Contributed to dramatic population increase in CA
Fall of rome
12. Hinduism strongly influenced ancient indian civilation through
Nile Valley (3000 BC)
Completion of the Railroad in California
Relations among social groups
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
13. Soviet Union was desolved in
1991
1861 - 1865
Mycenaeans
Mexican American War
14. This ideology encouraged U.S. expansion to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
Preamble
Fall of rome
1789
15. Initial control of Mississippi River - Louisiana Territory - Great Lakes - Canada
France
Discover westward route to Asia
1990
Union Strategy
16. Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - increase in international trade and commerce - end of the Greek city - state system as a major political setting
Kush
Hellenistic age
American Revolution Chronological Order
Cherokee and Iroquois Art
17. A branch of the system of checks and balances that interprets Congressional laws
CA state freshwater fish
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Religious book of Islam
Judicial Branch
18. Mesopotamian Civilization Period
3500 - 3000 BC
Bowl and Basket Weaving
WWI Began
The Jamestown Colony
19. The Savings and Loan bankruptcies resulted in massive federal intervention to cover
300 Billion Dollars
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Southern Indian Culture
20. Imperial Valley water flow from Colorado River - tried to increase water flow and the flood created the
Northwest Ordinance
Northwestern Indian Culture
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
Salton sea
21. An early society in which men hunted for meat and women gathered more readily available food
Associated with the industrialization of the United States
Hunter/Gatherer Societies
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Renaissance
22. The start and end of the Age of Discovery
1450-1763
26th Amendment
Angel Island
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
23. Philosopher - inventor - politician who had great influence over many years
Benjamin Franklin
Chinese Confucian Morality
Tongva (Gabrielino)
Hupa
24. An initial rule in the constituion stating that in state population counts - each slave would count for three - fifths of one person
Amerindians
Economics
18th Century
Three - Fifths Compromise
25. Stamp - Declatory - Townshend - Boston Massacre
Maya Indians
The counter - Reformation
Reason for Civil War
Order of Acts
26. Residents of the rancho system in California just before the Mexican - American War - mainly comprised of Mexican citizen who idetified more as Californios than Mesicans
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
Ferdinand Magellan
Major Popluation Groups
Californios
27. The branch of the system of checks and balances that makes Congressional laws
Legislative Branch
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Manifest Destiny
Barter
28. Northerners who went South to assist in Reconstruction
Great Depression Began
Carpetbaggers
Kumeyaay
Mosiac Law
29. Iranian Hostage Situation Years
Slavery
1979 - 1981
American Revolution Chronological Order
Order of Acts
30. European settlers to the New World in the 16th & 17th Century often failed to recognize the
1989
Articles of Confederation
Vasco da Gama
Diversity of Native Americans
31. Leadership - territory
CA Indians prior to European contact
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
Civil war - South Power
Search of a Sea route to Asia
32. Establishment of a colony to create a Bible commonwealth
Beaver
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Land Commission
Massachusettes Bay
33. Distinct social class - elite were wealthy individuals and headmen Marriage only in same class.
Tongva (Gabrielino)
Law of Supply and Demand
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
Tubatulabl
34. A religious beleif in which - after physical death - a rebirth in another body occurs - a central tenet of Hinduism - among other religions
Casues of Depression
Military Reconstruction Acts
Manifest Destiny
Reincarnation
35. Power to veto specific sections of a spending bill
Buddhism
Governor of CA has this right - but President of US does not
Richmond
Northwestern Indian Culture
36. Fished on canoe shaped rafts - relied heavily on salmon and acorns. Haproons and dragnets to fish. Groves of lvalley oaks - great amounts of acorns for thick suop. San Joaquin Valley - wetlands - birds - duck - geese - elk - antelope.
Chickamauga
Justinian Code
Yokuts
Scalawags
37. John F. Kennedy's Pledge was to resolve domestic and cold war problems - expand the Space Program and Civil Rights legislation
Barter
New Frontier Pledge
Octopus
Northwest Ordinance
38. The idea that political authority belongs to the people
Justinian Code
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Popular Sovereignty
Pardon of Nixon
39. Hydraulic mining
Democratic - Republicans
Aqueduct
War of 1812
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
40. Largest desert in Calfornia
1991 - 1992
Mojave Desert
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
WPA (Works Projects Administration)
41. 1820 Limited the spread of slavery
The Missouri Compromise
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Geographical factors that accounted for emergence of Byzantium as a powerful trading empire
Why French aidid the English during American Revolution
42. Enacted the 'malice' standard allowed free reporting
Diversity of Native Americans
San Francisco to Lake Tahoe Geographical Features
War of 1812
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
43. Agean civilization developed a flourishing culture as a direct result of trade and commerce on the Aegean Sea
Referendum
Mycenaeans
Setback at the end of Reconstruction
Aqueduct
44. (1765) The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies - it required that all newspapers - pamphlets - legal documents - commercial bills - advertisements - and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The act was denounced in the
British Army marches on Concord and Lexington
Stamp Act
Democracy
Renaissance
45. Europeans and Africans
Sierra Nevada
Major Popluation Groups
Puritan
Founded as a result of religious persecution
46. Ideals of social contract borrowed heavily from John Locke
Antietam Battle
Declaration of Independence
Alchemy
Positive result of the war in 1812
47. Greatest contribution of ancient Hebrew civilation to modern western civilation
Declaration of Independence - July 4th 1776
1979
Mosiac Law
Presidio
48. British colony founded by puritans seeking to create a new - pure church in the americas
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
Northeastern Indian Culture
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Massachusetts
49. Greatest effect on the growing political - economic and social cohesion of the US during the last half of the 19th century
Bicarmeral
Greeks
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS INDLUENCE ON INCA CIVILIZATIONS BETWEN 11TH AND 15TH CENTURIES
Advances in transportation and communication
50. Capitalism
Reconstruction of the South
Tea Act
Buddhism
Economic system facilitates Darwinism