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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. An 1845 phrase encapsulating the American version of the Western Expansion
Manifest Destiny
Hamilton's Financial Plan Parties
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
Relocation Camp
2. Initial control of Mississippi River - Louisiana Territory - Great Lakes - Canada
France
Tongva (Gabrielino)
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Owens Valley Paiute
3. Division of defined classes - merchant middle class
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Europe
Circumnavigate
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
Buddhism
4. Absolutism
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5. Economic philosophy espoused by Karl Marx that distributes wealth to the workers that produce it
Gideon vs Wainwright - 1963
Dred Scott vs Sanford - 1857
Octopus
Socialism
6. Federal troops were withdrawn from the South - ending Reconstruction
Articles of confederation designed to
The Mayflower Compact
Direct result of the contested presidentelection of 1876
Diversity of Native Americans
7. The United States obtained posession of this region in an 1846 treaty with Great Britian
Center region of US (minus texas)
President Johnson
Great Awakening
Primary reason for dramatic Mexican population increase in CA
8. Prior to Jim Crow Laws - prior to reconstruction
Postclassic period (800 AD)
Black Code Laws
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
WWI Began
9. Farthest north the confederates were able to get - called the 'High water mark of confederacy'
The Draft
Gettysburg
Manifest Destiny
The Legal code of france
10. Constitutes legitimate government and under what conditions men were justified in resorting to armed revolution to change it
Declaration of Independence - July 4th 1776
The Mayflower Compact
Scientific Revolution in Pre - Modern Europe
Capitalism
11. Eastern European Communism collapsed - Hussein invaded Kuwait
1990
WWI Began
The Mexican War
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
12. Ancient Civiliation that Confucianism originated
Battle of Gettysburg
Sugar Plantations in the West Indies
China
Middle Colonies
13. AD 250 - 900
Scalawags
Maya
Blackfoot
300 Billion Dollars
14. Natural lake that has been threatened by the water needs of L.A.
Hindered Military Effectiveness
Mono Lake
Southern Colonies
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
15. 1837 Added potential slave territory to the United States
26th Amendment
The Annexation of Texas
Chandragupta Maurya
Great Awakening
16. Placed limitations on the Crown
Secession
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
Tongva (Gabrielino)
17. Most closely associated with the development of a theocracy in America
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
Casues of Depression
Northwest Ordinance
Puritan
18. Voyage of exploration commanded by John Cabot - Jacques Cartier - and Henry Hudson
Chavin
Feudalism
Discover westward route to Asia
Appomatix Courthouse
19. An initial rule in the constituion stating that in state population counts - each slave would count for three - fifths of one person
Three - Fifths Compromise
Transcontinental Railroad
Characteristics of the European Renissance
Maidu
20. A proclamation made by President Lincoln in1863 freeing all slaves in regions still fighting against the Union
Atsugewi
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Aided in Industrial Growth of America
Emancipation Proclamation
21. Explored Florida in 1513 - claimed area for spain
Mono Lake
Ponce de Leon
Northwest Ordinance
Mercantilism
22. The Tianament Square pro - democracy movement in China occurred in
1989
Manifest Destiny
Hamilton's Financial Plan Parties
Spanish American War
23. Driving force of explorations of Americas
Search of a Sea route to Asia
Popular Sovereignty
Conquistadores
Daniel Shays
24. 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
Gettysburg
Feudalism
Californios
Communism
25. Hydraulic mining
Pilgrims
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
China
Manifest Destiny
26. Conflicting interest of small vs large states
Birth oF Civilization atributed to
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Constitutional Convention Major Issue
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
27. Homestead Act (1862); Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Federalism practiced in early Republic
Advances in transportation and communication
Aids to settlement of the West
Hamilton's Financial Plan Parties
28. Theocracy - a governemtn by ecclesiastical authorities - civil authority residing with clergy.
Secession
Puritan New England
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Free - soliders
29. Tobacco - cotton and slavery
The Mayflower Compact
The Rise of the New West created...
Southern Colonies
Olmec
30. California's two major mountain ranges are the Coast Ranges and...
Buddhism
Sierra Nevada
Egypt and Mesopatamia
Reconstruction of the South
31. ...his troops were trapped by Grant's Army
1989
CA state bird
1991
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
32. Explored area that was to become the southwest of US (1540)
Yurok Indians
Francisco de Coronado
The Great Basin
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
33. (1770) British troops fire on crowd of Bostonians
Greece
Ronald Reagan
Boston Massacre
1989
34. 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
Check and Balances
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Magna Carta
California Geographic Features
35. Development of new weaving and ironworking techniques - vast expansion and improvement in the roads and waterways - greatly increased prosperity and political power for middle class
Renaissance
House of Burgesses
Blockade Southern ports
Products of the Industrial Revolution
36. 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
Egypt and Mesopatamia
Marbury vs Madison - 1803
Mercantilism
Silicon Valley
37. 1200-400BC
Maya
Union Advantage
Olmec
Caucus (political system)
38. British reaction to the Boston Tea Party - including more rigid restrictions on colonial town meetins and other harsh penalties
Pilgrims
1990
House of Burgesses
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
39. Solved the problem of isolation in California 1969
Sale of indulgences
Jimmy Carter's Adminitration Problems
Transcontinental Railroad
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
40. Indus River played a central part in this civilizations history
Presidio
Southern Indian Culture
Russia's desire to expand in the direction of the Ottoman Empire
India
41. 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
Pilgrims
Code of Hammurabi
Three - Fifths Compromise
'We can do it' poster of a woman
42. Merchants and manufacturers found themselves suddenly exposed to intense competition for those of eastern cities - loss of jobs with railroad done
Protect sovereignty of the states
Hamilton's Financial Plan Parties
Completion of the Railroad in California
Sumerians
43. China's first dynasty
Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin
Xia
The New deal Included
44. The concept of religious freedom
Fostered Expansion of Industry
Mojave Desert
Fundamental concept of Magna Carta in American law
Ignored by European Invaders
45. Gave 18 year olds the right to vote
Atsugewi
26th Amendment
Monotheism
Buddhism
46. That self - given right of seven states to the lower South to leave the Union is they so desired
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
Secession
Andrew Jackson
Hupa
47. Temprary resolution to the free/slave state controversey
GEOGRAPHICAL SETTINGS OF THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA
Influenced by christianity
Gold rush created statehood - impacted landscape of US because
Development of early Mesopotamia Civilizations
48. Hieroglyphics
Egyptians
CA state tree
True of Andrew Johnson's presidency during reconstruction
Federalism practiced in early Republic
49. 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.
Maidu
18th Century
Richmond
Russia - China
50. River valley villages - families owned their hunting and fishing ground - tobacco plots and oak trees. Real estate passed on through the males. Money was clamshell disks and dentalia.
Reganomics
Feudalism in the early Middle Ages
Thomas Jefferson
Shasta