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CSET Multiple Subjects: History And Social Science Vocab
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1. A term used to describe the Central Pacifics Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce
Bushido
The French Alliance
Chandragupta Maurya
Octopus
2. A religious beleif in which - after physical death - a rebirth in another body occurs - a central tenet of Hinduism - among other religions
First Battle of Bull Run
Egypt and Mesopatamia
Reincarnation
Middle Colonies
3. General who led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
Rancho System
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
The Legal code of france
4. Invention that launched the industrial age
Amendment to the Constituion Requires
Aircraft industry/WWII
The Steam Engine
Kumeyaay
5. Philosopher - inventor - politician who had great influence over many years
Tea Act
Benjamin Franklin
Pueblos
18th Century
6. Growth of monopolies - unequal distribution of income - and overspeculation in the stock market
Cesar Chavez - Political reforms in
Yurok Indians
Casues of Depression
California Geographic Features
7. (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
Maya Indians
Owens Valley Paiute
Boston Tea Party
Alchemy
8. Suprmeme court outlawed racial segragation - overrulled seperate but equal.
Brown vs Board of Education - 1954
Scientist that supported heliocentric (sun centered) theory of solar system
Discover westward route to Asia
Justinian Code
9. Abundant natural resources - access to Great Lakes and ports of foreign shipments - availability of cheap labor
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
The French Indian War
Hamilton - Jay and Madison
Thomas Jefferson
10. Gain permanent access to the Mediterranean Sea
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11. Enacted the 'malice' standard allowed free reporting
Oil Diplomacy
New York Times co. vs Sullivan - 1964
(1991-1992) Souter and Thomas
Seperate but Equal
12. Created the first written philosophy
Plato
Ferdinand Magellan
Massachusettes Bay
Philip IV
13. Political party that wanted close ties with England
Mono Lake
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Tories
Articles of Confederation
14. Colonial Armies were underequipped - widespread opposition to fixed military terms
Aztec
First Battle of Bull Run
Latino political power grew largely in 1990
Hindered Military Effectiveness
15. A statute or amendment that has passed the state legislature - which is then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate - allows the California electorate to rescind legislatin that has already become law
McCullough vs Maryland - 1819
Decline of the Roman empire
Referendum
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls
16. Mississipppi River
Order of Acts
Octopus
Major military strategy of North based on dividing the south
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
17. Kushite Religion - Egyptian Religion
Manors
Chickamauga
China
Polytheistic
18. Impeached for opposing Radical Reconstruction
WWI Began
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
President Johnson
The Jamestown Colony
19. Union used Naval force most effectively to
Yokuts
US Constitution differed from Articles of Confederation
Article of Confederation Weaknesses
Blockade Southern ports
20. President Lincoln realized the war would be long and hard
First Battle of Bull Run
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
The Colorado River
Juan Cabrillo
21. Free market capitalism
Laissez - Faire
No taxation without representation
Feudalism - Europe Middle Ages Hiearchial Structure
The Steam Engine
22. Towns based around California's missions and presidios - built around a church and a town square
Democracy
The Qin Dynasty
Chumas
Pueblos
23. Best known as CA basketmakers - twined and coilded ware in many shapes. Otlined with brightly colored feathers - plumes - beads - and shells.
Shogun
Greeks
Pomo
Spain - France - England - Portugal - Netherlands
24. Establishment of a colony to create a Bible commonwealth
Massachusettes Bay
300 Billion Dollars
Islam
Not a feature of European society under feudalism
25. Admistration supported massive build up of the defense program
Thomas Paine
Popular Sovereignty
Ronald Reagan
Transcontinental Railroad
26. Soviets invade Afghanistan
President Johnson
Mexican American War
1979
WWI Began
27. Isolating the South
British Army marches on Concord and Lexington
Economics
Socialism
Union Strategy
28. Ended Feb 2 - 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Kush
Missouri Compromise
European Society under feudalism
Mexican American War
29. Shipbuilding and Commerce
1989
Taoism
The French Alliance
New England Colonies
30. Spanish exploreres that sought the riches of Central and South America - establishing colonies along the way
United States and CA governments similar
Conquistadores
Magna Carta
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
31. Forbade import of rum - duty on molasses - wines - silks - coffee and number of luxury items
Weak
Sugar Act of 1764
Copernicus
Mercantilism
32. A land allotment system defined by a few large landowners and many landless workers
Industry most damaged by spending cutbacks in 1970
Major Popluation Groups
Rancho System
Hiram Johnson as governor of CA - progessive movement failed to ahceive these reforms
33. Tobacco - cotton and slavery
Southern Colonies
Colorado River Indian Culture
The Mayflower Compact
Russia - China
34. Credited with first implementation of democracy into government (citizens held public meetings - pass law - choose officials) No slaves - women or foreigners
Capitalism
Primary factor of collapse of Aztec and Inca Empires
Greeks
Islam
35. A minor but influential political party int he pre - Civil War period that opposed the extention of slavery into the western territories
2nd & 3rd Amendment
Free - soliders
President Johnson
European Society under feudalism
36. Most closely associated with the development of a theocracy in America
Puritan
Aircraft industry/WWII
1991 - 1992
Plato
37. Church became the preserver of civilization in both political and religious life
Christianity - Buddhism - and Islam
Vasco da Gama
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
Ferdinand Magellan
38. Trade gap widened. Japan and Germany surpassed the U.S. in automobiles and airlines
Economic system facilitates Darwinism
The federal deficit escalated dramatically in the 1980s and threatened the economic stability of the U.S. What 2 things contributed to this?
Octopus
Islam
39. An informal system of the exchange of goods and services among individuals
Robert E. Lee
Completion of the Railroad in California
Robert E. Lee surrendered because...
Barter
40. Grapes of Wrath
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41. Texas annexed to the United States
'We can do it' poster of a woman
Economics
Aids to settlement of the West
1837
42. Federalist - Democratic - Whig - Republican
Kumeyaay
Central focus of lewis and clark expedition
Townshend Acts
Emergence of National Parties in US
43. The French threatened not only the British Empire - but the American colonists for holding the Mississippi Valley - Franch could...
Fall of rome
Northeast industrial expansion before Civil War
Check their Westward Expansion
Reconstruction
44. 1) Energy Crisis 2) Israel and Egypt signed historic peace treaty - but key problems were left unsolved. 3) Need for alternate sources of energy 4) Detente with Russia suffered serious setbacks 5) Inflation
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45. 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
Casues of Depression
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
CA state freshwater fish
Ten Percent Plan
46. A process that gives individual citizens - or groups of citizens - the power to place a proposed law on the ballot
Initiative
Main immigrants to US from 1840 - 1880
Reserved Powers
Northwestern Indian Culture
47. Attempt to change base metals into gold
California's Mission System
Arab - Isreali War (1974)
Japan
Alchemy
48. Sought to control colonial trade because it did not want competition with it's own manufacturers
Emancipation Proclamation
Robber Baron
Great Britain
Blockade Southern ports
49. Hydraulic mining
Europe referred to as Christendom during Middle Ages
Ten Percent Plan
Mining practice that had the greatest negative impact on both farmers and steamboat companies
Islam
50. Capitol of the North
Agriculture
Washington
Work on the Transcontinental Railroad
American Revolution Chronological Order