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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
aeorspace industry
Panama Canal
Gold
2. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Amendments
Ten Percent Plan
'strict construction'
manifest destiny
3. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
Jose Figueroa
Bill of Rights
French and Indian War
forty - niners
4. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Japanese
apparel industry
Jacques Cartier
Chinese
5. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Mt. Whitney
Declaration of Independence
rancho system
black codes
6. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Trenton
Hopewell people
Angel Island
Stamp Tax
7. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Gentleman's Agreement
secession
Appomattox Court
Amendments
8. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
decline of the Mayan civlization
Confederacy advanage
Bear Flag Revolt
Commodore Sloat
9. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
black codes
Russians
manifest destiny
acorns
10. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Emanciptation Proclomation
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Mono Lake
11. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
railroad
Johann Sutter
Exeter Compact
12. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
squatters
Compromise of 1850
Watts Riots
13. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Workingmen's Party
Mexican Independence
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mexicans
14. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
Gold
forty - niners
initiative
William Penn
15. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
pueblos
manifest destiny
Revolutionary War
tourism
16. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
federalism
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
17. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Europeans in the New World: Spain
executive branch
Bear Flag Revolt
Irish
18. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
forty - niners
Confederacy advanage
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
19. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
The Aztec Empire
Germans
Intolerable Acts of 1774
separation of powers
20. Lincoln's vice president became president
Andrew Johnson
issue of representation under the Constitution
Francisco Montejo
War of 1812
21. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
initiative
Constitution
Jamestown
Sebastian Vicaino
22. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Compromise of 1850
acorns
The Great Basin
Revolutionary War
23. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Depression of 1870
referendum
William Penn
'strict construction'
24. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
Yorktown
'strict construction'
acorns
25. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Mexican American War
nullification
Sugar Act
Bear Flag Revolt
26. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Prevailing Westerlies
Proposition 13
rancho system
The Industrial Era of the United States
27. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Emanciptation Proclomation
Gold
presidios
Germans
28. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
decline of the Mayan civlization
The Inca Empire
Magnuson Act of 1943
Mexican Independence
29. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
hydraulic mining -
initiative
New Government
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
30. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Mono Lake
Europeans in the New World: Britain
presidios
31. People who took land from the original Californios
Maryland
railroad
Hopewell people
squatters
32. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
The Continental Divide
merchant Sam Brannon
the Oregon Territory
Sebastian Cermeno
33. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Bill of Rights
Mexican American War
Chronological order of the colonies
Olmec Empire
34. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
issue of representation under the Constitution
Modoc War
Bill of Rights
Europeans in the New World
35. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Salton Sea
Bear Flag Revolt
England and the colonies: similarities
November 1849
36. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad
Lewis and Clark
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Francisco Pizarro
hydraulic mining -
37. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states
Modoc War
Constitution
Railroad Act of 1864
internment camps
38. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Commodore Sloat
39. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Magnuson Act of 1943
Federalist Party
Olmec Empire
Railroad Act of 1864
40. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Irish
Sebastian Vicaino
Francisco Pizarro
41. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
The Great Basin
decline of the Mayan civlization
Important Battles of the Revolution
Intolerable Acts of 1774
42. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Europeans in the New World
Henry Hudson
Trenton
Sierra Nevadas
43. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
presidios
California Alien Land Act
Mexican American War
The Continental Divide
44. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Prevailing Westerlies
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mississippian culture
The Continental Divide
45. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
free - soil movement
Confederacy advanage
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
how Union defeated Confederates
46. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
Europeans in the New World: France
Francisco Pizarro
Bill of Rights
47. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
entertainment
Important Battles of the Revolution
anti - federalists
Rhode Island
48. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
Mississippian culture
Panama Canal
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
referendum
49. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Amendments
Central Valley Project
the conquistadores
50. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
The Inca Empire
California
Lewis and Clark
Mayflower Compact