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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
Sierra Nevadas
Jamestown
manifest destiny
2. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Watts Riots
tourism
merchant Sam Brannon
Okies
3. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Major battles of the Civil War
Declaration of Independence
Hernando Cortes
War of 1812
4. In the eastern region of the United States
Quartering Act
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Continental Divide
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
5. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Europeans in the New World
missions
Commodore Sloat
6. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Second Constitutional Congress
The Gulf Stream
Democratic Republicans
7. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
executive branch
Quartering Act
Japanese
Immigration Act of 1965
8. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Jose Figueroa
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Anasazi culture
9. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Olmec Empire
Magnuson Act of 1943
Compromise of 1850
First Continental Congress
10. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
The Gulf Stream
Thirteenth Amendment
separation of powers
Articles of Confederation
11. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
free - soil movement
The Gulf Stream
Mexican American War
Hernando Cortes
12. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
Articles of Confederation
Railroad Act of 1864
Jose de Galves
railroad
13. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
the Oregon Territory
manifest destiny
separation of powers
Samuel de Champlain
14. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Amerindians
Louisiana Purchase
merchant Sam Brannon
judicial branch
15. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
manifest destiny
Three - Fifths Compromise
Father Fermin Lausen
16. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
General Stockton
Gentleman's Agreement
Olmec Empire
17. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
The Appalachian Mountains
General Stockton and General Kearney
Hopewell people
18. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Mexicans
executive branch
Connecticut Commonwealth
War of 1812
19. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed
Chronological order of the colonies
Pony Express
black codes
Gentleman's Agreement
20. Central California native American tribes
Balboa
entertainment
Revolutionary War
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
21. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
Revolutionary War
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Federalist Party
Battle of Gettysberg
22. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
The Inca Empire
Hiram Johnson
Sugar Act
Election of 1876
23. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Quartering Act
forty - niners
rights of the federal government
Declaration of Independence
24. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Proclamation of 1763
Whig Party
missions
25. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Articles of Confederation
Jose de Galves
Francisco Pizarro
Sebastian Cermeno
26. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Gold
The Gulf Stream
Europeans in the New World
Battle of Gettysberg
27. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
merchant Sam Brannon
Samuel de Champlain
presidios
England and the colonies: similarities
28. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Jacques Cartier
apparel industry
Lewis and Clark
Sierra Nevadas
29. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
Federalist Papers
Hiram Johnson
Europeans in the New World
30. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
Land Commission
Death Valley
Mono Lake
31. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Okies
California
aeorspace industry
Modoc War
32. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Tea Act of 1773
General Stockton
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
California Alien Land Act
33. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Father Fermin Lausen
Gold
judicial branch
Radical Republicans
34. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
The Declaration of Independence
Francisco Pizarro
recall
Exeter Compact
35. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
Juan Cabrillo
Proclamation of 1763
Bear Flag Revolt
acorns
36. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
loose construction
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Mexican Independence
War of 1812
37. An era fueled by availabliity of a cheap labor pool in the form of recent immigrants. Newly built factories attracted even more immigrants to the states
Francisco Montejo
The Industrial Era of the United States
Compromise of 1850
Important Battles of the Revolution
38. 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
Mexican - American War
Hernando Cortes
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
England and the colonies: differences
39. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
acorns
Central Pacific Railroad
40. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi
England and the colonies: differences
Russians
manifest destiny
Jacques Cartier
41. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Lewis and Clark
Sebastian Cermeno
Balboa
42. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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43. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
sacred expedition
Immigration Act of 1965
Delaware
The southeastern Coastal Plain
44. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Union advantage
Death Valley
Maryland
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
45. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese
southern anad eastern European
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
46. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Louisiana Purchase
England and the colonies: similarities
Death Valley
Jamestown
47. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Confederacy advanage
Chronological order of the colonies
Prevailing Westerlies
Jacques Cartier
48. Drains the interior of the United States
California
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Land Commission
The Mississippi River
49. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
The Mississippi River
Georgia
Delaware
Trenton
50. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
melting pot
loose construction
The Continental Divide
Delaware