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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Hernando Cortes
Yorktown
Samuel de Champlain
sacred expedition
2. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Olmec Empire
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
The Declaration of Independence
Exeter Compact
3. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Pilgrims
rights of the federal government
Great Awakening
Compromise of 1850
4. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Proclamation of 1763
Europeans in the New World
Proposition 13
Revolutionary War
5. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Puritans
William Penn
Ten Percent Plan
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
6. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Exeter Compact
November 1849
Commodore Sloat
7. 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
Silicon Valley
forty - niners
Chinese
nullification
8. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
November 1849
Anasazi culture
Olmec Empire
Democratic Republicans
9. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
2002
aeorspace industry
Compromise of 1850
Balboa
10. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
The Continental Divide
Maryland
Olmec Empire
Balboa
11. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
The Industrial Era of the United States
Intolerable Acts of 1774
legislative branch
Thirteenth Amendment
12. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
The Great Basin
Maryland
General Stockton
merchant Sam Brannon
13. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Hernando Cortes
anti - federalists
black codes
Constitutional Convention
14. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Georgia
The Aztec Empire
separation of powers
Sebastian Cermeno
15. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Jacques Cartier
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Important Battles of the Revolution
Olmec Empire
16. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Jose Figueroa
Major battles of the Civil War
California
Appomattox Court
17. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Juan Cabrillo
Progressives
Owens River
18. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Europeans in the New World
judicial branch
Bill of Rights
Mexican - American War
19. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Mississippian culture
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Hopewell people
Pony Express
20. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Appomattox Court
Juan Cabrillo
presidios
Important Battles of the Revolution
21. 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
Mexican American War
Exeter Compact
initiative
water
22. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
black codes
secession
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
23. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
The Inca Empire
Sebastian Cermeno
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Jamestown
24. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
The Industrial Era of the United States
Panama Canal
Chinese
25. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Mississippian culture
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Georgia
Central Valley
26. Southern California native american tribes
The Aztec Empire
issue of representation under the Constitution
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
27. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
War of 1812
Samuel de Champlain
Mississippian culture
Quartering Act
28. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Samuel de Champlain
separation of powers
French and Indian War
The southeastern Coastal Plain
29. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Hopewell people
Amerindians
merchant Sam Brannon
Magnuson Act of 1943
30. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Europeans in the New World
The Industrial Era of the United States
Gold
Russians
31. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Emanciptation Proclomation
Confederacy advanage
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
issue of representation under the Constitution
32. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
rights of the federal government
tourism
The Aztec Empire
Irish
33. 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
railroad
Hernando Cortes
Puritans
34. 1776 Written by Thomas Jefferson - Based on the ideas of English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke - In Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government' (1690) - he set forth basic ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
issue of representation under the Constitution
the conquistadores
The Declaration of Independence
John C. Fremont
35. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
squatters
Yorktown
Samuel de Champlain
Magnuson Act of 1943
36. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
Hernando Cortes
The Mississippi River
initiative
37. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Trenton
rancho system
Jose de Galves
38. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Salton Sea
Henry Hudson
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
water
39. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Rodney Case
rights of the federal government
French and Indian War
40. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Modoc War
sacred expedition
Dust Bowl
Anasazi culture
41. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
secession
black codes
42. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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43. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
Emanciptation Proclomation
General Stockton and General Kearney
issue of representation under the Constitution
44. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Stamp Tax
Land Commission
aeorspace industry
Proposition 13
45. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
November 1849
Land Commission
Owens River
England and the colonies: differences
46. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
Mexicans
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Chronological order of the colonies
entertainment
47. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
missions
Sierra Nevadas
Radical Republicans
Proposition 13
48. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Sierra Nevadas
Hernando Cortes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Emanciptation Proclomation
49. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
missions
Francisco Pizarro
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
judicial branch
50. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
how Union defeated Confederates
Mayflower Compact
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
The Great Basin