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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. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Hiram Johnson
Henry Hudson
how Union defeated Confederates
The Aztec Empire
2. Lincoln's vice president became president
Compromise of 1850
Great Awakening
Andrew Johnson
Mexican - American War
3. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
Uncle Tom's Cabin
the Great Compromise
Juan Cabrillo
4. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
War of 1812
referendum
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
5. 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
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Proclamation of 1763
railroad
The Appalachian Mountains
6. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
The Continental Divide
Balboa
First Continental Congress
legislative branch
7. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Francisco Montejo
Central Valley Project
The Great Basin
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
8. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
New Government
Battle of Gettysberg
federalism
Pony Express
9. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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10. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Sir Francis Drake
black codes
John C. Fremont
General Stockton and General Kearney
11. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
entertainment
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Europeans in the New World: France
Toltecs
12. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Germans
Toltecs
Sebastian Vicaino
13. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
rights of states
Juan Cabrillo
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Death Valley
14. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
Bear Flag Revolt
Confederacy advanage
Pueblo Indians
Rodney Case
15. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Central Valley Project
Sir Francis Drake
Gentleman's Agreement
John C. Fremont
16. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Samuel de Champlain
acorns
First Continental Congress
Hernando Cortes
17. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
The Appalachian Mountains
Tea Act of 1773
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Emanciptation Proclomation
18. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
Puritans
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Mt. Whitney
19. 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 Continental Divide
Bear Flag Revolt
England and the colonies: differences
French and Indian War
20. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Rodney Case
Transcontinental Railroad
Pony Express
tourism
21. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Hernando Cortes
England and the colonies: similarities
Death Valley
Mayflower Compact
22. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Europeans in the New World: Britain
initiative
the Great Compromise
Owens River
23. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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24. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
French and Indian War
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Jacques Cartier
Railroad Act of 1864
25. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
how Union defeated Confederates
the Oregon Territory
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Gold
26. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
internment camps
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
27. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
issue of representation under the Constitution
Railroad Act of 1864
General Stockton and General Kearney
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
28. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
missions
French and Indian War
Bill of Rights
Hiram Johnson
29. Republican Rutherford Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden run for President. Hayes promises to end the Reconstruction and allows Southern staets to establish the black codes. Caused the end of the Reconstruction in 1877
Election of 1876
Mono Lake
Hiram Johnson
The Declaration of Independence
30. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Central Valley
Bill of Rights
railroad
Constitution
31. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
hydraulic mining -
'strict construction'
Chinese
California
32. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Thirteenth Amendment
Delaware
Three - Fifths Compromise
tule
33. 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
Ten Percent Plan
Father Junipero Serra
Battle of Gettysberg
tule
34. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
John C. Fremont
Workingmen's Party
Mt. Whitney
World War II
35. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Jose Figueroa
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Trenton
anti - federalists
36. (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
Anasazi culture
apparel industry
Major battles of the Civil War
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
37. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Union advantage
England and the colonies: similarities
Connecticut Commonwealth
anti - federalists
38. 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
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Mexican Independence
Andrew Johnson
39. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
Hiram Johnson
Silicon Valley
Olmec Empire
40. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Amendments
Central Pacific Railroad
John C. Fremont
Lewis and Clark
41. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Jacksonian democracy
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
42. 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
presidios
Immigration Act of 1965
Germans
recall
43. Northern California Indian tribes
The interior
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Central Valley Project
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
44. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Pilgrims
Gold
reasons of American immigration
Battle of Gettysberg
45. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
The Great Basin
The Declaration of Independence
Quartering Act
anti - federalists
46. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
Immigration Act of 1965
Sugar Act
aeorspace industry
47. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
missions
Watts Riots
November 1849
French and Indian War
48. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Hopewell people
Mexicans
Hiram Johnson
Chinese
49. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
French and Indian War
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
free - soil movement
tule
50. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
issue of representation under the Constitution
reasons of American immigration