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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. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Sebastian Cermeno
The Inca Empire
The Maya Empire
Quartering Act
2. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Amendments
William Penn
black codes
3. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
Dust Bowl
Amendments
Sugar Act
4. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Francisco Montejo
rancho system
Bill of Rights
5. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Bill of Rights
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
Francisco Montejo
6. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Confederacy advanage
Maryland
nullification
7. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
Olmec Empire
Okies
Francisco Montejo
The Chinese Exclusion Act
8. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
loose construction
Mississippian culture
Salton Sea
Europeans in the New World: Spain
9. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
the Oregon Territory
Mono Lake
Japanese
Hernando Cortez
10. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Germans
November 1849
Central Pacific Railroad
11. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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12. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Watts Riots
General Stockton and General Kearney
southern anad eastern European
13. Northern California Indian tribes
Pueblo Indians
The Industrial Era of the United States
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Constitution
14. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
The Mississippi River
internment camps
anti - federalists
Angel Island
15. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
England and the colonies: differences
California
Amerindians
16. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
New Government
General Stockton
Pilgrims
Compromise of 1850
17. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
separation of powers
World War II
Russians
Father Junipero Serra
18. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Toltecs
Trenton
19. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Hiram Johnson
Irish
Second Constitutional Congress
20. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
presidios
Mississippian culture
Amendments
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
21. (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
William Penn
free - soil movement
Rodney Case
Chronological order of the colonies
22. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Confederacy advanage
Prevailing Westerlies
Mayflower Compact
Sebastian Vicaino
23. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
recall
Henry Hudson
Salton Sea
Emanciptation Proclomation
24. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Emanciptation Proclomation
2002
judicial branch
25. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Federalist Party
Toltecs
26. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
The Gulf Stream
Okies
The Mississippi River
The Inca Empire
27. 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.
Chinese
The Declaration of Independence
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
28. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
Puritans
Major battles of the Civil War
Lewis and Clark
29. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Articles of Confederation
acorns
30. Southeatern California native american tribes
sacred expedition
Dust Bowl
Sir Francis Drake
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
31. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Mexican American War
tule
Proposition 13
Central Valley Project
32. 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
Constitution
New Government
Europeans in the New World: France
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
33. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Intolerable Acts of 1774
England and the colonies: differences
34. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Europeans in the New World: Britain
judicial branch
California Alien Land Act
35. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Europeans in the New World: France
Europeans in the New World
anti - federalists
36. 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
Bill of Rights
recall
General Stockton
Father Junipero Serra
37. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Quartering Act
Johann Sutter
Central Valley
Jose de Galves
38. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
Intolerable Acts of 1774
merchant Sam Brannon
Irish
39. People who took land from the original Californios
'strict construction'
hydraulic mining -
squatters
Compromise of 1850
40. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
the Oregon Territory
secession
Samuel de Champlain
presidios
41. The lowest point in California
manifest destiny
loose construction
Depression of 1870
Death Valley
42. Lincoln's vice president became president
Bill of Rights
The Maya Empire
sacred expedition
Andrew Johnson
43. In the eastern region of the United States
Maryland
Exeter Compact
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
44. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Salton Sea
Father Fermin Lausen
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
45. Drains the interior of the United States
Mt. Whitney
The Mississippi River
Constitution
Silicon Valley
46. 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
Jose de Galves
Sir Francis Drake
Great Awakening
Workingmen's Party
47. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
2002
First Continental Congress
Sir Francis Drake
Jamestown
48. 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
Pony Express
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
hydraulic mining -
49. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Immigration Act of 1965
Major battles of the Civil War
black codes
railroad
50. 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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