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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Pilgrims
The Gulf Stream
Federalist Papers
merchant Sam Brannon
2. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Central Valley Project
Francisco Pizarro
Georgia
Owens River
3. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Mayflower Compact
secession
Andrew Johnson
Progressives
4. 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
Magnuson Act of 1943
secession
Rhode Island
Hopewell people
5. Southern California native american tribes
Samuel de Champlain
Sebastian Vicaino
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Commodore Sloat
6. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Hetch Hetchy Dam
hydraulic mining -
November 1849
California
7. (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
Anasazi culture
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
The southeastern Coastal Plain
8. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
the Great Compromise
Germans
Bill of Rights
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
9. 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
federalism
Pilgrims
rights of states
Jose de Galves
10. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Democratic Republicans
Emanciptation Proclomation
Bill of Rights
Toltecs
11. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Anasazi culture
nullification
Major battles of the Civil War
12. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
The Piedmont
Toltecs
the Great Compromise
2002
13. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
internment camps
tourism
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jamestown
14. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
The Maya Empire
Land Commission
Federalist Party
Constitutional Convention
15. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Gold
Mexican American War
presidios
16. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
tourism
recall
Commodore Sloat
Immigration Act of 1965
17. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
apparel industry
Andrew Johnson
November 1849
Constitutional Convention
18. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Mt. Whitney
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Silicon Valley
Panama Canal
19. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
California Alien Land Act
reasons of American immigration
Prevailing Westerlies
Lewis and Clark
20. (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
Chronological order of the colonies
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Mayflower Compact
Election of 1876
21. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
issue of representation under the Constitution
federalism
Land Commission
William Penn
22. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
The Piedmont
Panama Canal
Stamp Tax
23. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Commodore Sloat
Quartering Act
War of 1812
24. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Samuel de Champlain
Prevailing Westerlies
25. A major food staple of California native American tribes
the conquistadores
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Maya Empire
acorns
26. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Revolutionary War
The Inca Empire
Magnuson Act of 1943
French and Indian War
27. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
rancho system
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Mexicans
Missouri Compromise of 1820
28. 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
The Inca Empire
John C. Fremont
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Montejo
29. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
1850
Louisiana Purchase
Okies
Appomattox Court
30. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
secession
War of 1812
Three - Fifths Compromise
entertainment
31. 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
Magnuson Act of 1943
Amendments
Balboa
32. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
2002
Mayflower Compact
tule
Transcontinental Railroad
33. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Articles of Confederation
Sebastian Vicaino
Thirteenth Amendment
initiative
34. 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
entertainment
Mayflower Compact
Delaware
Rodney Case
35. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Modoc War
World War II
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Continental Divide
36. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
Revolutionary War
England and the colonies: differences
November 1849
37. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
Mexican - American War
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Important Battles of the Revolution
38. 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
Central Valley
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
The Mississippi River
Francisco Pizarro
39. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Bear Flag Revolt
Francisco Pizarro
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Mexican - American War
40. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
Battle of Gettysberg
Sierra Nevadas
Uncle Tom's Cabin
41. In the eastern region of the United States
The Maya Empire
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Great Basin
John C. Fremont
42. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Chinese
2002
Sir Francis Drake
Samuel de Champlain
43. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
internment camps
Pueblo Indians
recall
Bill of Rights
44. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
manifest destiny
Thirteenth Amendment
Union advantage
Mono Lake
45. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Amendments
Delaware
General Stockton and General Kearney
Bill of Rights
46. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
sacred expedition
Jacques Cartier
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Bill of Rights
47. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
free - soil movement
Hiram Johnson
2002
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
48. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
rancho system
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Sebastian Cermeno
Jacksonian democracy
49. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Revolutionary War
Depression of 1870
Watts Riots
50. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
manifest destiny
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Compromise of 1850
tourism