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CSET U.S And California History
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1. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
free - soil movement
Important Battles of the Revolution
forty - niners
The interior
2. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Workingmen's Party
Central Valley Project
the conquistadores
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
3. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
John C. Fremont
how Union defeated Confederates
Puritans
Depression of 1870
4. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Olmec Empire
Great Awakening
Okies
5. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
Revolutionary War
Central Pacific Railroad
Jose de Galves
railroad
6. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Juan Cabrillo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mississippian culture
Okies
7. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
The Aztec Empire
Francisco Montejo
Thirteenth Amendment
Constitutional Convention
8. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Major battles of the Civil War
separation of powers
Townsheld Acts of 1767
9. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Ten Percent Plan
Dust Bowl
Europeans in the New World
10. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Second Constitutional Congress
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
11. 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
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Louisiana Purchase
2002
12. 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
Sebastian Cermeno
judicial branch
Election of 1876
Pony Express
13. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
loose construction
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Toltecs
issue of representation under the Constitution
14. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Three - Fifths Compromise
England and the colonies: similarities
free - soil movement
legislative branch
15. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Juan Cabrillo
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Piedmont
Central Valley
16. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Pilgrims
Prevailing Westerlies
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Major battles of the Civil War
17. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
18. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Confederacy advanage
Mexicans
Chinese
Hernando Cortes
19. 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
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Sebastian Cermeno
20. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
manifest destiny
Central Pacific Railroad
Hopewell people
rights of the federal government
21. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
California
Dust Bowl
Mt. Whitney
Johann Sutter
22. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Central Valley
Tea Act of 1773
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
referendum
23. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Sugar Act
Workingmen's Party
Mississippian culture
November 1849
24. 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
Dust Bowl
Amerindians
Central Valley Project
25. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Ten Percent Plan
Magnuson Act of 1943
melting pot
William Penn
26. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Europeans in the New World
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Bill of Rights
Gold
27. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Europeans in the New World
tule
the Great Compromise
merchant Sam Brannon
28. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
tule
Confederacy advanage
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Gulf Stream
29. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
manifest destiny
The Maya Empire
Progressives
Constitutional Convention
30. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
Anasazi culture
rights of states
hydraulic mining -
Modoc War
31. 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
Rodney Case
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Watts Riots
Amendments
32. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Louisiana Purchase
black codes
General Stockton
Transcontinental Railroad
33. 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
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Dust Bowl
issue of representation under the Constitution
Union advantage
34. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Battle of Gettysberg
southern anad eastern European
35. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
tule
Railroad Act of 1864
Mono Lake
Whig Party
36. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Three - Fifths Compromise
Toltecs
Modoc War
37. 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
recall
free - soil movement
Land Commission
Mexican Independence
38. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
General Stockton
merchant Sam Brannon
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
apparel industry
39. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
the Oregon Territory
Maryland
Mt. Whitney
Constitution
40. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
The Aztec Empire
England and the colonies: similarities
referendum
Sierra Nevadas
41. A major food staple of California native American tribes
acorns
General Stockton and General Kearney
Central Valley Project
internment camps
42. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Jose de Galves
1850
Constitutional Convention
initiative
43. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Mono Lake
The Continental Divide
Trenton
44. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Sir Francis Drake
Hopewell people
45. Drains the interior of the United States
free - soil movement
Maryland
The Mississippi River
Central Pacific Railroad
46. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Jose Figueroa
Revolutionary War
how Union defeated Confederates
Sierra Nevadas
47. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Germans
Central Valley
Bear Flag Revolt
48. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Chinese
Mexican Independence
rancho system
Europeans in the New World: Spain
49. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Articles of Confederation
manifest destiny
railroad
Central Pacific Railroad
50. 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
Modoc War
Federalist Party
The Inca Empire
Balboa