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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
southern anad eastern European
judicial branch
1850
Louisiana Purchase
2. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
how Union defeated Confederates
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Mayflower Compact
melting pot
3. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Toltecs
The Piedmont
Hernando Cortez
Exeter Compact
4. Central California native American tribes
Maryland
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Trenton
missions
5. 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
melting pot
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Articles of Confederation
aeorspace industry
6. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Toltecs
Magnuson Act of 1943
The Appalachian Mountains
General Stockton and General Kearney
7. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Maya Empire
Confederacy advanage
Europeans in the New World: Britain
8. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
hydraulic mining -
melting pot
Hernando Cortes
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
9. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Silicon Valley
Watts Riots
issue of representation under the Constitution
Thirteenth Amendment
10. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Mexicans
Jose de Galves
Tea Act of 1773
Magnuson Act of 1943
11. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Panama Canal
Democratic Republicans
Whig Party
The Chinese Exclusion Act
12. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Bill of Rights
Prevailing Westerlies
Salton Sea
13. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
pueblos
Mexican Independence
Democratic Republicans
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
14. 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
Tea Act of 1773
England and the colonies: differences
presidios
Angel Island
15. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Railroad Act of 1864
Okies
Connecticut Commonwealth
how Union defeated Confederates
16. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Hetch Hetchy Dam
nullification
Immigration Act of 1965
the conquistadores
17. In the eastern region of the United States
War of 1812
Central Valley Project
Bear Flag Revolt
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
18. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Thirteenth Amendment
The Inca Empire
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
19. 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
Amerindians
Japanese
acorns
20. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Jose Figueroa
The Great Basin
Silicon Valley
Dust Bowl
21. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Democratic Republicans
Puritans
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Olmec Empire
22. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
England and the colonies: similarities
Revolutionary War
Rhode Island
Transcontinental Railroad
23. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
free - soil movement
New Government
Rhode Island
Hernando Cortes
24. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Proposition 13
the conquistadores
Trenton
25. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Important Battles of the Revolution
Lewis and Clark
internment camps
California
26. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Europeans in the New World
entertainment
manifest destiny
Missouri Compromise of 1820
27. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Compromise of 1850
Mississippian culture
initiative
The Continental Divide
28. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Connecticut Commonwealth
acorns
Major battles of the Civil War
Commodore Sloat
29. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Quartering Act
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Appomattox Court
anti - federalists
30. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
federalism
Sierra Nevadas
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Mexicans
31. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Central Valley
Great Awakening
Henry Hudson
Workingmen's Party
32. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Anasazi culture
Amerindians
33. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Land Commission
Rodney Case
tule
The interior
34. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
presidios
Mexican Independence
Hernando Cortez
Balboa
35. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Rhode Island
separation of powers
missions
36. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Mexican Independence
2002
Georgia
37. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
1850
Pony Express
Sir Francis Drake
Townsheld Acts of 1767
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
Hernando Cortes
Bill of Rights
Father Junipero Serra
Constitutional Convention
39. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
Rhode Island
Proposition 13
Delaware
40. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Delaware
hydraulic mining -
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
41. 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
southern anad eastern European
The Maya Empire
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Jose de Galves
42. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
Stamp Tax
rancho system
Sugar Act
43. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
The Appalachian Mountains
'strict construction'
November 1849
New Government
44. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Gold
Depression of 1870
Maryland
45. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Jose de Galves
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Salton Sea
46. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
The Inca Empire
Depression of 1870
how Union defeated Confederates
Jose Figueroa
47. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
loose construction
Bill of Rights
Exeter Compact
decline of the Mayan civlization
48. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Great Awakening
water
the conquistadores
Gold
49. The central agricultural area of California
Transcontinental Railroad
the conquistadores
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Central Valley
50. 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
Owens River
Salton Sea
Election of 1876
loose construction
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