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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
The interior
Ten Percent Plan
Transcontinental Railroad
Irish
2. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sugar Act
Irish
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World
3. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
Angel Island
The interior
Compromise of 1850
4. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Jacques Cartier
Europeans in the New World: France
Radical Republicans
Olmec Empire
5. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
tourism
nullification
Constitution
the Great Compromise
6. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World
The Great Basin
black codes
Union advantage
7. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Hernando Cortez
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Battle of Gettysberg
entertainment
8. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Juan Cabrillo
California Alien Land Act
forty - niners
Election of 1876
9. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
Lewis and Clark
Whig Party
Amendments
10. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
apparel industry
The Aztec Empire
federalism
11. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
The Piedmont
black codes
forty - niners
Sierra Nevadas
12. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
The Gulf Stream
The Declaration of Independence
Mississippian culture
13. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Europeans in the New World: Britain
England and the colonies: similarities
Pueblo Indians
Pilgrims
14. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Revolutionary War
November 1849
decline of the Mayan civlization
15. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Progressives
Connecticut Commonwealth
Puritans
Jamestown
16. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
The Declaration of Independence
Father Fermin Lausen
Constitution
southern anad eastern European
17. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Proposition 13
Juan Cabrillo
John C. Fremont
Jose de Galves
18. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
First Continental Congress
War of 1812
Mexicans
Intolerable Acts of 1774
19. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
the Oregon Territory
Election of 1876
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Amendments
20. The two major deserts in California
Hiram Johnson
General Stockton
1850
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
21. 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
recall
Immigration Act of 1965
Townsheld Acts of 1767
General Stockton and General Kearney
22. An era fueled by availabliity of a cheap labor pool in the form of recent immigrants. Newly built factories attracted even more immigrants to the states
forty - niners
The Industrial Era of the United States
World War II
Townsheld Acts of 1767
23. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Jacksonian democracy
Francisco Montejo
acorns
24. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
manifest destiny
hydraulic mining -
Louisiana Purchase
25. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
rights of states
Hopewell people
presidios
26. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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27. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
how Union defeated Confederates
rights of the federal government
Democratic Republicans
initiative
28. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
tourism
Toltecs
29. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Constitution
Rodney Case
The Maya Empire
Chinese
30. 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
secession
Germans
Proclamation of 1763
issue of representation under the Constitution
31. 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
loose construction
recall
Francisco Montejo
First Continental Congress
32. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Panama Canal
how Union defeated Confederates
Gold
Silicon Valley
33. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Democratic Republicans
Georgia
Proposition 13
Louisiana Purchase
34. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
railroad
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Germans
35. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
Hetch Hetchy Dam
forty - niners
The Industrial Era of the United States
the conquistadores
36. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Declaration of Independence
anti - federalists
aeorspace industry
Emanciptation Proclomation
37. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican - American War
Great Awakening
38. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
Three - Fifths Compromise
Father Fermin Lausen
Sebastian Cermeno
39. 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
Francisco Pizarro
Chronological order of the colonies
Mt. Whitney
Modoc War
40. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Bill of Rights
The Piedmont
manifest destiny
Hiram Johnson
41. 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
Pony Express
The Aztec Empire
Salton Sea
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
42. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
War of 1812
forty - niners
executive branch
November 1849
43. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
melting pot
Japanese
Bill of Rights
judicial branch
44. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Balboa
The Industrial Era of the United States
Proclamation of 1763
45. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Gulf Stream
Amendments
Bear Flag Revolt
46. 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)
Father Junipero Serra
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Central Pacific Railroad
Missouri Compromise of 1820
47. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
separation of powers
Francisco Pizarro
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Constitution
48. 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
water
Hernando Cortes
Hiram Johnson
Central Pacific Railroad
49. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
anti - federalists
Stamp Tax
Okies
Sebastian Vicaino
50. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
General Stockton and General Kearney
decline of the Mayan civlization
legislative branch
The Mississippi River