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CSET U.S And California History

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1. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator






2. 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






3. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together






4. 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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5. 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






6. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans






7. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis






8. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River






9. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories






10. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services






11. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest






12. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)






13. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there






14. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)






15. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers






16. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo






17. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico






18. The first declaration of self - government in the New World






19. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid






20. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River






21. 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






22. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States






23. 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






24. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations






25. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs






26. 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






27. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory






28. Northern California Indian tribes






29. 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






30. People who took land from the original Californios






31. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada






32. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy






33. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge






34. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land






35. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free

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36. 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.






37. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population






38. Opened in 1914 and extends international links






39. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities






40. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes






41. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos






42. 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






43. 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






44. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s






45. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery






46. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad






47. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings






48. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'






49. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast






50. 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