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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Bill of Rights
Salton Sea
sacred expedition
Jamestown
2. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
Father Junipero Serra
Europeans in the New World: France
Mississippian culture
3. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World
Samuel de Champlain
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: Britain
4. 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)
Magnuson Act of 1943
Chronological order of the colonies
Father Junipero Serra
forty - niners
5. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
Thirteenth Amendment
Democratic Republicans
Proposition 13
Amerindians
6. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Irish
Delaware
Sugar Act
Great Awakening
7. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
free - soil movement
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
8. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Japanese
Proclamation of 1763
Delaware
Depression of 1870
9. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
free - soil movement
New Government
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
10. 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
Missouri Compromise of 1820
judicial branch
Central Valley
England and the colonies: differences
11. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Constitutional Convention
internment camps
Radical Republicans
Angel Island
12. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
War of 1812
World War II
rights of the federal government
13. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
French and Indian War
Exeter Compact
initiative
French and Indian War
14. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Russians
secession
First Continental Congress
'strict construction'
15. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
Europeans in the New World: Spain
decline of the Mayan civlization
Constitution
16. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Hopewell people
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Maryland
17. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
presidios
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Mexican American War
pueblos
18. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Hopewell people
Bill of Rights
reasons of American immigration
Francisco Pizarro
19. In the eastern region of the United States
The Gulf Stream
Important Battles of the Revolution
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
loose construction
20. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Balboa
Constitutional Convention
The Maya Empire
executive branch
21. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Battle of Gettysberg
Hetch Hetchy Dam
November 1849
Commodore Sloat
22. (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
Henry Hudson
legislative branch
Major battles of the Civil War
Chronological order of the colonies
23. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
rights of states
Maryland
Europeans in the New World
legislative branch
24. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Important Battles of the Revolution
Stamp Tax
Japanese
Connecticut Commonwealth
25. 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
Russians
Emanciptation Proclomation
Railroad Act of 1864
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
26. 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 Oregon Territory
the conquistadores
forty - niners
legislative branch
27. Facilities that the Spanish used to turned to the Indians to establish agricultural fields and learned Christianity. natives also were exposed to disease that they don't have immunity to. Also - brought olive trees and orange trees and introduced whe
Chinese
Francisco Montejo
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
missions
28. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
how Union defeated Confederates
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Election of 1876
Johann Sutter
29. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Election of 1876
The Inca Empire
Pony Express
30. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
November 1849
California Alien Land Act
New Government
31. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Amerindians
Stamp Tax
Mexican - American War
Sir Francis Drake
32. 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
Europeans in the New World: France
initiative
Connecticut Commonwealth
Mexicans
33. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Mississippi River
Proclamation of 1763
Commodore Sloat
34. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Chinese
Maryland
Chronological order of the colonies
Railroad Act of 1864
35. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
World War II
Okies
Three - Fifths Compromise
36. 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
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Russians
Mexicans
Election of 1876
37. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
England and the colonies: differences
melting pot
The Chinese Exclusion Act
nullification
38. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Commodore Sloat
Hiram Johnson
the Oregon Territory
Hetch Hetchy Dam
39. 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
Hernando Cortes
Mexican American War
Central Valley Project
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
40. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
The Maya Empire
Balboa
Central Valley Project
Amendments
41. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
rights of states
November 1849
Dust Bowl
Railroad Act of 1864
42. 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
Pueblo Indians
Articles of Confederation
Revolutionary War
California Alien Land Act
43. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Georgia
aeorspace industry
Jacques Cartier
44. 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
Magnuson Act of 1943
The Inca Empire
Sir Francis Drake
Europeans in the New World: France
45. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Union advantage
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
loose construction
46. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
the Great Compromise
Delaware
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
47. Lincoln's vice president became president
Andrew Johnson
California Alien Land Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
black codes
48. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
California
Chronological order of the colonies
Sir Francis Drake
Rhode Island
49. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
separation of powers
Hernando Cortez
Germans
rancho system
50. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
loose construction
Delaware
initiative