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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Watts Riots
Hernando Cortez
reasons of American immigration
2. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Chinese
Mexican - American War
Immigration Act of 1965
3. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Russians
Olmec Empire
Hopewell people
Panama Canal
4. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
Henry Hudson
California
Confederacy advanage
5. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
The interior
Jose de Galves
Father Junipero Serra
6. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Mt. Whitney
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Sebastian Cermeno
The Chinese Exclusion Act
7. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Constitutional Convention
The Mississippi River
decline of the Mayan civlization
Magnuson Act of 1943
8. 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
General Stockton and General Kearney
Sugar Act
Anasazi culture
Democratic Republicans
9. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Puritans
manifest destiny
England and the colonies: differences
Louisiana Purchase
10. A major mountain range in California
Lewis and Clark
England and the colonies: differences
The Aztec Empire
Sierra Nevadas
11. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Workingmen's Party
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Major battles of the Civil War
Bear Flag Revolt
12. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
Intolerable Acts of 1774
tourism
Tea Act of 1773
Democratic Republicans
13. 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
Balboa
nullification
Henry Hudson
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
14. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Father Junipero Serra
Battle of Gettysberg
Okies
Mono Lake
15. People who took land from the original Californios
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
squatters
Juan Cabrillo
Central Pacific Railroad
16. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Delaware
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Sugar Act
Jamestown
17. Northern California Indian tribes
rights of the federal government
how Union defeated Confederates
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
18. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Pony Express
Radical Republicans
Puritans
General Stockton and General Kearney
19. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Revolutionary War
Johann Sutter
Pilgrims
Jose Figueroa
20. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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21. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Angel Island
Mexican - American War
Appomattox Court
tule
22. 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
Land Commission
The interior
Missouri Compromise of 1820
recall
23. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Trenton
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Henry Hudson
missions
24. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Commodore Sloat
Jose Figueroa
manifest destiny
Chinese
25. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Puritans
Europeans in the New World
Appomattox Court
southern anad eastern European
26. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
The Gulf Stream
Japanese
November 1849
The southeastern Coastal Plain
27. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Connecticut Commonwealth
Intolerable Acts of 1774
initiative
Central Pacific Railroad
28. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Proclamation of 1763
Mt. Whitney
loose construction
Bear Flag Revolt
29. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
California Alien Land Act
General Stockton
The Mississippi River
England and the colonies: similarities
30. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Tea Act of 1773
Rhode Island
nullification
31. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Delaware
California Alien Land Act
Central Valley
Transcontinental Railroad
32. 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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33. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
Chinese
initiative
Mono Lake
34. 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
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
New Government
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Bill of Rights
35. Southern California native american tribes
Pilgrims
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Chinese
Connecticut Commonwealth
36. 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
reasons of American immigration
hydraulic mining -
The Inca Empire
entertainment
37. In the eastern region of the United States
Proclamation of 1763
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
black codes
Death Valley
38. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
John C. Fremont
anti - federalists
The Appalachian Mountains
39. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
tule
Proposition 13
Major battles of the Civil War
Land Commission
40. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
November 1849
Central Valley Project
Lewis and Clark
Workingmen's Party
41. 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
Federalist Party
issue of representation under the Constitution
Election of 1876
Hopewell people
42. 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
Dust Bowl
forty - niners
Irish
Bear Flag Revolt
43. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
French and Indian War
Puritans
Pony Express
Emanciptation Proclomation
44. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Magnuson Act of 1943
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
rancho system
nullification
45. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
The Maya Empire
Delaware
California
Workingmen's Party
46. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
England and the colonies: similarities
Germans
free - soil movement
rights of states
47. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
Immigration Act of 1965
Panama Canal
Maryland
48. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Puritans
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Louisiana Purchase
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
49. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
Second Constitutional Congress
New Government
reasons of American immigration
50. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Sugar Act
Watts Riots
Ten Percent Plan