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CSET U.S And California History
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1. People who took land from the original Californios
Democratic Republicans
squatters
sacred expedition
entertainment
2. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
free - soil movement
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
pueblos
water
3. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Jamestown
rancho system
Father Fermin Lausen
federalism
4. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Owens River
Hernando Cortez
5. 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
acorns
The Great Basin
how Union defeated Confederates
The Chinese Exclusion Act
6. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
The Industrial Era of the United States
Lewis and Clark
Revolutionary War
General Stockton
7. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Silicon Valley
Three - Fifths Compromise
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Revolutionary War
8. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
referendum
Russians
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Depression of 1870
9. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
aeorspace industry
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Jose Figueroa
Germans
10. 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
The Mississippi River
Emanciptation Proclomation
secession
Balboa
11. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Francisco Pizarro
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
General Stockton
recall
12. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Railroad Act of 1864
rancho system
Radical Republicans
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
13. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
executive branch
Mono Lake
Gold
The interior
14. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Japanese
the Oregon Territory
Pony Express
Bill of Rights
15. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Chinese
internment camps
The Declaration of Independence
Federalist Party
16. The two major deserts in California
Gold
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
War of 1812
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
17. 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
Gold
entertainment
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Hetch Hetchy Dam
18. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Commodore Sloat
Okies
Pueblo Indians
19. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
aeorspace industry
Dust Bowl
War of 1812
The southeastern Coastal Plain
20. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Germans
rancho system
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Central Pacific Railroad
21. 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
New Government
Balboa
Mono Lake
referendum
22. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Toltecs
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
23. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
The Inca Empire
Radical Republicans
The Piedmont
Appomattox Court
24. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Democratic Republicans
Balboa
Important Battles of the Revolution
25. 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
Exeter Compact
Democratic Republicans
First Continental Congress
Prevailing Westerlies
26. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
England and the colonies: similarities
Louisiana Purchase
Mt. Whitney
27. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
Chinese
executive branch
referendum
28. 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
Mississippian culture
Immigration Act of 1965
The Great Basin
internment camps
29. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Commodore Sloat
French and Indian War
Louisiana Purchase
William Penn
30. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Federalist Papers
The Great Basin
Jose de Galves
Olmec Empire
31. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Anasazi culture
Exeter Compact
Uncle Tom's Cabin
32. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Emanciptation Proclomation
Gold
acorns
Union advantage
33. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
apparel industry
Johann Sutter
Election of 1876
French and Indian War
34. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Francisco Montejo
Dust Bowl
Proclamation of 1763
nullification
35. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Europeans in the New World: France
Transcontinental Railroad
Hernando Cortes
Sugar Act
36. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states
Constitution
General Stockton and General Kearney
loose construction
Townsheld Acts of 1767
37. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Depression of 1870
Mayflower Compact
Germans
Railroad Act of 1864
38. In the eastern region of the United States
Hernando Cortes
Father Fermin Lausen
Bill of Rights
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
39. 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
Compromise of 1850
Mono Lake
reasons of American immigration
Articles of Confederation
40. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
England and the colonies: differences
Constitution
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
41. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
pueblos
Transcontinental Railroad
Prevailing Westerlies
42. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
California Alien Land Act
Important Battles of the Revolution
how Union defeated Confederates
Second Constitutional Congress
43. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
rights of the federal government
Mt. Whitney
The Inca Empire
44. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
'strict construction'
southern anad eastern European
Compromise of 1850
legislative branch
45. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Central Pacific Railroad
Important Battles of the Revolution
tourism
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
46. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Emanciptation Proclomation
Okies
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Owens River
47. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Yorktown
Declaration of Independence
judicial branch
California
48. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Pilgrims
Sebastian Cermeno
hydraulic mining -
Chronological order of the colonies
49. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
Magnuson Act of 1943
The Aztec Empire
merchant Sam Brannon
The Great Basin
50. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Pueblo Indians
Commodore Sloat
southern anad eastern European