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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The Mississippi River
The interior
Battle of Gettysberg
Silicon Valley
2. The central agricultural area of California
forty - niners
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Central Valley
merchant Sam Brannon
3. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Juan Cabrillo
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Angel Island
pueblos
4. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Samuel de Champlain
Federalist Papers
Townsheld Acts of 1767
rights of the federal government
5. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
The interior
the Great Compromise
Tea Act of 1773
French and Indian War
6. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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7. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Proposition 13
Henry Hudson
Central Valley
Georgia
8. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Owens River
Connecticut Commonwealth
Immigration Act of 1965
Johann Sutter
9. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Election of 1876
Henry Hudson
Gold
Important Battles of the Revolution
10. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Okies
1850
Russians
The Chinese Exclusion Act
11. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Juan Cabrillo
Proposition 13
railroad
acorns
12. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
the conquistadores
Rhode Island
separation of powers
Confederacy advanage
13. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
presidios
Yorktown
Jacques Cartier
Trenton
14. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Constitutional Convention
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Stamp Tax
presidios
15. 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
The Mississippi River
Land Commission
French and Indian War
Father Fermin Lausen
16. 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
Pueblo Indians
hydraulic mining -
Democratic Republicans
Jamestown
17. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Lewis and Clark
Depression of 1870
Germans
Bear Flag Revolt
18. 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
Mexican Independence
how Union defeated Confederates
Election of 1876
Delaware
19. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Depression of 1870
Articles of Confederation
Amerindians
Magnuson Act of 1943
20. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
internment camps
Constitutional Convention
Mayflower Compact
Europeans in the New World: Spain
21. Gave southerneers a stronger fugitive slave law and popular sovereignty (territories would have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to adopt slavery on their borders) over newly conquered Mexico areas in exchange for Califor
Bear Flag Revolt
black codes
Battle of Gettysberg
Compromise of 1850
22. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Emanciptation Proclomation
melting pot
Francisco Montejo
23. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Workingmen's Party
The Piedmont
General Stockton
2002
24. 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
Owens River
Central Valley Project
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
25. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
recall
The Gulf Stream
The Great Basin
pueblos
26. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Election of 1876
Henry Hudson
separation of powers
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
27. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Delaware
nullification
melting pot
Battle of Gettysberg
28. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Jose Figueroa
Yorktown
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Three - Fifths Compromise
29. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Chinese
the conquistadores
The Appalachian Mountains
Georgia
30. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Jacksonian democracy
French and Indian War
The Gulf Stream
Federalist Papers
31. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
secession
Depression of 1870
manifest destiny
World War II
32. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
General Stockton and General Kearney
Jamestown
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
33. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
The Chinese Exclusion Act
southern anad eastern European
England and the colonies: similarities
Major battles of the Civil War
34. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
The Continental Divide
squatters
Balboa
Bill of Rights
35. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Exeter Compact
Declaration of Independence
Samuel de Champlain
36. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Townsheld Acts of 1767
William Penn
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
General Stockton and General Kearney
37. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
legislative branch
Francisco Montejo
Angel Island
the Great Compromise
38. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
Sugar Act
Union advantage
Europeans in the New World: Britain
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
Mississippian culture
Pilgrims
Articles of Confederation
rancho system
40. In the eastern region of the United States
Dust Bowl
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
reasons of American immigration
The Mississippi River
41. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
William Penn
Townsheld Acts of 1767
John C. Fremont
Quartering Act
42. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Hernando Cortes
The Aztec Empire
Toltecs
Sebastian Cermeno
43. 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
The Inca Empire
Chinese
missions
The interior
44. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
The Piedmont
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Angel Island
Jose Figueroa
45. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Juan Cabrillo
Sugar Act
apparel industry
46. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Townsheld Acts of 1767
rancho system
Rodney Case
Father Junipero Serra
47. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
The Industrial Era of the United States
2002
Sebastian Cermeno
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
48. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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49. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Rodney Case
presidios
Irish
Radical Republicans
50. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Appomattox Court
Jamestown
Major battles of the Civil War
melting pot