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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
tourism
Missouri Compromise of 1820
General Stockton
Hernando Cortez
2. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Appalachian Mountains
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Depression of 1870
3. 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
The Continental Divide
Connecticut Commonwealth
Mexican American War
Europeans in the New World
4. 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
secession
judicial branch
Major battles of the Civil War
Appomattox Court
5. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
decline of the Mayan civlization
Francisco Montejo
Watts Riots
Quartering Act
6. 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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Olmec Empire
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Bill of Rights
7. The lowest point in California
Death Valley
tourism
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
England and the colonies: similarities
8. 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
Proclamation of 1763
John C. Fremont
Mexican Independence
Prevailing Westerlies
9. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Jamestown
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Salton Sea
The Appalachian Mountains
10. 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
Revolutionary War
The Piedmont
The Declaration of Independence
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
11. 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
The Aztec Empire
Bill of Rights
California
loose construction
12. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
tule
French and Indian War
Hernando Cortez
Jose de Galves
13. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
free - soil movement
Juan Cabrillo
1850
initiative
14. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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15. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
New Government
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
William Penn
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
16. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Lewis and Clark
rights of states
Confederacy advanage
17. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
The Appalachian Mountains
Thirteenth Amendment
Germans
Confederacy advanage
18. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Father Junipero Serra
Watts Riots
how Union defeated Confederates
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
19. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Delaware
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Constitution
Georgia
20. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
Magnuson Act of 1943
California
Sebastian Cermeno
21. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Democratic Republicans
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Proposition 13
Quartering Act
22. 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
Death Valley
Jacksonian democracy
Railroad Act of 1864
23. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
The Appalachian Mountains
Bill of Rights
reasons of American immigration
internment camps
24. Southeatern California native american tribes
Election of 1876
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
November 1849
Prevailing Westerlies
25. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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26. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
1850
Proposition 13
free - soil movement
Workingmen's Party
27. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
decline of the Mayan civlization
The Inca Empire
Japanese
Central Valley
28. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World
railroad
Dust Bowl
29. 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.
The Declaration of Independence
acorns
free - soil movement
federalism
30. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
2002
French and Indian War
Jacques Cartier
Silicon Valley
31. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Radical Republicans
melting pot
Federalist Papers
Father Fermin Lausen
32. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Bill of Rights
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
the Great Compromise
Jamestown
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
Second Constitutional Congress
the Great Compromise
Revolutionary War
initiative
34. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Emanciptation Proclomation
legislative branch
Chinese
Bill of Rights
35. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
Hernando Cortez
Olmec Empire
November 1849
36. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The interior
The Piedmont
nullification
37. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Trenton
the Great Compromise
southern anad eastern European
Hernando Cortes
38. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Important Battles of the Revolution
November 1849
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Emanciptation Proclomation
39. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
railroad
French and Indian War
Railroad Act of 1864
The Great Basin
40. 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
French and Indian War
black codes
Hetch Hetchy Dam
41. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Land Commission
Gold
Mayflower Compact
Union advantage
42. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
loose construction
Great Awakening
California Alien Land Act
Amendments
43. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Important Battles of the Revolution
Gentleman's Agreement
Japanese
railroad
44. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Central Pacific Railroad
aeorspace industry
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: Britain
45. 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
War of 1812
Modoc War
Central Valley Project
Pony Express
46. 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
Pueblo Indians
England and the colonies: similarities
Pony Express
judicial branch
47. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
The Industrial Era of the United States
Japanese
French and Indian War
The southeastern Coastal Plain
48. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Maryland
Mexican Independence
Mayflower Compact
49. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
the Great Compromise
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Silicon Valley
nullification
50. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
Ten Percent Plan
Olmec Empire
squatters
loose construction
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