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CSET U.S And California History

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1. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches






2. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'






3. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers






4. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana






5. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach






6. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands






7. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River






8. 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






9. 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






10. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population






11. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free


12. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state






13. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs






14. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II






15. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States






16. The central agricultural area of California






17. 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






18. A major food staple of California native American tribes






19. 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






20. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation






21. The highest point in California






22. 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






23. 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






24. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories






25. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act






26. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land






27. Northern California Indian tribes






28. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York






29. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post






30. 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






31. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States






32. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population






33. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula






34. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing






35. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast






36. 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






37. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal






38. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states






39. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America






40. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged






41. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru






42. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620






43. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures






44. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)






45. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos






50. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII