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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Three - Fifths Compromise
Great Awakening
Lewis and Clark
John C. Fremont
2. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Bill of Rights
Land Commission
Union advantage
3. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Mexicans
Mono Lake
the Oregon Territory
presidios
4. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Europeans in the New World: France
Mono Lake
Bill of Rights
5. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
The Industrial Era of the United States
Rodney Case
French and Indian War
General Stockton
6. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
anti - federalists
recall
Declaration of Independence
Central Valley Project
7. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Anasazi culture
Andrew Johnson
Dust Bowl
Three - Fifths Compromise
8. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Europeans in the New World: Spain
manifest destiny
the conquistadores
9. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
judicial branch
10. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Prevailing Westerlies
rights of the federal government
Irish
11. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Workingmen's Party
nullification
Mexicans
Emanciptation Proclomation
12. 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
Election of 1876
The Appalachian Mountains
presidios
Revolutionary War
13. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Jose Figueroa
French and Indian War
California
separation of powers
14. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Amendments
Father Fermin Lausen
anti - federalists
Europeans in the New World
15. 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
Radical Republicans
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Juan Cabrillo
16. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Federalist Party
tourism
how Union defeated Confederates
Prevailing Westerlies
17. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
General Stockton
Mono Lake
Okies
18. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Ten Percent Plan
missions
acorns
Great Awakening
19. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Mono Lake
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Sierra Nevadas
20. 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
Progressives
Jose de Galves
the Oregon Territory
21. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Owens River
anti - federalists
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Louisiana Purchase
22. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
1850
Proclamation of 1763
Confederacy advanage
Mexican Independence
23. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Francisco Montejo
Delaware
rancho system
California
24. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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25. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Louisiana Purchase
executive branch
26. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
Confederacy advanage
General Stockton
Father Junipero Serra
Angel Island
27. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
southern anad eastern European
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
merchant Sam Brannon
legislative branch
28. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Thirteenth Amendment
legislative branch
World War II
French and Indian War
29. 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
Lewis and Clark
Mono Lake
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
30. Southeatern California native american tribes
Mexicans
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
water
Battle of Gettysberg
31. 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 Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Federalist Papers
Francisco Montejo
The Aztec Empire
32. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
First Continental Congress
Russians
World War II
Transcontinental Railroad
33. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
World War II
Major battles of the Civil War
34. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Andrew Johnson
Transcontinental Railroad
rights of states
Jamestown
35. 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
Juan Cabrillo
Georgia
Owens River
Compromise of 1850
36. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
missions
Mayflower Compact
Modoc War
French and Indian War
37. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
decline of the Mayan civlization
Appomattox Court
loose construction
Europeans in the New World: France
38. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
loose construction
Ten Percent Plan
water
Great Awakening
39. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
California
the Oregon Territory
The Maya Empire
free - soil movement
40. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
Appomattox Court
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
tourism
41. 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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42. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Confederacy advanage
Declaration of Independence
acorns
Three - Fifths Compromise
43. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Magnuson Act of 1943
Jamestown
Rodney Case
Japanese
44. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Silicon Valley
Jose de Galves
Commodore Sloat
Connecticut Commonwealth
45. 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
acorns
missions
Irish
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
46. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Anasazi culture
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Germans
how Union defeated Confederates
47. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Emanciptation Proclomation
Louisiana Purchase
The Inca Empire
rights of the federal government
48. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
squatters
War of 1812
Jose Figueroa
Toltecs
49. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
judicial branch
water
Proposition 13
First Continental Congress
50. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
The interior
Mayflower Compact
Hiram Johnson
Andrew Johnson