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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
2002
Johann Sutter
Salton Sea
2. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
The Maya Empire
Europeans in the New World
Magnuson Act of 1943
the Great Compromise
3. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Whig Party
The Maya Empire
anti - federalists
Bill of Rights
4. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Missouri Compromise of 1820
California Alien Land Act
Father Junipero Serra
Great Awakening
5. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
The Aztec Empire
nullification
judicial branch
presidios
6. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Pony Express
the Great Compromise
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
apparel industry
7. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Mt. Whitney
Francisco Pizarro
Sebastian Vicaino
legislative branch
8. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Land Commission
Declaration of Independence
Proposition 13
Depression of 1870
9. The central agricultural area of California
Amendments
Hiram Johnson
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Central Valley
10. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Toltecs
Mayflower Compact
Johann Sutter
Jose Figueroa
11. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Articles of Confederation
Sebastian Cermeno
Gold
Hernando Cortez
12. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
Dust Bowl
Gentleman's Agreement
Okies
13. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
John C. Fremont
Angel Island
merchant Sam Brannon
Russians
14. 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
Articles of Confederation
tourism
Federalist Papers
The interior
15. The two major deserts in California
rights of states
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Europeans in the New World: Spain
16. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Europeans in the New World: France
Francisco Montejo
Declaration of Independence
Germans
17. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Chinese
The Industrial Era of the United States
Federalist Party
18. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Yorktown
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Juan Cabrillo
Democratic Republicans
19. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
how Union defeated Confederates
Important Battles of the Revolution
recall
squatters
20. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Proclamation of 1763
Mexican - American War
Land Commission
water
21. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Major battles of the Civil War
Immigration Act of 1965
legislative branch
Jose Figueroa
22. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Toltecs
Depression of 1870
23. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Amendments
anti - federalists
Georgia
federalism
24. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
merchant Sam Brannon
Europeans in the New World: Spain
The Mississippi River
Francisco Montejo
25. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Great Awakening
Chronological order of the colonies
melting pot
Andrew Johnson
26. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
squatters
Appomattox Court
Chronological order of the colonies
Central Pacific Railroad
27. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Samuel de Champlain
Pony Express
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
28. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
aeorspace industry
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Georgia
Articles of Confederation
29. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Appomattox Court
Quartering Act
water
Olmec Empire
30. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Angel Island
Bear Flag Revolt
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Georgia
31. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
The Aztec Empire
Trenton
Emanciptation Proclomation
secession
32. 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
Important Battles of the Revolution
Hernando Cortes
Europeans in the New World: France
November 1849
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
California
Whig Party
initiative
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
34. 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
England and the colonies: similarities
Bill of Rights
World War II
35. 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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36. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Central Valley
John C. Fremont
Yorktown
Mexican American War
37. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
entertainment
Progressives
Election of 1876
Delaware
38. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Hernando Cortes
California
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
39. 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)
Radical Republicans
how Union defeated Confederates
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Father Junipero Serra
40. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
manifest destiny
Balboa
French and Indian War
Mississippian culture
41. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
loose construction
Stamp Tax
Declaration of Independence
sacred expedition
42. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
The Gulf Stream
Exeter Compact
Hernando Cortez
Modoc War
43. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Juan Cabrillo
Democratic Republicans
Jamestown
Amendments
44. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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45. 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
Europeans in the New World: Spain
The Inca Empire
Hopewell people
separation of powers
46. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Father Fermin Lausen
Death Valley
rights of states
Commodore Sloat
47. 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
Compromise of 1850
Jacques Cartier
Pueblo Indians
Constitution
48. 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
Important Battles of the Revolution
Modoc War
The Maya Empire
Jamestown
49. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
England and the colonies: differences
Sebastian Cermeno
Confederacy advanage
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
50. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Thirteenth Amendment
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Great Awakening
The Piedmont
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