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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
The Piedmont
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Federalist Papers
presidios
2. 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
Okies
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Election of 1876
hydraulic mining -
3. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
Juan Cabrillo
Chronological order of the colonies
Hiram Johnson
Salton Sea
4. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
California
Silicon Valley
Amendments
Trenton
5. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Great Awakening
Radical Republicans
rights of the federal government
Progressives
6. 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
Federalist Party
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Aztec Empire
Mono Lake
7. 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
pueblos
Pony Express
William Penn
secession
8. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Dust Bowl
The Appalachian Mountains
the Great Compromise
Central Pacific Railroad
9. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Delaware
issue of representation under the Constitution
black codes
Lewis and Clark
10. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
French and Indian War
Railroad Act of 1864
Georgia
11. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Mt. Whitney
executive branch
Whig Party
Proposition 13
12. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
sacred expedition
Federalist Party
Missouri Compromise of 1820
13. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
French and Indian War
Bill of Rights
Second Constitutional Congress
Angel Island
14. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Europeans in the New World
The interior
how Union defeated Confederates
Salton Sea
15. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
Amendments
Important Battles of the Revolution
Europeans in the New World: Spain
16. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
Stamp Tax
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Union advantage
17. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Rodney Case
Exeter Compact
Proposition 13
18. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Proposition 13
Important Battles of the Revolution
melting pot
19. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Mexicans
anti - federalists
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
20. 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
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Sebastian Vicaino
England and the colonies: differences
21. 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
referendum
Delaware
recall
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
22. 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
Mt. Whitney
Lewis and Clark
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Union advantage
23. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
War of 1812
issue of representation under the Constitution
Dust Bowl
Maryland
24. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Louisiana Purchase
free - soil movement
Bill of Rights
Sierra Nevadas
25. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
The Gulf Stream
Amendments
Stamp Tax
William Penn
26. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Europeans in the New World: France
Declaration of Independence
Emanciptation Proclomation
Watts Riots
27. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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28. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
The Maya Empire
merchant Sam Brannon
The Industrial Era of the United States
29. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Magnuson Act of 1943
Federalist Papers
Mexican Independence
Compromise of 1850
30. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Confederacy advanage
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Three - Fifths Compromise
the conquistadores
31. 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
decline of the Mayan civlization
Connecticut Commonwealth
French and Indian War
Henry Hudson
32. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Europeans in the New World
Georgia
England and the colonies: differences
33. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Silicon Valley
The Piedmont
Henry Hudson
Depression of 1870
34. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Rhode Island
Depression of 1870
Owens River
Exeter Compact
35. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
California
Depression of 1870
judicial branch
The Gulf Stream
36. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Samuel de Champlain
Gold
French and Indian War
executive branch
37. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Trenton
Election of 1876
Europeans in the New World
38. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Prevailing Westerlies
The Gulf Stream
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
39. 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.
Mt. Whitney
The Declaration of Independence
Union advantage
Gentleman's Agreement
40. Drains the interior of the United States
French and Indian War
executive branch
Sebastian Cermeno
The Mississippi River
41. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Stamp Tax
Federalist Papers
42. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Panama Canal
squatters
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Bear Flag Revolt
43. (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
squatters
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Major battles of the Civil War
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
44. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
Federalist Party
Trenton
acorns
Father Junipero Serra
45. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
England and the colonies: similarities
Thirteenth Amendment
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Second Constitutional Congress
46. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
California Alien Land Act
federalism
Silicon Valley
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
47. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Mt. Whitney
The Industrial Era of the United States
rancho system
Gold
48. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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49. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
sacred expedition
missions
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
50. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Central Valley Project
Chinese
Europeans in the New World: France
French and Indian War