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CSET U.S And California History
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1. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
the Oregon Territory
The Gulf Stream
Georgia
French and Indian War
2. A major mountain range in California
Sierra Nevadas
New Government
The Continental Divide
Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
free - soil movement
Stamp Tax
Francisco Montejo
Quartering Act
4. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Great Awakening
Yorktown
Commodore Sloat
5. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
rights of the federal government
Death Valley
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Maya Empire
6. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
referendum
Rhode Island
Lewis and Clark
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
7. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Trenton
Chinese
Quartering Act
World War II
8. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Georgia
Important Battles of the Revolution
French and Indian War
Jamestown
9. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Mexican - American War
Missouri Compromise of 1820
hydraulic mining -
black codes
10. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
melting pot
Mexicans
decline of the Mayan civlization
11. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
internment camps
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Toltecs
12. 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
Delaware
Central Valley
Constitution
Mexican Independence
13. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
secession
Trenton
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Central Pacific Railroad
14. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
England and the colonies: similarities
Connecticut Commonwealth
water
pueblos
15. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
decline of the Mayan civlization
1850
Hernando Cortez
16. In the eastern region of the United States
John C. Fremont
World War II
French and Indian War
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
17. 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.
Toltecs
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
18. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Amerindians
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Anasazi culture
19. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Transcontinental Railroad
Federalist Papers
Puritans
Uncle Tom's Cabin
20. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
Henry Hudson
separation of powers
Olmec Empire
hydraulic mining -
21. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Chinese
reasons of American immigration
Mt. Whitney
presidios
22. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
southern anad eastern European
California Alien Land Act
Declaration of Independence
Pueblo Indians
23. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
judicial branch
Mexican Independence
missions
Europeans in the New World: Britain
24. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
acorns
Three - Fifths Compromise
November 1849
Chronological order of the colonies
25. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
manifest destiny
Mexicans
Sierra Nevadas
26. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
the conquistadores
Dust Bowl
Magnuson Act of 1943
entertainment
27. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Mayflower Compact
Angel Island
Pilgrims
Commodore Sloat
28. Conduct elections - ratify amendments to constitution - issue licenses - regulate intrastate (within state) to business - establish local governments - take measures for public health and safety - any other powers that the Constitution does not reser
Pilgrims
reasons of American immigration
rights of states
hydraulic mining -
29. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
Trenton
manifest destiny
squatters
30. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
John C. Fremont
Radical Republicans
Chinese
Olmec Empire
31. 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
Depression of 1870
Europeans in the New World
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
initiative
32. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
sacred expedition
water
Bear Flag Revolt
Great Awakening
33. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Connecticut Commonwealth
Ten Percent Plan
The Maya Empire
34. 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
missions
Connecticut Commonwealth
initiative
The Chinese Exclusion Act
35. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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36. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
rancho system
New Government
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
executive branch
37. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
Sebastian Cermeno
Mississippian culture
The Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
38. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Henry Hudson
Democratic Republicans
Railroad Act of 1864
Angel Island
39. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
World War II
The interior
issue of representation under the Constitution
40. Facilities that the Spanish used to turned to the Indians to establish agricultural fields and learned Christianity. natives also were exposed to disease that they don't have immunity to. Also - brought olive trees and orange trees and introduced whe
missions
Important Battles of the Revolution
Samuel de Champlain
Russians
41. 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
Ten Percent Plan
Whig Party
Depression of 1870
Election of 1876
42. Lincoln's vice president became president
the conquistadores
The Continental Divide
Andrew Johnson
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
43. Central California native American tribes
Modoc War
presidios
Election of 1876
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
44. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
'strict construction'
railroad
First Continental Congress
Tea Act of 1773
45. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Modoc War
Pueblo Indians
Pilgrims
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
46. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Chinese
The Continental Divide
initiative
Europeans in the New World
47. Northern California Indian tribes
California
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Progressives
nullification
48. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Proposition 13
Pilgrims
Pony Express
Mt. Whitney
49. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Second Constitutional Congress
railroad
Important Battles of the Revolution
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
50. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
World War II
Puritans
Johann Sutter
Germans