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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
The Maya Empire
General Stockton and General Kearney
Mono Lake
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
2. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Owens River
Father Junipero Serra
General Stockton
Connecticut Commonwealth
3. Southeatern California native american tribes
Bill of Rights
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
recall
Amendments
4. People who took land from the original Californios
Pueblo Indians
southern anad eastern European
Japanese
squatters
5. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Maya Empire
Bear Flag Revolt
Articles of Confederation
6. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Chronological order of the colonies
internment camps
Rodney Case
federalism
7. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Proposition 13
French and Indian War
Hernando Cortes
Irish
8. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Sugar Act
The Maya Empire
Toltecs
Henry Hudson
9. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Francisco Montejo
Jose Figueroa
Juan Cabrillo
Germans
10. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Hopewell people
Important Battles of the Revolution
Union advantage
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
11. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The Aztec Empire
Compromise of 1850
War of 1812
12. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Union advantage
War of 1812
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Federalist Party
13. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
the Great Compromise
Hernando Cortez
Quartering Act
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
14. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Jacques Cartier
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
pueblos
15. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Federalist Party
Central Valley
The Gulf Stream
16. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
federalism
Connecticut Commonwealth
Prevailing Westerlies
Mississippian culture
17. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
Francisco Montejo
Articles of Confederation
Pueblo Indians
18. 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
The Continental Divide
Hetch Hetchy Dam
The Inca Empire
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
19. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
legislative branch
Toltecs
Commodore Sloat
rights of states
20. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Japanese
Emanciptation Proclomation
separation of powers
French and Indian War
21. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
federalism
Johann Sutter
Three - Fifths Compromise
Second Constitutional Congress
22. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
Hiram Johnson
Articles of Confederation
Jamestown
23. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
internment camps
Mississippian culture
anti - federalists
loose construction
24. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Olmec Empire
rights of states
Proposition 13
Watts Riots
25. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Japanese
legislative branch
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Chinese
26. (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
Chronological order of the colonies
War of 1812
First Continental Congress
Sir Francis Drake
27. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Anasazi culture
tourism
Puritans
French and Indian War
28. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Proclamation of 1763
'strict construction'
Jamestown
tourism
29. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
Mexican - American War
Magnuson Act of 1943
hydraulic mining -
secession
30. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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31. 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
Democratic Republicans
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The Maya Empire
Compromise of 1850
32. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Second Constitutional Congress
Ten Percent Plan
Jose Figueroa
Democratic Republicans
33. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Mono Lake
1850
Central Pacific Railroad
34. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
The Continental Divide
Pony Express
35. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Irish
2002
Confederacy advanage
36. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Father Junipero Serra
Anasazi culture
Mt. Whitney
railroad
37. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
anti - federalists
The Maya Empire
manifest destiny
Chinese
38. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Connecticut Commonwealth
Mt. Whitney
Jose de Galves
Puritans
39. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Exeter Compact
tourism
Central Pacific Railroad
Major battles of the Civil War
40. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Important Battles of the Revolution
Jamestown
November 1849
Jose de Galves
41. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Railroad Act of 1864
Ten Percent Plan
42. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Hiram Johnson
Battle of Gettysberg
Jose de Galves
Death Valley
43. 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
Jose de Galves
The Declaration of Independence
New Government
Ten Percent Plan
44. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
Amendments
Depression of 1870
Lewis and Clark
45. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
water
Gold
Bear Flag Revolt
Trenton
46. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Transcontinental Railroad
railroad
Mt. Whitney
47. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Hernando Cortes
Election of 1876
First Continental Congress
Puritans
48. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Bill of Rights
Transcontinental Railroad
Emanciptation Proclomation
federalism
49. 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
Missouri Compromise of 1820
secession
England and the colonies: differences
the Oregon Territory
50. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Progressives
Whig Party
Modoc War
Federalist Papers
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