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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Puritans
Europeans in the New World
Mexican American War
Salton Sea
2. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Owens River
Europeans in the New World: France
hydraulic mining -
aeorspace industry
3. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
The Mississippi River
Depression of 1870
Hopewell people
Owens River
4. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Ten Percent Plan
Immigration Act of 1965
World War II
Great Awakening
5. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
recall
separation of powers
Thirteenth Amendment
The Piedmont
6. 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
Pony Express
loose construction
Chinese
Emanciptation Proclomation
7. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World
Hiram Johnson
Jacques Cartier
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
8. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Death Valley
Emanciptation Proclomation
The Appalachian Mountains
merchant Sam Brannon
9. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Central Pacific Railroad
separation of powers
The southeastern Coastal Plain
10. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
General Stockton
Confederacy advanage
Johann Sutter
merchant Sam Brannon
11. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Jacksonian democracy
Magnuson Act of 1943
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
federalism
12. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
Federalist Papers
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
forty - niners
Hernando Cortes
13. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Panama Canal
Silicon Valley
Johann Sutter
The Appalachian Mountains
14. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Olmec Empire
pueblos
Declaration of Independence
Europeans in the New World: Spain
15. (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
the Great Compromise
Major battles of the Civil War
railroad
internment camps
16. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
manifest destiny
Sir Francis Drake
apparel industry
Sugar Act
17. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Great Awakening
railroad
tourism
Confederacy advanage
18. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Jamestown
Magnuson Act of 1943
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
19. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Battle of Gettysberg
Amendments
French and Indian War
Radical Republicans
20. 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
Irish
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Sugar Act
secession
21. 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
executive branch
Jose de Galves
The Appalachian Mountains
Gold
22. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
Mexicans
Rodney Case
Jamestown
The Maya Empire
23. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
judicial branch
Johann Sutter
Appomattox Court
England and the colonies: differences
24. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Election of 1876
Salton Sea
Delaware
melting pot
25. 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
Uncle Tom's Cabin
railroad
Modoc War
squatters
26. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Jacksonian democracy
railroad
Salton Sea
California
27. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Great Awakening
Jose de Galves
28. 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
Union advantage
Central Valley Project
Bill of Rights
Connecticut Commonwealth
29. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
New Government
tule
Second Constitutional Congress
30. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
manifest destiny
Central Pacific Railroad
Chinese
Hopewell people
31. Southeatern California native american tribes
secession
General Stockton
federalism
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
32. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Bear Flag Revolt
Mt. Whitney
Lewis and Clark
Proclamation of 1763
33. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Francisco Montejo
pueblos
black codes
Stamp Tax
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
Exeter Compact
missions
Stamp Tax
Whig Party
35. 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
Election of 1876
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
how Union defeated Confederates
hydraulic mining -
36. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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37. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
southern anad eastern European
Proclamation of 1763
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
38. 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
Chinese
sacred expedition
secession
Proclamation of 1763
39. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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40. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
Watts Riots
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Juan Cabrillo
41. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
Immigration Act of 1965
Lewis and Clark
melting pot
42. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Europeans in the New World: Spain
anti - federalists
decline of the Mayan civlization
how Union defeated Confederates
43. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Townsheld Acts of 1767
the conquistadores
Louisiana Purchase
44. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
The Great Basin
missions
Samuel de Champlain
Transcontinental Railroad
45. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Confederacy advanage
Angel Island
Radical Republicans
forty - niners
46. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
The Gulf Stream
Declaration of Independence
Bear Flag Revolt
47. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Convention
Prevailing Westerlies
Johann Sutter
48. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
federalism
Jacques Cartier
executive branch
Europeans in the New World: Spain
49. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
Anasazi culture
Balboa
Election of 1876
Salton Sea
50. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Proclamation of 1763
Olmec Empire
French and Indian War
Chronological order of the colonies