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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
World War II
Chinese
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Three - Fifths Compromise
2. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Henry Hudson
Georgia
Jamestown
Samuel de Champlain
3. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Okies
Union advantage
Modoc War
the Oregon Territory
4. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Owens River
Proposition 13
Battle of Gettysberg
Commodore Sloat
5. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Rhode Island
hydraulic mining -
6. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Juan Cabrillo
Jose Figueroa
Appomattox Court
black codes
7. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
apparel industry
Great Awakening
Sugar Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
8. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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9. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Europeans in the New World: Britain
The Declaration of Independence
Russians
melting pot
10. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
Maryland
Emanciptation Proclomation
Land Commission
rights of states
11. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Johann Sutter
Bear Flag Revolt
Chronological order of the colonies
Chinese
12. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
England and the colonies: similarities
Pueblo Indians
Whig Party
sacred expedition
13. 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
pueblos
War of 1812
rights of states
England and the colonies: differences
14. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
The Great Basin
Sir Francis Drake
California Alien Land Act
southern anad eastern European
15. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Revolutionary War
Union advantage
Radical Republicans
Hernando Cortez
16. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
Hopewell people
Louisiana Purchase
Toltecs
17. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Rodney Case
anti - federalists
Yorktown
black codes
18. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
California Alien Land Act
Pueblo Indians
Chinese
aeorspace industry
19. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Europeans in the New World
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Constitutional Convention
Central Pacific Railroad
20. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Chinese
Articles of Confederation
railroad
decline of the Mayan civlization
21. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
squatters
Europeans in the New World: France
Mexican - American War
Appomattox Court
22. 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
Ten Percent Plan
Constitutional Convention
England and the colonies: similarities
forty - niners
23. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Compromise of 1850
Sebastian Cermeno
Townsheld Acts of 1767
24. 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
Yorktown
hydraulic mining -
Ten Percent Plan
1850
25. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
executive branch
Andrew Johnson
The Continental Divide
26. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Commodore Sloat
Georgia
manifest destiny
November 1849
27. 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
internment camps
free - soil movement
Jose de Galves
Father Fermin Lausen
28. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Chinese
Constitutional Convention
legislative branch
29. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
The Inca Empire
Francisco Montejo
Amerindians
General Stockton
30. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
The Mississippi River
Trenton
Olmec Empire
Francisco Montejo
31. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
Immigration Act of 1965
executive branch
free - soil movement
The Piedmont
32. 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
Trenton
referendum
squatters
Revolutionary War
33. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Hernando Cortez
Transcontinental Railroad
1850
Panama Canal
34. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
squatters
The Appalachian Mountains
Commodore Sloat
aeorspace industry
35. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Europeans in the New World
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
rancho system
Sugar Act
36. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
Constitutional Convention
Tea Act of 1773
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Rodney Case
37. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
Great Awakening
Quartering Act
Gentleman's Agreement
38. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
merchant Sam Brannon
Silicon Valley
Jamestown
Puritans
39. 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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
how Union defeated Confederates
Federalist Party
First Continental Congress
40. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Quartering Act
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
California
forty - niners
41. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Whig Party
Great Awakening
Jose de Galves
Magnuson Act of 1943
42. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Emanciptation Proclomation
Ten Percent Plan
Europeans in the New World
federalism
43. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
missions
First Continental Congress
Railroad Act of 1864
Jose Figueroa
44. 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
The Aztec Empire
Railroad Act of 1864
forty - niners
squatters
45. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Europeans in the New World: France
legislative branch
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Bear Flag Revolt
46. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
Central Valley Project
decline of the Mayan civlization
Mt. Whitney
47. 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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48. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Pilgrims
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
free - soil movement
Major battles of the Civil War
49. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Depression of 1870
initiative
Declaration of Independence
50. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
William Penn
Second Constitutional Congress
Townsheld Acts of 1767
presidios
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