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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
2. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
The interior
French and Indian War
Stamp Tax
Mt. Whitney
3. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
French and Indian War
John C. Fremont
General Stockton and General Kearney
Europeans in the New World: France
4. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
Mt. Whitney
the Oregon Territory
Central Pacific Railroad
5. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Balboa
Japanese
Great Awakening
William Penn
6. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
7. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Georgia
missions
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
8. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Pilgrims
1850
presidios
9. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
forty - niners
Progressives
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
the Oregon Territory
10. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
the Oregon Territory
Proposition 13
Mexican - American War
Germans
11. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
forty - niners
The interior
issue of representation under the Constitution
federalism
12. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Samuel de Champlain
Battle of Gettysberg
black codes
issue of representation under the Constitution
13. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
Mt. Whitney
Central Pacific Railroad
Exeter Compact
14. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
War of 1812
Important Battles of the Revolution
Land Commission
Central Valley
15. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
French and Indian War
the conquistadores
Mexican American War
General Stockton
16. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
Toltecs
Hernando Cortez
Anasazi culture
17. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
California Alien Land Act
aeorspace industry
Battle of Gettysberg
18. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Toltecs
French and Indian War
19. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Constitution
Emanciptation Proclomation
Jacksonian democracy
Irish
20. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
separation of powers
nullification
Gold
Central Valley Project
21. 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
federalism
Maryland
Compromise of 1850
Anasazi culture
22. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Constitutional Convention
free - soil movement
Panama Canal
Sugar Act
23. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Amendments
Emanciptation Proclomation
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Trenton
24. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Federalist Papers
recall
the Oregon Territory
First Continental Congress
25. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Balboa
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
26. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
separation of powers
England and the colonies: differences
Battle of Gettysberg
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
27. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
the Great Compromise
The Continental Divide
Europeans in the New World: Britain
apparel industry
28. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Emanciptation Proclomation
Commodore Sloat
tourism
presidios
29. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Three - Fifths Compromise
judicial branch
the Great Compromise
hydraulic mining -
30. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Gold
The interior
missions
Henry Hudson
31. Southern California native american tribes
Thirteenth Amendment
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
rights of the federal government
Johann Sutter
32. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
Amerindians
railroad
Battle of Gettysberg
33. The highest point in California
decline of the Mayan civlization
Jacques Cartier
Mt. Whitney
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
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
Juan Cabrillo
Owens River
New Government
Henry Hudson
35. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
legislative branch
Amendments
Sebastian Cermeno
French and Indian War
36. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Lewis and Clark
General Stockton
Hetch Hetchy Dam
French and Indian War
37. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Three - Fifths Compromise
Panama Canal
The Continental Divide
Toltecs
38. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Okies
reasons of American immigration
Henry Hudson
Gentleman's Agreement
39. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Europeans in the New World: Britain
New Government
William Penn
Delaware
40. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve
Democratic Republicans
Quartering Act
manifest destiny
Uncle Tom's Cabin
41. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Maryland
Bill of Rights
Jamestown
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
42. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Francisco Pizarro
Mexican American War
Sugar Act
43. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Francisco Montejo
Proposition 13
General Stockton
rights of states
44. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Bill of Rights
Mississippian culture
Land Commission
Japanese
45. Lincoln's vice president became president
Andrew Johnson
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Transcontinental Railroad
The Maya Empire
46. 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
apparel industry
California Alien Land Act
the Great Compromise
47. A major mountain range in California
Jacques Cartier
merchant Sam Brannon
rancho system
Sierra Nevadas
48. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Pilgrims
Samuel de Champlain
Mexican - American War
Radical Republicans
49. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
Pilgrims
Johann Sutter
Hernando Cortez
50. 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
Connecticut Commonwealth
The Chinese Exclusion Act
England and the colonies: differences
Angel Island