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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
The Inca Empire
referendum
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Bill of Rights
2. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
separation of powers
federalism
Central Pacific Railroad
southern anad eastern European
3. Southeatern California native american tribes
Sebastian Cermeno
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Henry Hudson
Owens River
4. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Okies
railroad
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mono Lake
5. People who took land from the original Californios
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Maya Empire
squatters
Central Valley Project
6. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Henry Hudson
Commodore Sloat
rancho system
7. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
Workingmen's Party
World War II
tule
8. 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
Anasazi culture
Sir Francis Drake
Jose Figueroa
Pony Express
9. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Central Valley Project
Great Awakening
The Inca Empire
Rhode Island
10. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Articles of Confederation
Mexican - American War
Appomattox Court
General Stockton and General Kearney
11. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Federalist Party
rights of states
Juan Cabrillo
General Stockton and General Kearney
12. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
reasons of American immigration
Lewis and Clark
Intolerable Acts of 1774
13. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
Francisco Montejo
Modoc War
The Appalachian Mountains
14. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
Hernando Cortes
Mt. Whitney
Watts Riots
Olmec Empire
15. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Father Fermin Lausen
Great Awakening
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Europeans in the New World: Britain
16. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
The Aztec Empire
Mt. Whitney
Juan Cabrillo
how Union defeated Confederates
17. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
water
melting pot
First Continental Congress
Important Battles of the Revolution
18. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
recall
Election of 1876
The Maya Empire
The Mississippi River
19. Drains the interior of the United States
The Mississippi River
Mexican American War
internment camps
Mono Lake
20. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Salton Sea
Georgia
internment camps
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
21. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
black codes
Gold
Railroad Act of 1864
Immigration Act of 1965
22. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Stamp Tax
Russians
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Proclamation of 1763
23. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Jacques Cartier
Mt. Whitney
separation of powers
California
24. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
The Continental Divide
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Toltecs
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
25. In the eastern region of the United States
November 1849
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
the Great Compromise
apparel industry
26. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
tule
Delaware
Jamestown
27. 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
First Continental Congress
Chinese
Trenton
28. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
aeorspace industry
tourism
1850
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
29. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
sacred expedition
Mississippian culture
World War II
Battle of Gettysberg
30. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
the Oregon Territory
Pueblo Indians
entertainment
manifest destiny
31. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
how Union defeated Confederates
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
reasons of American immigration
Owens River
32. 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
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Aztec Empire
Mayflower Compact
England and the colonies: differences
33. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Jacques Cartier
Balboa
Andrew Johnson
Japanese
34. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Maya Empire
Pony Express
Gold
Bill of Rights
35. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Stamp Tax
Bear Flag Revolt
Hopewell people
England and the colonies: differences
36. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Prevailing Westerlies
railroad
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
37. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
tourism
Workingmen's Party
Mono Lake
General Stockton
38. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
water
manifest destiny
federalism
39. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Mexican - American War
Sugar Act
issue of representation under the Constitution
Rhode Island
40. 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
free - soil movement
Federalist Party
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Constitution
41. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Europeans in the New World: France
Chinese
Intolerable Acts of 1774
42. 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
Mexican American War
the Oregon Territory
Compromise of 1850
Lewis and Clark
43. 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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44. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
how Union defeated Confederates
water
Thirteenth Amendment
Panama Canal
45. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Olmec Empire
tule
Sebastian Cermeno
46. 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
Mexican American War
Hernando Cortes
Progressives
executive branch
47. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Father Fermin Lausen
railroad
manifest destiny
New Government
48. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Second Constitutional Congress
Trenton
Puritans
Central Valley Project
49. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Central Valley Project
free - soil movement
Hopewell people
Dust Bowl
50. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Amendments
pueblos
John C. Fremont
Anasazi culture