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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Exeter Compact
Hernando Cortes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Watts Riots
2. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Appomattox Court
judicial branch
Central Valley Project
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
3. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Chinese
The Gulf Stream
Second Constitutional Congress
Federalist Papers
4. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Germans
French and Indian War
Ten Percent Plan
Georgia
5. 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
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Rodney Case
William Penn
Great Awakening
6. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
reasons of American immigration
how Union defeated Confederates
First Continental Congress
initiative
7. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
John C. Fremont
Juan Cabrillo
Chinese
nullification
8. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Death Valley
Declaration of Independence
Jacques Cartier
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
9. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
General Stockton
Japanese
Jacques Cartier
Amerindians
10. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Stamp Tax
Chinese
Mississippian culture
Democratic Republicans
11. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Jose de Galves
Mono Lake
Constitutional Convention
Mayflower Compact
12. 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
Election of 1876
recall
The Inca Empire
War of 1812
13. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
Great Awakening
Rodney Case
Irish
14. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
Mono Lake
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Johann Sutter
15. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Gold
Francisco Montejo
California
Important Battles of the Revolution
16. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Bill of Rights
First Continental Congress
The Chinese Exclusion Act
17. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
the Oregon Territory
anti - federalists
Samuel de Champlain
Sir Francis Drake
18. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Federalist Papers
manifest destiny
Mexicans
separation of powers
19. 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
Rhode Island
Japanese
hydraulic mining -
The Gulf Stream
20. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
loose construction
Rhode Island
Declaration of Independence
melting pot
21. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Dust Bowl
The Maya Empire
Exeter Compact
Amerindians
22. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Articles of Confederation
Trenton
Mexican American War
southern anad eastern European
23. 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
Jose Figueroa
Modoc War
presidios
Transcontinental Railroad
24. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
French and Indian War
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
internment camps
25. 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 Great Compromise
Hernando Cortez
Land Commission
Hetch Hetchy Dam
26. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
legislative branch
the Oregon Territory
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Death Valley
27. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Pilgrims
decline of the Mayan civlization
Gold
Hernando Cortez
28. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Germans
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Declaration of Independence
Central Pacific Railroad
29. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Gentleman's Agreement
Louisiana Purchase
War of 1812
Radical Republicans
30. (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
The Inca Empire
Chronological order of the colonies
Balboa
Mayflower Compact
31. The highest point in California
Thirteenth Amendment
Lewis and Clark
sacred expedition
Mt. Whitney
32. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Johann Sutter
Workingmen's Party
the Oregon Territory
33. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Delaware
water
initiative
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
34. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
pueblos
Federalist Party
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Germans
35. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
recall
Father Junipero Serra
Delaware
36. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Bill of Rights
General Stockton
Sebastian Cermeno
Europeans in the New World: Spain
37. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Democratic Republicans
decline of the Mayan civlization
secession
38. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Mexican Independence
squatters
Mexican American War
Magnuson Act of 1943
39. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Olmec Empire
Intolerable Acts of 1774
free - soil movement
40. 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
Sugar Act
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Mayflower Compact
41. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
squatters
manifest destiny
Whig Party
Railroad Act of 1864
42. 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
how Union defeated Confederates
Mexican Independence
Federalist Party
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
43. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Chronological order of the colonies
pueblos
reasons of American immigration
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
44. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
England and the colonies: differences
Bill of Rights
New Government
Owens River
45. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
Mississippian culture
Revolutionary War
Henry Hudson
Sugar Act
46. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Proposition 13
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Mexicans
The southeastern Coastal Plain
47. 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
2002
how Union defeated Confederates
Chronological order of the colonies
The Aztec Empire
48. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Whig Party
aeorspace industry
The Mississippi River
Battle of Gettysberg
49. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Union advantage
Bill of Rights
Proposition 13
Depression of 1870
50. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Okies
acorns
legislative branch
John C. Fremont