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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
World War II
Louisiana Purchase
entertainment
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
2. 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
anti - federalists
Trenton
Proposition 13
Constitution
3. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
pueblos
aeorspace industry
Gold
Central Valley
4. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
legislative branch
Father Junipero Serra
Appomattox Court
tule
5. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
England and the colonies: differences
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
6. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Second Constitutional Congress
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Mexican - American War
Samuel de Champlain
7. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Silicon Valley
Railroad Act of 1864
Democratic Republicans
decline of the Mayan civlization
8. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
The Industrial Era of the United States
Declaration of Independence
tourism
Federalist Papers
9. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Jacques Cartier
Hetch Hetchy Dam
manifest destiny
Rodney Case
10. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Germans
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Confederacy advanage
aeorspace industry
11. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Progressives
Pilgrims
Mexican - American War
pueblos
12. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
Pilgrims
Gentleman's Agreement
Jamestown
13. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Confederacy advanage
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Henry Hudson
Gentleman's Agreement
14. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
acorns
Great Awakening
15. 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
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The interior
Sir Francis Drake
16. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Appomattox Court
squatters
The Aztec Empire
17. 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
18. 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
French and Indian War
California Alien Land Act
Irish
Union advantage
19. 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
Articles of Confederation
black codes
recall
Central Valley Project
20. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Europeans in the New World
Sebastian Cermeno
The interior
Anasazi culture
21. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
The Aztec Empire
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Constitutional Convention
Central Valley Project
22. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
southern anad eastern European
The Great Basin
The Declaration of Independence
The Maya Empire
23. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
manifest destiny
Sebastian Cermeno
24. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
Magnuson Act of 1943
tule
Father Fermin Lausen
25. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Pueblo Indians
French and Indian War
Mexican - American War
26. 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
Mono Lake
initiative
The Maya Empire
Maryland
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
Amerindians
Modoc War
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Democratic Republicans
28. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
The Maya Empire
railroad
rancho system
Germans
29. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Gold
Confederacy advanage
Important Battles of the Revolution
30. An era fueled by availabliity of a cheap labor pool in the form of recent immigrants. Newly built factories attracted even more immigrants to the states
Germans
manifest destiny
The Industrial Era of the United States
The southeastern Coastal Plain
31. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Union advantage
entertainment
squatters
32. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
referendum
Mayflower Compact
Uncle Tom's Cabin
southern anad eastern European
33. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
apparel industry
judicial branch
Sebastian Cermeno
Amendments
34. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
2002
Major battles of the Civil War
Salton Sea
Japanese
35. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Maryland
Chinese
Jose de Galves
Mexican American War
36. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Owens River
1850
black codes
Chinese
37. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic
Hiram Johnson
The Inca Empire
French and Indian War
Owens River
38. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Constitutional Convention
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Whig Party
39. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
squatters
Chinese
New Government
Panama Canal
40. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
Proclamation of 1763
Jamestown
Bill of Rights
41. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Articles of Confederation
Hiram Johnson
Commodore Sloat
Watts Riots
42. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Germans
The Declaration of Independence
43. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Democratic Republicans
Johann Sutter
apparel industry
'strict construction'
44. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Toltecs
Gold
Mayflower Compact
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
45. (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
missions
Japanese
French and Indian War
Chronological order of the colonies
46. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Great Basin
'strict construction'
The Appalachian Mountains
Toltecs
47. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Father Junipero Serra
Thirteenth Amendment
Rhode Island
California Alien Land Act
48. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Election of 1876
California Alien Land Act
legislative branch
Francisco Pizarro
49. Drains the interior of the United States
The Mississippi River
how Union defeated Confederates
manifest destiny
Declaration of Independence
50. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Andrew Johnson
referendum
Depression of 1870
Father Junipero Serra