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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Hopewell people
Connecticut Commonwealth
Stamp Tax
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
2. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Japanese
New Government
3. 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
Mexican Independence
tule
rights of the federal government
referendum
4. 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
Chinese
Andrew Johnson
Bill of Rights
forty - niners
5. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Pilgrims
Constitution
William Penn
Gold
6. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Dust Bowl
Anasazi culture
Proposition 13
Chronological order of the colonies
7. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Silicon Valley
2002
Europeans in the New World: Britain
8. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Proclamation of 1763
Modoc War
free - soil movement
the Great Compromise
9. 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
Three - Fifths Compromise
Proposition 13
Constitution
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
10. 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
Jose Figueroa
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Amerindians
11. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Louisiana Purchase
decline of the Mayan civlization
Jacksonian democracy
legislative branch
12. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
French and Indian War
railroad
The Continental Divide
Johann Sutter
13. A major mountain range in California
Sierra Nevadas
Hetch Hetchy Dam
The southeastern Coastal Plain
California Alien Land Act
14. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Louisiana Purchase
Union advantage
Transcontinental Railroad
the Oregon Territory
15. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Mexicans
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Modoc War
The Industrial Era of the United States
16. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
California Alien Land Act
the Great Compromise
Sierra Nevadas
17. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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18. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
rancho system
Ten Percent Plan
Lewis and Clark
19. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
The Appalachian Mountains
Railroad Act of 1864
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Yorktown
20. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
missions
Exeter Compact
Henry Hudson
John C. Fremont
21. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Death Valley
The Inca Empire
issue of representation under the Constitution
The southeastern Coastal Plain
22. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
Election of 1876
secession
Modoc War
Russians
23. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Trenton
Amendments
Maryland
The Great Basin
24. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
Central Pacific Railroad
Workingmen's Party
Pueblo Indians
25. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
Confederacy advanage
Second Constitutional Congress
French and Indian War
26. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Amendments
Jacques Cartier
Magnuson Act of 1943
rights of the federal government
27. 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
Balboa
The Industrial Era of the United States
separation of powers
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
28. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
The Great Basin
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Francisco Montejo
Union advantage
29. 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
Father Fermin Lausen
separation of powers
southern anad eastern European
Irish
30. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Toltecs
Francisco Montejo
Russians
31. 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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
federalism
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
The Declaration of Independence
32. 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
Tea Act of 1773
Germans
French and Indian War
presidios
33. Southeatern California native american tribes
Mexicans
Amendments
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Silicon Valley
34. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Yorktown
separation of powers
forty - niners
35. 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
Mono Lake
decline of the Mayan civlization
sacred expedition
36. 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
Sir Francis Drake
Important Battles of the Revolution
French and Indian War
37. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Okies
Bill of Rights
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
sacred expedition
38. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
Compromise of 1850
rights of states
Mexican American War
39. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
Prevailing Westerlies
Mexican - American War
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
40. 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
referendum
Pony Express
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Thirteenth Amendment
41. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Puritans
Chronological order of the colonies
Central Valley Project
Ten Percent Plan
42. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
Sebastian Cermeno
John C. Fremont
executive branch
43. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Sierra Nevadas
railroad
Henry Hudson
secession
44. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Bear Flag Revolt
Appomattox Court
California Alien Land Act
Emanciptation Proclomation
45. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
The Piedmont
Lewis and Clark
November 1849
46. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Jose de Galves
Stamp Tax
Sir Francis Drake
Delaware
47. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Three - Fifths Compromise
Pony Express
Dust Bowl
merchant Sam Brannon
48. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Constitution
Three - Fifths Compromise
internment camps
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
49. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Death Valley
Major battles of the Civil War
Three - Fifths Compromise
Appomattox Court
50. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Trenton
Ten Percent Plan
Samuel de Champlain
rights of the federal government