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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
recall
Irish
Europeans in the New World: France
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
2. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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3. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Panama Canal
2002
November 1849
4. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
The Great Basin
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Confederacy advanage
Rodney Case
5. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Mt. Whitney
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Lewis and Clark
6. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
The Appalachian Mountains
Union advantage
Johann Sutter
Chronological order of the colonies
7. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
Sebastian Cermeno
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Balboa
8. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
legislative branch
French and Indian War
Mayflower Compact
Lewis and Clark
9. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Anasazi culture
Quartering Act
General Stockton
10. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Jose de Galves
pueblos
Missouri Compromise of 1820
the Oregon Territory
11. 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
Mono Lake
referendum
Compromise of 1850
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
12. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
executive branch
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Proposition 13
John C. Fremont
13. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Gentleman's Agreement
Georgia
Amendments
The Declaration of Independence
14. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Europeans in the New World
Russians
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
15. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Andrew Johnson
Yorktown
Hernando Cortes
Constitution
16. The central agricultural area of California
England and the colonies: similarities
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Central Valley
legislative branch
17. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Magnuson Act of 1943
California
Europeans in the New World
Gentleman's Agreement
18. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
issue of representation under the Constitution
Proposition 13
manifest destiny
19. Southern California native american tribes
judicial branch
Dust Bowl
2002
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
20. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Great Awakening
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Thirteenth Amendment
forty - niners
21. 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
Johann Sutter
hydraulic mining -
1850
Chinese
22. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Revolutionary War
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
apparel industry
War of 1812
23. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
William Penn
Hopewell people
Father Fermin Lausen
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
24. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Election of 1876
Major battles of the Civil War
loose construction
The Mississippi River
25. Drains the interior of the United States
Great Awakening
World War II
The Mississippi River
Uncle Tom's Cabin
26. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
free - soil movement
Toltecs
1850
Commodore Sloat
27. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Jose Figueroa
Louisiana Purchase
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Chinese
28. 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
The Mississippi River
southern anad eastern European
The interior
29. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Battle of Gettysberg
Silicon Valley
30. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Railroad Act of 1864
executive branch
The Continental Divide
31. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
how Union defeated Confederates
The Inca Empire
Watts Riots
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
32. 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
merchant Sam Brannon
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Central Valley Project
Great Awakening
33. 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
The Inca Empire
Constitutional Convention
judicial branch
Okies
34. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Russians
Anasazi culture
California
35. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Central Pacific Railroad
Revolutionary War
36. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Depression of 1870
sacred expedition
Whig Party
Pilgrims
37. People who took land from the original Californios
squatters
Railroad Act of 1864
Important Battles of the Revolution
Trenton
38. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
manifest destiny
Workingmen's Party
Dust Bowl
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
39. 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
Railroad Act of 1864
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Election of 1876
The Piedmont
40. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Europeans in the New World: Spain
General Stockton
First Continental Congress
41. 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
decline of the Mayan civlization
Democratic Republicans
Irish
referendum
42. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
Land Commission
judicial branch
the Oregon Territory
Quartering Act
43. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
War of 1812
Georgia
Father Junipero Serra
Russians
44. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Immigration Act of 1965
Owens River
World War II
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
45. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Major battles of the Civil War
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Immigration Act of 1965
secession
46. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Emanciptation Proclomation
Three - Fifths Compromise
separation of powers
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
47. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
legislative branch
Three - Fifths Compromise
Constitution
The Piedmont
48. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Death Valley
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Henry Hudson
Stamp Tax
49. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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50. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
rancho system
The Declaration of Independence
Thirteenth Amendment
pueblos