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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Owens River
internment camps
reasons of American immigration
Bill of Rights
2. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
tourism
Father Fermin Lausen
Quartering Act
3. 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
railroad
Exeter Compact
Rhode Island
4. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Francisco Montejo
Owens River
Japanese
Panama Canal
5. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
England and the colonies: differences
Ten Percent Plan
Emanciptation Proclomation
6. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Jose de Galves
Hopewell people
how Union defeated Confederates
merchant Sam Brannon
7. 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
Depression of 1870
Mexican Independence
executive branch
Hetch Hetchy Dam
8. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Constitutional Convention
Bill of Rights
Rhode Island
Hiram Johnson
9. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Democratic Republicans
Pony Express
Jose Figueroa
melting pot
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
Chinese
Magnuson Act of 1943
Hopewell people
War of 1812
11. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Balboa
California
southern anad eastern European
Sugar Act
12. 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
Revolutionary War
judicial branch
recall
Anasazi culture
13. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Hernando Cortez
November 1849
Johann Sutter
Hernando Cortes
14. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
federalism
Election of 1876
Balboa
The Maya Empire
15. 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
Thirteenth Amendment
Whig Party
Sebastian Vicaino
Federalist Papers
16. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Railroad Act of 1864
Sierra Nevadas
entertainment
The interior
17. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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18. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Jacques Cartier
Election of 1876
Delaware
the Oregon Territory
19. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
First Continental Congress
French and Indian War
Bill of Rights
20. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Immigration Act of 1965
Ten Percent Plan
Central Valley
Angel Island
21. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
legislative branch
presidios
Jacksonian democracy
Balboa
22. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Great Awakening
Panama Canal
free - soil movement
Important Battles of the Revolution
23. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Second Constitutional Congress
Hernando Cortez
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
24. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
decline of the Mayan civlization
Chinese
Jacques Cartier
25. Northern California Indian tribes
The Mississippi River
initiative
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
issue of representation under the Constitution
26. 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
black codes
Bear Flag Revolt
Exeter Compact
hydraulic mining -
27. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Amendments
Important Battles of the Revolution
pueblos
28. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
pueblos
separation of powers
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Major battles of the Civil War
29. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
'strict construction'
Democratic Republicans
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Pilgrims
30. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
executive branch
rights of states
legislative branch
the conquistadores
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
melting pot
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
judicial branch
New Government
32. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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33. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
General Stockton
Sebastian Cermeno
34. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Angel Island
Sebastian Vicaino
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
The Great Basin
35. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
The Piedmont
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
merchant Sam Brannon
loose construction
36. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Chinese
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Important Battles of the Revolution
37. 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
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Compromise of 1850
Whig Party
38. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
Amendments
England and the colonies: similarities
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
39. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
Chinese
sacred expedition
England and the colonies: differences
40. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
executive branch
The Declaration of Independence
rights of the federal government
Francisco Montejo
41. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
rancho system
Hernando Cortes
Russians
aeorspace industry
42. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
The Mississippi River
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Irish
43. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
Federalist Papers
Prevailing Westerlies
entertainment
44. (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
Central Pacific Railroad
Sebastian Vicaino
Chronological order of the colonies
Balboa
45. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Railroad Act of 1864
sacred expedition
Hernando Cortes
Silicon Valley
46. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Thirteenth Amendment
Mexican - American War
Pony Express
Central Valley Project
47. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Major battles of the Civil War
Depression of 1870
Constitutional Convention
Mexican Independence
48. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
southern anad eastern European
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Dust Bowl
Townsheld Acts of 1767
49. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Confederacy advanage
tule
Uncle Tom's Cabin
50. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Father Junipero Serra
Bear Flag Revolt
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Bill of Rights
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