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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
1850
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Watts Riots
The Chinese Exclusion Act
2. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Samuel de Champlain
Mono Lake
Silicon Valley
Railroad Act of 1864
3. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
General Stockton
Salton Sea
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
4. 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
Revolutionary War
Irish
Union advantage
General Stockton and General Kearney
5. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
free - soil movement
November 1849
Mexicans
Modoc War
6. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Industrial Era of the United States
Articles of Confederation
anti - federalists
7. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Pony Express
the Great Compromise
recall
England and the colonies: differences
8. 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
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Aztec Empire
Appomattox Court
Sebastian Vicaino
9. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Jacques Cartier
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Chinese
Workingmen's Party
10. 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
Hiram Johnson
Depression of 1870
The Inca Empire
Hetch Hetchy Dam
11. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
French and Indian War
The Maya Empire
Silicon Valley
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
12. 1776 Written by Thomas Jefferson - Based on the ideas of English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke - In Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government' (1690) - he set forth basic ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
anti - federalists
The Great Basin
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Declaration of Independence
13. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Hiram Johnson
Proposition 13
Pilgrims
14. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
The Aztec Empire
Compromise of 1850
Ten Percent Plan
Mexicans
15. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Constitutional Convention
pueblos
General Stockton
16. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
World War II
The Mississippi River
entertainment
Battle of Gettysberg
17. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Jamestown
Thirteenth Amendment
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
18. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Mexican Independence
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
executive branch
19. 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
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Compromise of 1850
Constitution
20. In the eastern region of the United States
Pony Express
Tea Act of 1773
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
21. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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22. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
New Government
Father Fermin Lausen
melting pot
23. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bear Flag Revolt
24. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Francisco Montejo
Father Junipero Serra
sacred expedition
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
25. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
rights of states
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Juan Cabrillo
Okies
26. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Trenton
Dust Bowl
John C. Fremont
Germans
27. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Compromise of 1850
Jose Figueroa
Constitutional Convention
Gentleman's Agreement
28. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
initiative
Ten Percent Plan
Exeter Compact
southern anad eastern European
29. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
The Continental Divide
The interior
executive branch
30. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Dust Bowl
Battle of Gettysberg
Whig Party
Sugar Act
31. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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32. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
how Union defeated Confederates
Gold
Samuel de Champlain
33. 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
Union advantage
England and the colonies: differences
Trenton
merchant Sam Brannon
34. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
England and the colonies: similarities
Mayflower Compact
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
35. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Amendments
loose construction
England and the colonies: similarities
The Industrial Era of the United States
36. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Transcontinental Railroad
tourism
Radical Republicans
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
37. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Progressives
Railroad Act of 1864
Sebastian Vicaino
Appomattox Court
38. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
Silicon Valley
southern anad eastern European
Japanese
Toltecs
39. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
William Penn
Amerindians
Jacques Cartier
Salton Sea
40. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Land Commission
General Stockton and General Kearney
Amendments
Whig Party
41. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Mono Lake
internment camps
Hopewell people
Europeans in the New World: France
42. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
William Penn
rancho system
Tea Act of 1773
Balboa
43. Facilities that the Spanish used to turned to the Indians to establish agricultural fields and learned Christianity. natives also were exposed to disease that they don't have immunity to. Also - brought olive trees and orange trees and introduced whe
Gentleman's Agreement
missions
manifest destiny
Juan Cabrillo
44. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Pueblo Indians
the conquistadores
Transcontinental Railroad
Jose Figueroa
45. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Gulf Stream
Henry Hudson
Pilgrims
46. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Sierra Nevadas
Hopewell people
decline of the Mayan civlization
squatters
47. 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
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48. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Battle of Gettysberg
New Government
acorns
Jacques Cartier
49. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
missions
Modoc War
Confederacy advanage
Hiram Johnson
50. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Missouri Compromise of 1820
free - soil movement
Transcontinental Railroad
Jamestown