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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. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
Bill of Rights
Gold
The Gulf Stream
Russians
2. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Progressives
2002
Jacksonian democracy
Balboa
3. The two major deserts in California
World War II
Amerindians
The Inca Empire
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
4. 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
Workingmen's Party
Hiram Johnson
Major battles of the Civil War
5. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Europeans in the New World
Yorktown
Bear Flag Revolt
Europeans in the New World: Spain
6. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Louisiana Purchase
Hernando Cortez
aeorspace industry
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
7. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World
The Mississippi River
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Piedmont
8. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Three - Fifths Compromise
apparel industry
Japanese
California
9. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Revolutionary War
Louisiana Purchase
decline of the Mayan civlization
10. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
referendum
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Henry Hudson
tule
11. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Major battles of the Civil War
Jacques Cartier
hydraulic mining -
Pony Express
12. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
issue of representation under the Constitution
Balboa
Bear Flag Revolt
13. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Central Pacific Railroad
railroad
Olmec Empire
Mexican Independence
14. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
judicial branch
Rodney Case
Jacksonian democracy
England and the colonies: differences
15. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
'strict construction'
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jacques Cartier
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
16. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
hydraulic mining -
melting pot
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
17. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Constitution
Hernando Cortez
anti - federalists
Election of 1876
18. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Progressives
aeorspace industry
Magnuson Act of 1943
19. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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20. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Hiram Johnson
secession
Modoc War
1850
21. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
executive branch
England and the colonies: similarities
New Government
Mexican - American War
22. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
The Mississippi River
Lewis and Clark
Important Battles of the Revolution
The Aztec Empire
23. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Jose Figueroa
Rodney Case
Sir Francis Drake
New Government
24. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Progressives
the conquistadores
federalism
Europeans in the New World: Britain
25. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Sugar Act
Hernando Cortes
World War II
Owens River
26. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
southern anad eastern European
Sugar Act
Mexicans
November 1849
27. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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28. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
The Mississippi River
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Constitutional Convention
Gold
29. 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
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Workingmen's Party
Louisiana Purchase
30. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Okies
The Continental Divide
Thirteenth Amendment
The Great Basin
31. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Jamestown
Germans
Louisiana Purchase
November 1849
32. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mexican - American War
Bill of Rights
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
33. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
reasons of American immigration
The Gulf Stream
Whig Party
Articles of Confederation
34. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Depression of 1870
Sebastian Cermeno
Emanciptation Proclomation
recall
35. 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
executive branch
Jamestown
Land Commission
Balboa
36. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Toltecs
rancho system
Commodore Sloat
Gold
37. A major mountain range in California
Exeter Compact
Angel Island
free - soil movement
Sierra Nevadas
38. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Owens River
acorns
Yorktown
California
39. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
judicial branch
Andrew Johnson
Central Valley
Europeans in the New World: France
40. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Sierra Nevadas
Modoc War
Silicon Valley
41. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
initiative
Hernando Cortez
November 1849
42. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
The Chinese Exclusion Act
federalism
Okies
reasons of American immigration
43. 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
Constitution
Mayflower Compact
The Inca Empire
Panama Canal
44. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
Angel Island
tourism
Lewis and Clark
Proposition 13
45. Lincoln's vice president became president
Angel Island
Andrew Johnson
forty - niners
Modoc War
46. 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
Mayflower Compact
decline of the Mayan civlization
Depression of 1870
Democratic Republicans
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. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
internment camps
the Great Compromise
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Intolerable Acts of 1774
49. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Maryland
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
the conquistadores
Election of 1876
50. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
Panama Canal
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Immigration Act of 1965
Jacques Cartier