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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. A major food staple of California native American tribes
acorns
Depression of 1870
Major battles of the Civil War
legislative branch
2. The lowest point in California
Immigration Act of 1965
Amerindians
Proposition 13
Death Valley
3. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Francisco Pizarro
The Gulf Stream
The Great Basin
Revolutionary War
4. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The Maya Empire
The interior
squatters
Europeans in the New World: Britain
5. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Chronological order of the colonies
legislative branch
The Inca Empire
black codes
6. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Great Awakening
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Angel Island
Emanciptation Proclomation
7. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Pilgrims
The Inca Empire
'strict construction'
rights of the federal government
8. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Maryland
Balboa
Radical Republicans
Mexican - American War
9. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Important Battles of the Revolution
Compromise of 1850
William Penn
10. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
The Mississippi River
Lewis and Clark
Quartering Act
Dust Bowl
11. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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12. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Bear Flag Revolt
Watts Riots
Irish
Henry Hudson
13. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jamestown
Federalist Party
Mexican American War
French and Indian War
14. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
federalism
Mexicans
Angel Island
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
15. 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
aeorspace industry
Pueblo Indians
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Articles of Confederation
16. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Sierra Nevadas
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
railroad
Francisco Pizarro
17. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Okies
Tea Act of 1773
Prevailing Westerlies
Germans
18. 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
pueblos
Revolutionary War
Proposition 13
The Chinese Exclusion Act
19. In the eastern region of the United States
Henry Hudson
Constitution
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
recall
20. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Yorktown
issue of representation under the Constitution
Land Commission
The Mississippi River
21. (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
Chronological order of the colonies
Bear Flag Revolt
Central Pacific Railroad
William Penn
22. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Central Valley Project
Great Awakening
how Union defeated Confederates
Election of 1876
23. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Proclamation of 1763
Mexican - American War
Progressives
Anasazi culture
24. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Europeans in the New World: France
Depression of 1870
The Mississippi River
water
25. 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
Whig Party
The Appalachian Mountains
England and the colonies: similarities
nullification
26. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
John C. Fremont
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Hernando Cortez
Pueblo Indians
27. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Andrew Johnson
Amerindians
Hernando Cortes
Mexican - American War
28. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
French and Indian War
The Inca Empire
Chinese
General Stockton and General Kearney
29. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Olmec Empire
missions
Constitutional Convention
executive branch
30. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Hopewell people
Maryland
Louisiana Purchase
Irish
31. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
California
Georgia
Mexicans
tourism
32. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Radical Republicans
Mexican American War
California
Railroad Act of 1864
33. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Father Junipero Serra
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
34. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Lewis and Clark
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Tea Act of 1773
Federalist Papers
35. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
railroad
Olmec Empire
referendum
nullification
36. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
the Oregon Territory
Major battles of the Civil War
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
37. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
forty - niners
World War II
separation of powers
38. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Pony Express
Okies
Trenton
39. 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
Olmec Empire
Irish
Okies
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
40. (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
Salton Sea
Major battles of the Civil War
The Continental Divide
Japanese
41. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
how Union defeated Confederates
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Tea Act of 1773
French and Indian War
42. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Okies
Exeter Compact
the conquistadores
Townsheld Acts of 1767
43. A major mountain range in California
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
rancho system
Sierra Nevadas
the Great Compromise
44. 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
The Inca Empire
French and Indian War
Mexican American War
45. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Commodore Sloat
Sebastian Cermeno
aeorspace industry
Battle of Gettysberg
46. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
2002
William Penn
Constitution
47. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Delaware
The Industrial Era of the United States
48. 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
Bear Flag Revolt
Constitution
Emanciptation Proclomation
Great Awakening
49. 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
executive branch
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
referendum
England and the colonies: differences
50. 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
Three - Fifths Compromise
Death Valley
Depression of 1870
Compromise of 1850