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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Okies
missions
legislative branch
Second Constitutional Congress
2. 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
The Aztec Empire
Appomattox Court
Revolutionary War
Mt. Whitney
3. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Balboa
Bill of Rights
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Sierra Nevadas
4. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
Quartering Act
England and the colonies: similarities
Dust Bowl
5. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
entertainment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
melting pot
6. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Bill of Rights
Whig Party
Europeans in the New World: France
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
7. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Jamestown
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
New Government
Chinese
8. 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
Rodney Case
Pilgrims
Mexican Independence
Constitutional Convention
9. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Union advantage
Quartering Act
Father Fermin Lausen
The Aztec Empire
10. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
sacred expedition
Silicon Valley
rights of the federal government
black codes
11. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
The Continental Divide
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Proclamation of 1763
legislative branch
12. 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
Revolutionary War
Francisco Montejo
Europeans in the New World: France
Union advantage
13. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
The Piedmont
Hopewell people
the Great Compromise
sacred expedition
14. 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
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Sir Francis Drake
California Alien Land Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
15. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Europeans in the New World
Johann Sutter
Maryland
Louisiana Purchase
16. Lincoln's vice president became president
Andrew Johnson
'strict construction'
Magnuson Act of 1943
Europeans in the New World
17. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Depression of 1870
Jose de Galves
reasons of American immigration
World War II
18. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
decline of the Mayan civlization
Thirteenth Amendment
melting pot
19. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
manifest destiny
Chinese
World War II
secession
20. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
Mt. Whitney
merchant Sam Brannon
Europeans in the New World: France
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
21. 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
Amerindians
French and Indian War
Thirteenth Amendment
Townsheld Acts of 1767
22. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Progressives
Battle of Gettysberg
Salton Sea
Jacksonian democracy
23. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
California Alien Land Act
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Father Junipero Serra
24. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
secession
Federalist Party
Mayflower Compact
Prevailing Westerlies
25. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
federalism
Delaware
Central Pacific Railroad
reasons of American immigration
26. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
1850
Jacques Cartier
General Stockton and General Kearney
Central Valley Project
27. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed
Exeter Compact
anti - federalists
Pony Express
Mexican Independence
28. 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
pueblos
Yorktown
Election of 1876
Hernando Cortes
29. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
The Appalachian Mountains
Federalist Papers
2002
Progressives
30. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
The Maya Empire
Balboa
Constitutional Convention
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
31. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Exeter Compact
Germans
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
aeorspace industry
32. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
forty - niners
legislative branch
issue of representation under the Constitution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
33. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Bear Flag Revolt
apparel industry
Puritans
southern anad eastern European
34. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
General Stockton and General Kearney
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Sebastian Vicaino
Central Valley
35. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Radical Republicans
Chinese
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Anasazi culture
36. 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
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
referendum
French and Indian War
'strict construction'
37. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Confederacy advanage
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
38. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
Proclamation of 1763
the Great Compromise
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
water
39. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
French and Indian War
Yorktown
separation of powers
Father Junipero Serra
40. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
rights of states
Exeter Compact
Japanese
secession
41. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
executive branch
Yorktown
42. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
melting pot
Bill of Rights
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Whig Party
43. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Amerindians
Quartering Act
Hopewell people
The Maya Empire
44. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Sebastian Cermeno
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Land Commission
Juan Cabrillo
45. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Silicon Valley
Amendments
California Alien Land Act
executive branch
46. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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47. 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
legislative branch
Chinese
Transcontinental Railroad
48. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Hernando Cortez
Compromise of 1850
Central Pacific Railroad
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
49. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Father Junipero Serra
Union advantage
50. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
Prevailing Westerlies
Bill of Rights
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882