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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Amerindians
executive branch
judicial branch
2. 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
November 1849
Germans
loose construction
3. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
legislative branch
Battle of Gettysberg
The Gulf Stream
Central Valley
4. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Yorktown
Immigration Act of 1965
Henry Hudson
Mexican Independence
5. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
pueblos
Louisiana Purchase
Confederacy advanage
Connecticut Commonwealth
6. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
The Great Basin
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Appomattox Court
Chinese
7. 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
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Hernando Cortes
Federalist Party
Bill of Rights
8. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi
England and the colonies: differences
Amendments
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
9. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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10. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Connecticut Commonwealth
Europeans in the New World: Spain
manifest destiny
Puritans
11. 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
The Aztec Empire
how Union defeated Confederates
Democratic Republicans
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
12. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
New Government
Compromise of 1850
Chinese
13. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
missions
Gold
Jacksonian democracy
14. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
The Maya Empire
Railroad Act of 1864
merchant Sam Brannon
Francisco Montejo
15. Central California native American tribes
Delaware
Central Pacific Railroad
Great Awakening
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
16. 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
Chinese
Maryland
Land Commission
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
17. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
executive branch
Mexican American War
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
New Government
18. Southeatern California native american tribes
French and Indian War
California Alien Land Act
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Mexican - American War
19. 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
Pueblo Indians
Workingmen's Party
Gentleman's Agreement
20. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
squatters
Owens River
Prevailing Westerlies
Juan Cabrillo
21. 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
Jacques Cartier
missions
Central Pacific Railroad
separation of powers
22. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
the Oregon Territory
The interior
Commodore Sloat
23. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Watts Riots
legislative branch
Jose de Galves
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
24. 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
Compromise of 1850
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Election of 1876
Silicon Valley
25. 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
missions
The Industrial Era of the United States
Federalist Party
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
26. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
aeorspace industry
Commodore Sloat
Father Junipero Serra
27. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Chinese
forty - niners
Juan Cabrillo
The Piedmont
28. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Emanciptation Proclomation
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Okies
judicial branch
29. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Amendments
Central Pacific Railroad
The Gulf Stream
General Stockton
30. 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
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Whig Party
31. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
The Industrial Era of the United States
Revolutionary War
2002
32. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Amerindians
Constitution
Mexican - American War
Anasazi culture
33. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Battle of Gettysberg
Modoc War
The Industrial Era of the United States
34. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Henry Hudson
Hiram Johnson
Juan Cabrillo
Bear Flag Revolt
35. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Mexican - American War
tule
manifest destiny
36. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
initiative
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Hernando Cortez
37. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Watts Riots
Samuel de Champlain
General Stockton and General Kearney
Mississippian culture
38. The lowest point in California
Declaration of Independence
separation of powers
Death Valley
Sebastian Vicaino
39. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Declaration of Independence
The Appalachian Mountains
Hopewell people
Compromise of 1850
40. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
General Stockton and General Kearney
Jacksonian democracy
water
Johann Sutter
41. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Gold
Constitution
Amerindians
executive branch
42. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Pilgrims
executive branch
43. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Toltecs
the Great Compromise
entertainment
Articles of Confederation
44. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Chronological order of the colonies
Rodney Case
New Government
Important Battles of the Revolution
45. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
Bill of Rights
referendum
Sugar Act
46. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World
Mayflower Compact
tule
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
47. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
forty - niners
Mt. Whitney
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Louisiana Purchase
48. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Rhode Island
loose construction
Juan Cabrillo
49. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Father Fermin Lausen
Louisiana Purchase
Amerindians
50. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
The Continental Divide
Transcontinental Railroad
Irish
Jamestown