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CSET U.S And California History
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1. The central agricultural area of California
Bill of Rights
executive branch
Central Valley
Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Sir Francis Drake
rancho system
General Stockton and General Kearney
Juan Cabrillo
3. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
The Great Basin
The Chinese Exclusion Act
rights of the federal government
Thirteenth Amendment
4. 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
2002
Central Valley Project
tourism
Whig Party
5. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Jamestown
Immigration Act of 1965
The Piedmont
Prevailing Westerlies
6. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Constitution
Gold
Second Constitutional Congress
Emanciptation Proclomation
7. 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.
Juan Cabrillo
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Declaration of Independence
8. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Watts Riots
Father Fermin Lausen
the Great Compromise
The Maya Empire
9. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
World War II
Balboa
Prevailing Westerlies
10. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
The Mississippi River
Hetch Hetchy Dam
manifest destiny
hydraulic mining -
11. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Declaration of Independence
Battle of Gettysberg
Anasazi culture
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
12. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Mexican - American War
The Aztec Empire
Francisco Pizarro
13. 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
Democratic Republicans
Stamp Tax
Radical Republicans
merchant Sam Brannon
14. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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15. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Mexican American War
War of 1812
The Continental Divide
water
16. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
rights of states
November 1849
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
reasons of American immigration
17. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Europeans in the New World
the Oregon Territory
Juan Cabrillo
Europeans in the New World: France
18. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
England and the colonies: similarities
Progressives
California
Intolerable Acts of 1774
19. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
executive branch
The Great Basin
Johann Sutter
Townsheld Acts of 1767
20. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
sacred expedition
Exeter Compact
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Inca Empire
21. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Amendments
Prevailing Westerlies
Trenton
Quartering Act
22. People who took land from the original Californios
World War II
anti - federalists
squatters
Chronological order of the colonies
23. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Amerindians
Juan Cabrillo
Lewis and Clark
legislative branch
24. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Anasazi culture
Election of 1876
Bill of Rights
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
25. 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
The interior
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
secession
nullification
26. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Sebastian Vicaino
Great Awakening
War of 1812
'strict construction'
27. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
separation of powers
Sierra Nevadas
Pueblo Indians
28. The lowest point in California
Gentleman's Agreement
Yorktown
Compromise of 1850
Death Valley
29. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
squatters
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Pueblo Indians
how Union defeated Confederates
30. Southern California native american tribes
Father Fermin Lausen
tule
Hernando Cortes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
31. 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
Proposition 13
2002
Jose de Galves
32. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mississippian culture
The Great Basin
Sebastian Vicaino
33. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Federalist Papers
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Great Basin
Sebastian Vicaino
34. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
reasons of American immigration
Major battles of the Civil War
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Hiram Johnson
35. 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
Francisco Montejo
initiative
Modoc War
The southeastern Coastal Plain
36. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
apparel industry
secession
French and Indian War
acorns
37. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Dust Bowl
England and the colonies: differences
free - soil movement
water
38. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Pilgrims
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
39. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Railroad Act of 1864
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Election of 1876
40. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Proclamation of 1763
Russians
Three - Fifths Compromise
Federalist Party
41. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Panama Canal
Anasazi culture
Bill of Rights
Hopewell people
42. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
First Continental Congress
forty - niners
Immigration Act of 1965
Missouri Compromise of 1820
43. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Jamestown
Mexican Independence
Maryland
how Union defeated Confederates
44. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Okies
Mexican - American War
Emanciptation Proclomation
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
45. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Mexican - American War
Modoc War
entertainment
missions
46. A major food staple of California native American tribes
acorns
The Continental Divide
Bill of Rights
Bear Flag Revolt
47. 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
Mexicans
Proposition 13
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
48. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
water
melting pot
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Magnuson Act of 1943
49. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Father Junipero Serra
hydraulic mining -
Federalist Papers
Transcontinental Railroad
50. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Connecticut Commonwealth
California Alien Land Act
loose construction
reasons of American immigration