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CSET U.S And California History
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1. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
internment camps
Revolutionary War
initiative
Georgia
2. 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
Jose de Galves
The Industrial Era of the United States
The Piedmont
Mexican American War
3. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
acorns
Commodore Sloat
Hernando Cortez
Chinese
4. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
rights of the federal government
Balboa
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Mono Lake
5. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
The Appalachian Mountains
Revolutionary War
Francisco Pizarro
Pueblo Indians
6. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
Revolutionary War
General Stockton
The interior
Lewis and Clark
7. The central agricultural area of California
Johann Sutter
internment camps
Central Valley
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
8. 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
recall
Constitution
Immigration Act of 1965
World War II
9. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
William Penn
The Inca Empire
The Declaration of Independence
internment camps
10. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Juan Cabrillo
Salton Sea
Magnuson Act of 1943
federalism
11. Southern California native american tribes
Prevailing Westerlies
Commodore Sloat
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Mississippian culture
12. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Yorktown
Central Valley
The Declaration of Independence
Francisco Montejo
13. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Connecticut Commonwealth
Mono Lake
Balboa
Sir Francis Drake
14. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
judicial branch
Owens River
Mexican Independence
15. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Russians
Europeans in the New World
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Constitutional Convention
16. 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
Pony Express
Henry Hudson
acorns
Quartering Act
17. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Federalist Party
Appomattox Court
Stamp Tax
pueblos
18. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Mexican American War
reasons of American immigration
New Government
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
19. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
judicial branch
Ten Percent Plan
Whig Party
railroad
20. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Battle of Gettysberg
Constitution
sacred expedition
Appomattox Court
21. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
Okies
War of 1812
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
22. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Georgia
Jose Figueroa
Silicon Valley
Salton Sea
23. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Sierra Nevadas
Thirteenth Amendment
Hiram Johnson
General Stockton
24. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
England and the colonies: similarities
Three - Fifths Compromise
Panama Canal
Jamestown
25. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
federalism
black codes
Puritans
the conquistadores
26. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Georgia
legislative branch
Jacksonian democracy
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
27. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
The Mississippi River
Railroad Act of 1864
Anasazi culture
acorns
28. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Mayflower Compact
Mississippian culture
Sebastian Vicaino
the conquistadores
29. 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
The Maya Empire
Prevailing Westerlies
Modoc War
Magnuson Act of 1943
30. 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
The Aztec Empire
Townsheld Acts of 1767
manifest destiny
31. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
black codes
Johann Sutter
Germans
Jacksonian democracy
32. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
1850
Juan Cabrillo
Great Awakening
William Penn
33. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Commodore Sloat
Toltecs
Japanese
John C. Fremont
34. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Europeans in the New World
Constitutional Convention
Delaware
35. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
issue of representation under the Constitution
Transcontinental Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Bill of Rights
36. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Second Constitutional Congress
Exeter Compact
The Chinese Exclusion Act
37. (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
Major battles of the Civil War
melting pot
referendum
Pony Express
38. The priimary entry point for the immigrants from Asia
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
acorns
Angel Island
Mayflower Compact
39. 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
William Penn
Modoc War
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Second Constitutional Congress
40. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Sugar Act
General Stockton
Articles of Confederation
41. 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
The Continental Divide
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Jose Figueroa
referendum
42. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Jamestown
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World
southern anad eastern European
43. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
'strict construction'
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Louisiana Purchase
44. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
rights of the federal government
World War II
Okies
Owens River
45. 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
Mexican - American War
rancho system
initiative
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
46. 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
Salton Sea
Chronological order of the colonies
William Penn
47. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Germans
decline of the Mayan civlization
acorns
2002
48. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Sebastian Vicaino
Union advantage
forty - niners
49. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Hernando Cortes
the Oregon Territory
The Continental Divide
acorns
50. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
the Oregon Territory
Depression of 1870
Constitution
free - soil movement