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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Quartering Act
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Samuel de Champlain
2. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Sebastian Cermeno
Okies
Amerindians
Mississippian culture
3. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Mexicans
Constitution
Election of 1876
4. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Central Pacific Railroad
The Continental Divide
separation of powers
5. 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
Modoc War
William Penn
Three - Fifths Compromise
water
6. Conduct elections - ratify amendments to constitution - issue licenses - regulate intrastate (within state) to business - establish local governments - take measures for public health and safety - any other powers that the Constitution does not reser
Hiram Johnson
rights of states
Jose Figueroa
Amendments
7. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
apparel industry
Rhode Island
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bill of Rights
8. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Mexican American War
entertainment
how Union defeated Confederates
rights of the federal government
9. 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
Japanese
The Industrial Era of the United States
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
The Piedmont
10. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
anti - federalists
Mississippian culture
General Stockton
Federalist Party
11. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Sugar Act
Maryland
General Stockton and General Kearney
12. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Central Valley Project
tourism
Depression of 1870
Sebastian Vicaino
13. 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
loose construction
Maryland
French and Indian War
Sir Francis Drake
14. 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
rights of the federal government
Sugar Act
Whig Party
executive branch
15. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Bill of Rights
Jose de Galves
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
16. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Anasazi culture
Proposition 13
England and the colonies: similarities
California
17. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Commodore Sloat
nullification
the conquistadores
separation of powers
18. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
The Declaration of Independence
apparel industry
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Dust Bowl
19. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Revolutionary War
Compromise of 1850
Mexican - American War
federalism
20. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Okies
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Democratic Republicans
Depression of 1870
21. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Mexican - American War
tule
New Government
Townsheld Acts of 1767
22. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Amerindians
2002
Battle of Gettysberg
Compromise of 1850
23. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Owens River
Mississippian culture
Stamp Tax
Sir Francis Drake
24. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
2002
Amendments
Anasazi culture
The Continental Divide
25. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Constitutional Convention
Death Valley
26. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
William Penn
Watts Riots
27. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
sacred expedition
Jacques Cartier
The Maya Empire
Jose Figueroa
28. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
The Inca Empire
Democratic Republicans
free - soil movement
Railroad Act of 1864
29. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
2002
Ten Percent Plan
Toltecs
Sugar Act
30. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Sebastian Vicaino
Union advantage
Democratic Republicans
Henry Hudson
31. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Chinese
Owens River
how Union defeated Confederates
Jamestown
32. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
tule
acorns
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Samuel de Champlain
33. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Central Pacific Railroad
Mexican American War
Stamp Tax
Mexicans
34. People who took land from the original Californios
Owens River
squatters
Transcontinental Railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
35. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Thirteenth Amendment
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts of 1774
merchant Sam Brannon
36. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Hiram Johnson
Mexicans
Mexican American War
Europeans in the New World: Britain
37. 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
Jose de Galves
Mexican - American War
Rodney Case
England and the colonies: differences
38. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Delaware
Central Valley Project
Three - Fifths Compromise
England and the colonies: differences
39. 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
General Stockton and General Kearney
Hernando Cortes
initiative
Federalist Party
40. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Juan Cabrillo
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
water
Emanciptation Proclomation
41. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Germans
Lewis and Clark
Europeans in the New World
southern anad eastern European
42. Drains the interior of the United States
Whig Party
The Mississippi River
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
43. 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
Anasazi culture
Railroad Act of 1864
Prevailing Westerlies
Death Valley
44. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Thirteenth Amendment
Gentleman's Agreement
Connecticut Commonwealth
45. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
internment camps
General Stockton and General Kearney
Japanese
46. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
The Great Basin
Amendments
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Chinese
47. 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
missions
Articles of Confederation
Depression of 1870
Uncle Tom's Cabin
48. 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)
issue of representation under the Constitution
apparel industry
Father Junipero Serra
Francisco Montejo
49. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Jose Figueroa
Federalist Papers
pueblos
Missouri Compromise of 1820
50. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
railroad
Jacksonian democracy
melting pot
World War II