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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
separation of powers
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Magnuson Act of 1943
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
2. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Balboa
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Silicon Valley
3. 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
Federalist Party
Stamp Tax
Hetch Hetchy Dam
4. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Father Fermin Lausen
Chinese
Jacques Cartier
Mexican American War
5. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Puritans
Major battles of the Civil War
The Maya Empire
manifest destiny
6. 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
Connecticut Commonwealth
referendum
Irish
Okies
7. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
reasons of American immigration
Central Valley Project
The Continental Divide
Rodney Case
8. 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
Magnuson Act of 1943
forty - niners
Sebastian Vicaino
9. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
Bill of Rights
hydraulic mining -
Jacksonian democracy
10. 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
sacred expedition
Election of 1876
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Bear Flag Revolt
11. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Important Battles of the Revolution
internment camps
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Gold
12. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Amendments
Japanese
Salton Sea
Rhode Island
13. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
General Stockton
Land Commission
merchant Sam Brannon
apparel industry
14. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Delaware
Whig Party
apparel industry
federalism
15. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Europeans in the New World: France
Hernando Cortes
The Aztec Empire
16. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Commodore Sloat
Compromise of 1850
Sir Francis Drake
executive branch
17. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
Federalist Party
The interior
Whig Party
Second Constitutional Congress
18. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Georgia
Commodore Sloat
Henry Hudson
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
19. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Mayflower Compact
tule
Jacques Cartier
Sir Francis Drake
20. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
First Continental Congress
Pilgrims
tule
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
21. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Balboa
Mexican Independence
Workingmen's Party
22. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Union advantage
Jacksonian democracy
separation of powers
Federalist Papers
23. Northern California Indian tribes
Immigration Act of 1965
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Chronological order of the colonies
24. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
The Continental Divide
Salton Sea
secession
the Oregon Territory
25. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Exeter Compact
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
forty - niners
Irish
26. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Henry Hudson
Chinese
Yorktown
Delaware
27. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
secession
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Bear Flag Revolt
Missouri Compromise of 1820
28. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
French and Indian War
Mexicans
presidios
Modoc War
29. 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
melting pot
the Oregon Territory
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Jamestown
30. 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
Angel Island
The Aztec Empire
rights of the federal government
Union advantage
31. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Great Awakening
Federalist Papers
World War II
tule
32. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Depression of 1870
Germans
33. The lowest point in California
Mono Lake
referendum
Death Valley
Great Awakening
34. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Hopewell people
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Confederacy advanage
35. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sebastian Vicaino
Sugar Act
anti - federalists
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
36. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Sierra Nevadas
World War II
Francisco Pizarro
Proclamation of 1763
37. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Sierra Nevadas
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Rodney Case
38. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
executive branch
General Stockton and General Kearney
Emanciptation Proclomation
Anasazi culture
39. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Toltecs
Francisco Pizarro
Uncle Tom's Cabin
water
40. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Bill of Rights
Appomattox Court
Democratic Republicans
separation of powers
41. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
Maryland
Jose Figueroa
Exeter Compact
42. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
Jose Figueroa
Constitutional Convention
Juan Cabrillo
43. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
Mono Lake
Hetch Hetchy Dam
separation of powers
44. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
legislative branch
The Declaration of Independence
Progressives
Irish
45. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
tule
Mexican Independence
Revolutionary War
Three - Fifths Compromise
46. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Angel Island
secession
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Exeter Compact
47. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
separation of powers
internment camps
Emanciptation Proclomation
Bear Flag Revolt
48. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
separation of powers
Declaration of Independence
The Mississippi River
49. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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50. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mexican Independence
Depression of 1870
Battle of Gettysberg
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