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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
Balboa
The interior
Mexican - American War
Mexicans
2. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
tule
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
loose construction
Mississippian culture
3. 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
Appomattox Court
England and the colonies: differences
Articles of Confederation
secession
4. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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5. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
The Maya Empire
Central Pacific Railroad
Sierra Nevadas
Europeans in the New World: Spain
6. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Francisco Montejo
Central Pacific Railroad
nullification
Battle of Gettysberg
7. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Jose de Galves
England and the colonies: differences
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
the conquistadores
8. 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
referendum
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Confederacy advanage
Magnuson Act of 1943
9. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Cermeno
Great Awakening
Quartering Act
Sebastian Vicaino
10. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Bill of Rights
anti - federalists
Puritans
Dust Bowl
11. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Tea Act of 1773
First Continental Congress
Gold
Watts Riots
12. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Delaware
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Louisiana Purchase
the Great Compromise
13. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
War of 1812
the Great Compromise
New Government
Election of 1876
14. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
General Stockton
Father Junipero Serra
reasons of American immigration
internment camps
15. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
New Government
Henry Hudson
Maryland
16. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
legislative branch
World War II
Central Pacific Railroad
War of 1812
17. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Balboa
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Union advantage
18. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Death Valley
Quartering Act
Georgia
Okies
19. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mono Lake
20. 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
entertainment
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Inca Empire
21. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
Pony Express
pueblos
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
rights of states
22. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Revolutionary War
The Inca Empire
Samuel de Champlain
Commodore Sloat
23. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
referendum
Federalist Papers
decline of the Mayan civlization
Townsheld Acts of 1767
24. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Bill of Rights
Mexican Independence
Salton Sea
free - soil movement
25. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Major battles of the Civil War
railroad
The Gulf Stream
pueblos
26. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Germans
the Oregon Territory
Railroad Act of 1864
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
27. A mechanism of California's constitutuion to end an elected official's tenure in office before itw as scheduled for completition. It is initiated by a citizen and requires the signatures of a percentage of the number voting in the last gubernatorial
internment camps
recall
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Revolutionary War
28. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Confederacy advanage
Connecticut Commonwealth
Gentleman's Agreement
29. 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
Hernando Cortez
the Great Compromise
missions
Amendments
30. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
apparel industry
legislative branch
entertainment
Appomattox Court
31. The two major deserts in California
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
water
Balboa
Stamp Tax
32. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Olmec Empire
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Juan Cabrillo
black codes
33. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
The Piedmont
acorns
First Continental Congress
Exeter Compact
34. 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
Pueblo Indians
1850
Thirteenth Amendment
Land Commission
35. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
England and the colonies: similarities
Rhode Island
Balboa
Chinese
36. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
Central Valley
Olmec Empire
The Declaration of Independence
37. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
War of 1812
Magnuson Act of 1943
black codes
The Aztec Empire
38. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
World War II
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
39. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
presidios
Emanciptation Proclomation
The Great Basin
Amendments
40. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Proposition 13
Depression of 1870
Lewis and Clark
decline of the Mayan civlization
41. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
issue of representation under the Constitution
legislative branch
Mayflower Compact
presidios
42. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Gentleman's Agreement
California Alien Land Act
Father Fermin Lausen
manifest destiny
43. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
Second Constitutional Congress
Mt. Whitney
rights of states
44. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Revolutionary War
Sugar Act
Europeans in the New World: France
45. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
2002
federalism
William Penn
Land Commission
46. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Hiram Johnson
Francisco Pizarro
Progressives
the Great Compromise
47. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
November 1849
California Alien Land Act
secession
Commodore Sloat
48. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Irish
Balboa
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
49. 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)
Depression of 1870
decline of the Mayan civlization
The Maya Empire
Father Junipero Serra
50. 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
John C. Fremont
initiative
Hetch Hetchy Dam
manifest destiny