SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET U.S And California History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
cset
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Puritans
New Government
Sierra Nevadas
forty - niners
2. 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
Irish
Trenton
tourism
initiative
3. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Jacques Cartier
England and the colonies: similarities
separation of powers
4. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Ten Percent Plan
melting pot
Railroad Act of 1864
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
5. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Sir Francis Drake
nullification
Olmec Empire
Puritans
6. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Immigration Act of 1965
Trenton
Georgia
Jacques Cartier
7. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
forty - niners
Mt. Whitney
tourism
Salton Sea
8. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
nullification
Amendments
the Great Compromise
merchant Sam Brannon
9. 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
Hopewell people
anti - federalists
Amendments
Hetch Hetchy Dam
10. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Gold
Yorktown
Sebastian Cermeno
11. 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
Francisco Montejo
Central Valley Project
Bill of Rights
referendum
12. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
Amerindians
Father Fermin Lausen
melting pot
hydraulic mining -
13. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
apparel industry
Democratic Republicans
England and the colonies: differences
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
14. 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
Central Valley Project
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Samuel de Champlain
Puritans
15. 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
Election of 1876
The Aztec Empire
Depression of 1870
16. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
World War II
forty - niners
General Stockton and General Kearney
manifest destiny
17. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
First Continental Congress
Trenton
18. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
forty - niners
Compromise of 1850
Emanciptation Proclomation
Hiram Johnson
19. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Confederacy advanage
Dust Bowl
loose construction
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
20. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Mexican American War
loose construction
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
rancho system
21. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Continental Divide
Salton Sea
Watts Riots
22. Tax that is placed on tea and led to the Boston Tea Party - colonialists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea from aboard British ships into Boston harbor
2002
Sebastian Vicaino
Tea Act of 1773
internment camps
23. 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
Lewis and Clark
Olmec Empire
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Europeans in the New World: Spain
24. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Okies
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Proclamation of 1763
Anasazi culture
25. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
Magnuson Act of 1943
aeorspace industry
Japanese
26. Lincoln's vice president became president
decline of the Mayan civlization
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
the conquistadores
Andrew Johnson
27. Southeatern California native american tribes
internment camps
merchant Sam Brannon
Land Commission
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
28. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Mexican Independence
War of 1812
Gold
melting pot
29. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Mayflower Compact
Yorktown
Mexican American War
The Appalachian Mountains
30. 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)
The Appalachian Mountains
Workingmen's Party
Father Junipero Serra
Appomattox Court
31. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Jamestown
Juan Cabrillo
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Constitution
32. 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.
The Declaration of Independence
legislative branch
internment camps
Delaware
33. 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
rights of states
Election of 1876
free - soil movement
Hernando Cortez
34. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
California Alien Land Act
tourism
Jamestown
Hiram Johnson
35. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
tourism
legislative branch
black codes
Hopewell people
36. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Sebastian Cermeno
Owens River
Johann Sutter
internment camps
37. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Depression of 1870
November 1849
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
apparel industry
38. 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
Owens River
Silicon Valley
Whig Party
Gold
39. 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
Mt. Whitney
General Stockton
Dust Bowl
40. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
tourism
The Aztec Empire
First Continental Congress
Mt. Whitney
41. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Amerindians
Jacksonian democracy
The Continental Divide
Samuel de Champlain
42. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
The Aztec Empire
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Balboa
Hernando Cortes
43. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Pilgrims
John C. Fremont
issue of representation under the Constitution
44. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Hernando Cortez
Bill of Rights
Silicon Valley
manifest destiny
45. War foguht between Britain and American colonialists which led to America's independence. Americans enlist friendship of France to revolutionary cause - Spain and Netherlands soon follow
free - soil movement
Amendments
squatters
Revolutionary War
46. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
referendum
French and Indian War
Central Pacific Railroad
47. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Pony Express
reasons of American immigration
Rhode Island
Constitution
48. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Georgia
missions
Central Pacific Railroad
Hetch Hetchy Dam
49. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
recall
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Jose Figueroa
squatters
50. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Tea Act of 1773
Bear Flag Revolt
Progressives
French and Indian War