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CSET U.S And California History
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1. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Hiram Johnson
judicial branch
Hernando Cortes
Bill of Rights
2. 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
Whig Party
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Proclamation of 1763
Tea Act of 1773
3. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sugar Act
England and the colonies: differences
melting pot
Salton Sea
4. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Hopewell people
Pueblo Indians
Compromise of 1850
pueblos
5. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
the conquistadores
Mexican Independence
Delaware
southern anad eastern European
6. 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.
pueblos
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
The Declaration of Independence
'strict construction'
7. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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8. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Chinese
Hopewell people
Transcontinental Railroad
federalism
9. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
internment camps
Amerindians
Europeans in the New World
Samuel de Champlain
10. 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
the Oregon Territory
Immigration Act of 1965
Father Junipero Serra
William Penn
11. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Mexicans
Hernando Cortez
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Jose de Galves
12. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
free - soil movement
sacred expedition
nullification
Emanciptation Proclomation
13. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
entertainment
Pilgrims
the Oregon Territory
14. 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
Jamestown
Prevailing Westerlies
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
15. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Sebastian Vicaino
referendum
Sierra Nevadas
Pueblo Indians
16. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
New Government
missions
Mexican - American War
Prevailing Westerlies
17. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Sebastian Vicaino
Pilgrims
Quartering Act
World War II
18. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
tule
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Irish
Prevailing Westerlies
19. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
tule
Exeter Compact
Watts Riots
Olmec Empire
20. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Sugar Act
Major battles of the Civil War
Proposition 13
21. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Rhode Island
judicial branch
Francisco Montejo
22. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Georgia
Constitutional Convention
free - soil movement
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
23. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Amerindians
judicial branch
24. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Great Awakening
California
World War II
railroad
25. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
entertainment
Emanciptation Proclomation
Workingmen's Party
Revolutionary War
26. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
internment camps
how Union defeated Confederates
Modoc War
Appomattox Court
27. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Europeans in the New World
Proposition 13
Mexicans
Panama Canal
28. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Father Junipero Serra
Commodore Sloat
The Gulf Stream
Amerindians
29. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
missions
Rhode Island
War of 1812
Salton Sea
30. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Stamp Tax
Jose de Galves
Battle of Gettysberg
anti - federalists
31. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Watts Riots
Mexican Independence
apparel industry
32. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Sierra Nevadas
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World: France
33. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Amendments
Election of 1876
the Great Compromise
Europeans in the New World: Spain
34. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
World War II
railroad
The Piedmont
The Mississippi River
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
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Japanese
legislative branch
36. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
French and Indian War
Delaware
Trenton
Europeans in the New World: France
37. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Second Constitutional Congress
Mt. Whitney
Bill of Rights
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
38. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
William Penn
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
internment camps
Thirteenth Amendment
39. 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
The Maya Empire
Whig Party
Election of 1876
Hernando Cortez
40. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
manifest destiny
rights of the federal government
Chronological order of the colonies
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
41. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Proposition 13
Yorktown
Germans
Jose Figueroa
42. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Jacksonian democracy
initiative
Panama Canal
Magnuson Act of 1943
43. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
apparel industry
separation of powers
Bear Flag Revolt
Amendments
44. 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
tourism
Uncle Tom's Cabin
hydraulic mining -
missions
45. 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
Germans
'strict construction'
Samuel de Champlain
Constitution
46. 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
General Stockton and General Kearney
Ten Percent Plan
Anasazi culture
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
47. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
rights of states
Delaware
decline of the Mayan civlization
48. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Anasazi culture
Proposition 13
Olmec Empire
Articles of Confederation
49. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
Europeans in the New World
Pony Express
French and Indian War
melting pot
50. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
reasons of American immigration
Workingmen's Party