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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Pony Express
apparel industry
Land Commission
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
2. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Tea Act of 1773
Sugar Act
The Continental Divide
3. 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
Commodore Sloat
sacred expedition
Hetch Hetchy Dam
4. Drains the interior of the United States
The Appalachian Mountains
pueblos
The Mississippi River
initiative
5. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Chinese
Sebastian Vicaino
Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Francisco Montejo
Quartering Act
Samuel de Champlain
2002
7. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Emanciptation Proclomation
2002
aeorspace industry
Chronological order of the colonies
8. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Declaration of Independence
tourism
Three - Fifths Compromise
Henry Hudson
9. 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
Mayflower Compact
French and Indian War
Compromise of 1850
black codes
10. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
The interior
Election of 1876
Lewis and Clark
Sir Francis Drake
11. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Chinese
federalism
Salton Sea
the conquistadores
12. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Rodney Case
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Depression of 1870
presidios
13. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
The Inca Empire
Hopewell people
Jacksonian democracy
14. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
railroad
rancho system
Johann Sutter
Immigration Act of 1965
15. (Mnemonic: Fun farmers always grow vegetables - specifically beets.) - Fort Sumter - First Battle of Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg - Vicksburg - Sherman's March to the Sea - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Major battles of the Civil War
Second Constitutional Congress
Watts Riots
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
16. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Declaration of Independence
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Dust Bowl
17. 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
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Francisco Montejo
The Great Basin
Bill of Rights
18. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Appomattox Court
The Maya Empire
Okies
Jose Figueroa
19. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
referendum
The Maya Empire
General Stockton and General Kearney
England and the colonies: differences
20. Central California native American tribes
referendum
black codes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Watts Riots
21. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
Juan Cabrillo
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Commodore Sloat
22. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Gold
Georgia
forty - niners
Salton Sea
23. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
2002
November 1849
New Government
black codes
24. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Magnuson Act of 1943
reasons of American immigration
rights of the federal government
25. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Trenton
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Russians
26. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Maryland
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Aztec Empire
1850
27. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
recall
The Appalachian Mountains
tourism
Mississippian culture
28. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Jacques Cartier
29. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
loose construction
free - soil movement
the Great Compromise
Mexican - American War
30. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
1850
Europeans in the New World
Constitutional Convention
Jacksonian democracy
31. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Sugar Act
the Great Compromise
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Father Fermin Lausen
32. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
the conquistadores
secession
Rodney Case
Georgia
33. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Modoc War
rancho system
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
34. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
Radical Republicans
the Oregon Territory
Sebastian Cermeno
Mexican American War
35. 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
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Emanciptation Proclomation
Constitution
missions
36. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Okies
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
presidios
37. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
pueblos
Mt. Whitney
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Major battles of the Civil War
38. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Sierra Nevadas
November 1849
Mono Lake
Hetch Hetchy Dam
39. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Sugar Act
Chronological order of the colonies
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jose Figueroa
40. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Toltecs
recall
referendum
internment camps
41. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
California Alien Land Act
Federalist Papers
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Magnuson Act of 1943
42. Southern California native american tribes
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Georgia
Stamp Tax
43. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Puritans
Three - Fifths Compromise
Mexicans
Francisco Pizarro
44. 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
Whig Party
Declaration of Independence
Jose de Galves
California Alien Land Act
45. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Pony Express
Connecticut Commonwealth
Francisco Montejo
2002
46. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Jacksonian democracy
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
forty - niners
William Penn
47. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Louisiana Purchase
Battle of Gettysberg
free - soil movement
48. 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
Russians
Mexican Independence
Chinese
Union advantage
49. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Workingmen's Party
Townsheld Acts of 1767
entertainment
legislative branch
50. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
rancho system
Mexican Independence
Germans
Great Awakening
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