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. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
Radical Republicans
Jose de Galves
2002
2. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
Amendments
Gentleman's Agreement
Watts Riots
Francisco Montejo
3. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
separation of powers
Samuel de Champlain
Central Valley Project
Amendments
4. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
legislative branch
separation of powers
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
5. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Mexican - American War
Thirteenth Amendment
federalism
6. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Connecticut Commonwealth
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Owens River
7. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Andrew Johnson
The interior
California Alien Land Act
Angel Island
8. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Delaware
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Continental Divide
Johann Sutter
9. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
Europeans in the New World: France
The Great Basin
Amerindians
John C. Fremont
10. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Europeans in the New World
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Articles of Confederation
tule
11. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
Compromise of 1850
Germans
Mono Lake
12. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Ten Percent Plan
Exeter Compact
The Inca Empire
manifest destiny
13. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Commodore Sloat
Death Valley
Samuel de Champlain
acorns
14. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Jacques Cartier
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Jose Figueroa
Mexican - American War
15. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Death Valley
The Great Basin
Pony Express
Russians
16. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
Francisco Montejo
Irish
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
loose construction
17. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
Sugar Act
The Appalachian Mountains
Gentleman's Agreement
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
18. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
tourism
loose construction
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
water
19. Northern California Indian tribes
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Piedmont
England and the colonies: similarities
Hetch Hetchy Dam
20. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
internment camps
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Sugar Act
Constitution
21. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
southern anad eastern European
Mexicans
issue of representation under the Constitution
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
22. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
Articles of Confederation
Irish
England and the colonies: similarities
Progressives
23. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
black codes
Magnuson Act of 1943
Compromise of 1850
missions
24. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Okies
loose construction
Yorktown
Commodore Sloat
25. 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
Whig Party
loose construction
pueblos
The Industrial Era of the United States
26. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Rhode Island
Balboa
Battle of Gettysberg
27. 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)
General Stockton and General Kearney
Bear Flag Revolt
Father Junipero Serra
the Oregon Territory
28. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
The Aztec Empire
merchant Sam Brannon
Jamestown
2002
29. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
The Declaration of Independence
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Federalist Papers
Constitutional Convention
30. Southern California native american tribes
internment camps
Pilgrims
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Townsheld Acts of 1767
31. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Mexican American War
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Johann Sutter
32. 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
French and Indian War
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
reasons of American immigration
Battle of Gettysberg
33. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
1850
Francisco Montejo
Quartering Act
how Union defeated Confederates
34. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
The southeastern Coastal Plain
melting pot
Toltecs
anti - federalists
35. 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
Stamp Tax
John C. Fremont
Radical Republicans
Immigration Act of 1965
36. A major mountain range in California
Sierra Nevadas
Japanese
Prevailing Westerlies
Delaware
37. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
The Continental Divide
Francisco Pizarro
Commodore Sloat
Three - Fifths Compromise
38. 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
the conquistadores
referendum
Salton Sea
The southeastern Coastal Plain
39. 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
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Central Valley Project
The southeastern Coastal Plain
40. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
Europeans in the New World
Germans
Whig Party
41. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Lewis and Clark
secession
missions
apparel industry
42. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Bill of Rights
Okies
Amendments
43. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Maryland
First Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation
Pony Express
44. 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
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Louisiana Purchase
Balboa
rights of states
45. An act signed by President Lincoln to create a railroad that would go all the way across the continent - provided loans to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad so that theycould build the transcontiental railroad
Trenton
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
French and Indian War
Revolutionary War
46. 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
squatters
General Stockton
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Francisco Pizarro
47. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
Gold
the Great Compromise
Mississippian culture
Jacksonian democracy
48. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
French and Indian War
Jose Figueroa
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Proposition 13
49. 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
Battle of Gettysberg
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Bill of Rights
initiative
50. The highest point in California
Mt. Whitney
Modoc War
The Maya Empire
The Gulf Stream