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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Important Battles of the Revolution
2. 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
Mexican American War
reasons of American immigration
forty - niners
Battle of Gettysberg
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
Chinese
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Articles of Confederation
Andrew Johnson
4. Drains the interior of the United States
The Mississippi River
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Workingmen's Party
5. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
The Mississippi River
rights of the federal government
Jacques Cartier
Constitutional Convention
6. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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7. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
melting pot
War of 1812
Russians
The Chinese Exclusion Act
8. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Central Pacific Railroad
World War II
Rhode Island
2002
9. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Sir Francis Drake
Union advantage
10. People who took land from the original Californios
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
internment camps
squatters
John C. Fremont
11. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Samuel de Champlain
General Stockton and General Kearney
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Proclamation of 1763
12. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Radical Republicans
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Railroad Act of 1864
Great Awakening
13. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
England and the colonies: similarities
apparel industry
executive branch
manifest destiny
14. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
executive branch
Japanese
Louisiana Purchase
Mexicans
15. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
John C. Fremont
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
2002
how Union defeated Confederates
16. Led by Southern Carolina and the election of abolitionist ally Abraham Lincoln in 1880 - the slave states decided that they had the right to leave the Union if they wanted to in 1880
railroad
Japanese
secession
Dust Bowl
17. 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
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
recall
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
18. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Sebastian Cermeno
federalism
Modoc War
Bear Flag Revolt
19. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
decline of the Mayan civlization
legislative branch
Chronological order of the colonies
20. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
The Aztec Empire
Owens River
Pilgrims
21. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Johann Sutter
Anasazi culture
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Henry Hudson
22. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
'strict construction'
Proposition 13
Juan Cabrillo
Okies
23. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
The Aztec Empire
Balboa
24. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Land Commission
sacred expedition
Proclamation of 1763
25. 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.
Jose de Galves
the Oregon Territory
Samuel de Champlain
The Declaration of Independence
26. 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
Central Valley Project
Hiram Johnson
Immigration Act of 1965
Louisiana Purchase
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)
Declaration of Independence
Father Junipero Serra
recall
how Union defeated Confederates
28. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Mexican - American War
Commodore Sloat
Mississippian culture
water
29. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Chronological order of the colonies
judicial branch
railroad
Trenton
30. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
The Great Basin
Great Awakening
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Sugar Act
31. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
The Great Basin
Transcontinental Railroad
Election of 1876
California Alien Land Act
32. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Sir Francis Drake
anti - federalists
Jose Figueroa
Samuel de Champlain
33. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
Appomattox Court
Confederacy advanage
The Piedmont
34. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Francisco Pizarro
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Johann Sutter
Progressives
35. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Second Constitutional Congress
The Inca Empire
Constitutional Convention
Hetch Hetchy Dam
36. Southeatern California native american tribes
The Inca Empire
Bill of Rights
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Irish
37. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Election of 1876
Central Pacific Railroad
Bear Flag Revolt
Balboa
38. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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39. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Mt. Whitney
The interior
the conquistadores
General Stockton and General Kearney
40. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Dust Bowl
Pilgrims
Mexican American War
entertainment
41. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
Silicon Valley
Tea Act of 1773
War of 1812
Revolutionary War
42. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
water
The Declaration of Independence
Georgia
Delaware
43. 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
hydraulic mining -
Russians
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
44. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
the Great Compromise
Stamp Tax
Jamestown
Mexicans
45. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Irish
federalism
railroad
First Continental Congress
46. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
Samuel de Champlain
California Alien Land Act
free - soil movement
47. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Panama Canal
Rhode Island
Constitution
reasons of American immigration
48. 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
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Johann Sutter
Trenton
Russians
49. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Stamp Tax
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Commodore Sloat
judicial branch
50. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
New Government
Land Commission
The Industrial Era of the United States
Battle of Gettysberg