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CSET U.S And California History

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1. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish






2. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure






3. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)






4. 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)






5. One of the first U.S. political parties. It was led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They stood up for more for individual rights and 'strict construction.' They opposed industrialization and didn't think bank was a good idea. They later evolve






6. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849






7. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities






8. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony






9. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death






10. A tradition of free public education was started in the villages of New England - Religious tolerance supplanted an early religious dogmatism first established by the Puritans in Massachusetts - A conscious choice was made to leave the idea of heredi






11. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress






12. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay






13. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire






14. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority






15. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York






16. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies






17. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico






18. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power






19. In the eastern region of the United States






20. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation






21. The year and month that California approves its first constitution






22. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New






23. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws






24. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks






29. 1860 mailing service that carried mail in ten days from Missouri to California - went out of business in 1861 when the first telegraph was completed






30. 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






31. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest






32. 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






33. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States






34. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution






35. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast






36. 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






37. 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






38. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals






39. 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






40. 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






41. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid






42. 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






43. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America






44. MesoAmerican empire who once reigned from equator to Chile and between the Andes Mountain. They practiced terracing and irrigating steep mountainsides. Were defeateed by smallpox epidemic






45. 1500: Cabral - Brazil






46. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population






47. Lincoln's vice president became president






48. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'






49. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government






50. Northern California Indian tribes