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CSET U.S And California History
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1. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Delaware
Proposition 13
Europeans in the New World
'strict construction'
2. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Railroad Act of 1864
William Penn
Second Constitutional Congress
Radical Republicans
3. 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
sacred expedition
Appomattox Court
Prevailing Westerlies
apparel industry
4. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Toltecs
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Olmec Empire
Death Valley
5. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Silicon Valley
John C. Fremont
Appomattox Court
manifest destiny
6. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Balboa
Transcontinental Railroad
Confederacy advanage
rancho system
7. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
the conquistadores
Depression of 1870
Hernando Cortes
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
8. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Bill of Rights
California Alien Land Act
Andrew Johnson
World War II
9. 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
Gentleman's Agreement
Pilgrims
Important Battles of the Revolution
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
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
Depression of 1870
Panama Canal
Immigration Act of 1965
Declaration of Independence
11. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
internment camps
Democratic Republicans
Germans
12. 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
Balboa
Railroad Act of 1864
federalism
Quartering Act
13. Central California native American tribes
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Proposition 13
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
14. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
merchant Sam Brannon
Europeans in the New World
tule
New Government
15. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
forty - niners
Anasazi culture
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
melting pot
16. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Central Valley
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Battle of Gettysberg
17. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
internment camps
southern anad eastern European
melting pot
The Chinese Exclusion Act
18. 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
Democratic Republicans
Mono Lake
the conquistadores
Jacksonian democracy
19. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
apparel industry
Magnuson Act of 1943
pueblos
California
20. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Jacksonian democracy
Father Fermin Lausen
The Continental Divide
manifest destiny
21. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Hernando Cortes
Pueblo Indians
World War II
Mississippian culture
22. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Proposition 13
Sugar Act
England and the colonies: differences
Articles of Confederation
23. Acquittal of police officers in this man's case in 1992 led to a major riot that called for economic and political opportunity for minorities. federal guilty verdict reduces the racial tension
the Oregon Territory
Rodney Case
Samuel de Champlain
hydraulic mining -
24. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Radical Republicans
Sierra Nevadas
Panama Canal
Mexican - American War
25. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
Central Valley
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mississippian culture
26. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
melting pot
Commodore Sloat
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
hydraulic mining -
27. 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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28. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Transcontinental Railroad
Election of 1876
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Chinese
29. 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
Panama Canal
Rodney Case
manifest destiny
England and the colonies: similarities
30. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Union advantage
Anasazi culture
Immigration Act of 1965
black codes
31. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
Sir Francis Drake
Compromise of 1850
Watts Riots
32. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
The Maya Empire
Commodore Sloat
black codes
33. 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
The Maya Empire
Georgia
Central Valley
recall
34. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Tea Act of 1773
Revolutionary War
separation of powers
35. The highest point in California
John C. Fremont
Central Pacific Railroad
Mt. Whitney
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
36. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
Lewis and Clark
The Industrial Era of the United States
Declaration of Independence
Okies
37. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
issue of representation under the Constitution
tule
Chinese
38. 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
Andrew Johnson
Constitution
Watts Riots
Exeter Compact
39. 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
Revolutionary War
Death Valley
squatters
anti - federalists
40. 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
Articles of Confederation
Angel Island
Proposition 13
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
41. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Jose de Galves
Owens River
the conquistadores
The interior
42. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
issue of representation under the Constitution
Jose Figueroa
Louisiana Purchase
legislative branch
43. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Trenton
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
aeorspace industry
William Penn
44. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Mt. Whitney
Pueblo Indians
anti - federalists
Maryland
45. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Central Pacific Railroad
Sugar Act
Important Battles of the Revolution
rights of the federal government
46. 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
Tea Act of 1773
Johann Sutter
Central Pacific Railroad
The Mississippi River
47. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Pilgrims
Johann Sutter
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
anti - federalists
48. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
England and the colonies: similarities
Chinese
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
49. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Olmec Empire
hydraulic mining -
November 1849
Sebastian Vicaino
50. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
recall
Angel Island
The Industrial Era of the United States
The southeastern Coastal Plain