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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Land Commission
The interior
entertainment
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
2. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Puritans
referendum
General Stockton
aeorspace industry
3. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
the conquistadores
Jose Figueroa
Great Awakening
Louisiana Purchase
4. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Second Constitutional Congress
manifest destiny
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Sebastian Cermeno
5. 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
Sugar Act
recall
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
The Continental Divide
6. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Trenton
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Father Fermin Lausen
Whig Party
7. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Jacksonian democracy
Mexican American War
Sugar Act
anti - federalists
8. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Hiram Johnson
recall
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
9. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
The Maya Empire
presidios
The Great Basin
Louisiana Purchase
10. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Depression of 1870
acorns
Hetch Hetchy Dam
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
11. A major food staple of California native American tribes
acorns
Modoc War
French and Indian War
Second Constitutional Congress
12. During the Reconstruction - a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the former Confederates voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Hetch Hetchy Dam
judicial branch
Ten Percent Plan
13. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
free - soil movement
Francisco Montejo
The Declaration of Independence
Important Battles of the Revolution
14. 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
Father Junipero Serra
The Industrial Era of the United States
forty - niners
Mt. Whitney
15. 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
England and the colonies: similarities
The Aztec Empire
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Election of 1876
16. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
The Inca Empire
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Connecticut Commonwealth
First Continental Congress
17. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Francisco Pizarro
Yorktown
black codes
18. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Anasazi culture
The interior
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
William Penn
19. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
Angel Island
French and Indian War
free - soil movement
tourism
20. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Mississippian culture
black codes
railroad
Rhode Island
21. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
anti - federalists
22. Occurred right after 'shots heard round the world' happened (Lexington and Concord)
Radical Republicans
Second Constitutional Congress
Mexican - American War
Central Valley
23. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Tea Act of 1773
Jamestown
Central Pacific Railroad
Declaration of Independence
24. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
Sugar Act
anti - federalists
Amendments
internment camps
25. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
reasons of American immigration
Connecticut Commonwealth
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Confederacy advanage
26. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
California Alien Land Act
Pilgrims
Jacksonian democracy
Federalist Papers
27. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Central Valley Project
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Jose de Galves
Workingmen's Party
28. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
melting pot
Dust Bowl
Chinese
29. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Sebastian Cermeno
Mexican Independence
the conquistadores
acorns
30. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Silicon Valley
initiative
Mexican Independence
31. 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
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Battle of Gettysberg
Pilgrims
England and the colonies: differences
32. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Delaware
Bill of Rights
Revolutionary War
33. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Exeter Compact
how Union defeated Confederates
Constitutional Convention
Silicon Valley
34. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Yorktown
Gold
Johann Sutter
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
35. 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
Jacksonian democracy
Hernando Cortez
initiative
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
36. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Father Fermin Lausen
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Articles of Confederation
Rodney Case
37. 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
The Inca Empire
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Europeans in the New World: Britain
38. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Central Valley
Pilgrims
Chinese
Mono Lake
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
Hernando Cortes
Europeans in the New World: France
anti - federalists
Germans
40. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
rights of the federal government
Amendments
Jose Figueroa
Appomattox Court
41. Southeatern California native american tribes
Transcontinental Railroad
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Louisiana Purchase
Japanese
42. People who took land from the original Californios
water
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
squatters
William Penn
43. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
rights of the federal government
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Great Basin
Tea Act of 1773
44. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
nullification
Chinese
Second Constitutional Congress
Angel Island
45. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Bill of Rights
Father Junipero Serra
The southeastern Coastal Plain
General Stockton and General Kearney
46. 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
forty - niners
sacred expedition
Mexican American War
First Continental Congress
47. 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
Hernando Cortez
loose construction
William Penn
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
48. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Mono Lake
entertainment
Tea Act of 1773
Henry Hudson
49. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
merchant Sam Brannon
Dust Bowl
California Alien Land Act
The Maya Empire
50. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
The Industrial Era of the United States
Progressives
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Amendments