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CSET U.S And California History

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1. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states






2. Southern California native american tribes






3. 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






4. 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






5. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city






6. 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






7. The lowest point in California






8. 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






9. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert






10. 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






11. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice






12. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula






13. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories






14. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers

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15. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination






16. 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






17. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States






18. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities






19. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established






20. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana






21. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)






22. 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






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






24. Southeatern California native american tribes






25. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free

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26. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery






27. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii






28. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands






29. 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.






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






31. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government






32. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607






33. 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






34. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves






35. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge






36. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains






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






38. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)






39. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada






40. 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






41. The first declaration of self - government in the New World






42. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress






43. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'






44. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach






45. 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






46. 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






47. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River






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






49. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with






50. 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







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