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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Japanese
The Declaration of Independence
nullification
rights of the federal government
2. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Japanese
The Appalachian Mountains
reasons of American immigration
Panama Canal
3. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Amendments
Angel Island
The Declaration of Independence
General Stockton and General Kearney
4. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
French and Indian War
rights of the federal government
decline of the Mayan civlization
Louisiana Purchase
5. Central California native American tribes
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Mexican - American War
Sugar Act
Whig Party
6. 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
tule
Declaration of Independence
anti - federalists
7. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
federalism
Mexicans
England and the colonies: similarities
the Oregon Territory
8. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
referendum
Juan Cabrillo
Radical Republicans
9. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Salton Sea
rights of the federal government
Central Valley
10. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
missions
Samuel de Champlain
Ten Percent Plan
The Industrial Era of the United States
11. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
Hernando Cortes
Jacksonian democracy
executive branch
Pony Express
12. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
hydraulic mining -
November 1849
Bear Flag Revolt
1850
13. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
melting pot
reasons of American immigration
14. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
Exeter Compact
water
Bill of Rights
Quartering Act
15. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
Connecticut Commonwealth
Three - Fifths Compromise
Francisco Pizarro
Stamp Tax
16. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
sacred expedition
Sebastian Vicaino
Juan Cabrillo
Missouri Compromise of 1820
17. 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
Stamp Tax
Appomattox Court
The Inca Empire
Mayflower Compact
18. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Mexican - American War
Appomattox Court
Toltecs
'strict construction'
19. A major mountain range in California
Chronological order of the colonies
Sierra Nevadas
Mexican American War
Stamp Tax
20. 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
Exeter Compact
missions
Dust Bowl
Bill of Rights
21. Native American group developed in Southwest and were were skilled builders
Central Pacific Railroad
Anasazi culture
The Maya Empire
Confederacy advanage
22. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Pilgrims
California
Okies
23. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
The Aztec Empire
Francisco Montejo
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Georgia
24. 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
Georgia
Emanciptation Proclomation
hydraulic mining -
Articles of Confederation
25. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Whig Party
Mono Lake
Mexicans
Owens River
26. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Andrew Johnson
secession
Mexicans
William Penn
27. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Commodore Sloat
The Industrial Era of the United States
reasons of American immigration
Bear Flag Revolt
28. 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
the conquistadores
England and the colonies: differences
Mexican Independence
Olmec Empire
29. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Silicon Valley
World War II
rights of the federal government
Francisco Montejo
30. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
Democratic Republicans
Sebastian Cermeno
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Okies
31. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Modoc War
legislative branch
Russians
Panama Canal
32. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
acorns
Central Valley
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Central Valley Project
33. 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
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Gentleman's Agreement
Democratic Republicans
Proposition 13
34. 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
The Aztec Empire
Johann Sutter
separation of powers
rancho system
35. The highest point in California
Bill of Rights
Mt. Whitney
presidios
General Stockton
36. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Hernando Cortez
merchant Sam Brannon
federalism
37. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
decline of the Mayan civlization
anti - federalists
Mexican American War
Chinese
38. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
39. 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
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Europeans in the New World: France
Prevailing Westerlies
John C. Fremont
40. Gave southerneers a stronger fugitive slave law and popular sovereignty (territories would have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to adopt slavery on their borders) over newly conquered Mexico areas in exchange for Califor
Compromise of 1850
Union advantage
Chinese
General Stockton
41. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Dust Bowl
acorns
The Gulf Stream
Declaration of Independence
42. 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution - Introduced by Madison - A series of limitations on the power of the U.S. federal government; added to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the sovereignty of the states over their own affairs
rights of the federal government
The Piedmont
Bill of Rights
recall
43. Form the western mountain ranges - The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California - The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley
Jose de Galves
legislative branch
The Declaration of Independence
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
44. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
missions
Puritans
The Appalachian Mountains
Land Commission
45. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Pony Express
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Sir Francis Drake
The interior
46. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
judicial branch
California
Exeter Compact
Amendments
47. 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.
Mayflower Compact
The interior
The Declaration of Independence
Mexicans
48. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Jose de Galves
southern anad eastern European
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
black codes
49. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
railroad
Whig Party
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
initiative
50. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Chinese
Stamp Tax
free - soil movement
tule