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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
Radical Republicans
The Industrial Era of the United States
Mexicans
Amerindians
2. 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.
The Declaration of Independence
England and the colonies: similarities
Constitutional Convention
Europeans in the New World
3. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Confederacy advanage
Mississippian culture
Amendments
Olmec Empire
4. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
rights of states
entertainment
Europeans in the New World
Three - Fifths Compromise
5. Central California native American tribes
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Chronological order of the colonies
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
6. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Magnuson Act of 1943
Henry Hudson
Yorktown
sacred expedition
7. The highest point in California
Land Commission
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Emanciptation Proclomation
Mt. Whitney
8. 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
Silicon Valley
The Appalachian Mountains
'strict construction'
Tea Act of 1773
9. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
The Inca Empire
Yorktown
aeorspace industry
forty - niners
10. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
New Government
Sugar Act
Land Commission
Juan Cabrillo
11. 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
Central Valley Project
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
free - soil movement
Johann Sutter
12. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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13. Launched the Revolutionary War - British general ordered destruction of citizens growing number of guns and ammunition - colonialists defended their supplies
Radical Republicans
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Confederacy advanage
Chronological order of the colonies
14. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
legislative branch
Johann Sutter
Land Commission
French and Indian War
15. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Major battles of the Civil War
Second Constitutional Congress
Thirteenth Amendment
Stamp Tax
16. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
Mississippian culture
free - soil movement
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
17. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
England and the colonies: differences
Russians
Townsheld Acts of 1767
free - soil movement
18. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Proclamation of 1763
England and the colonies: similarities
Maryland
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
19. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Hiram Johnson
nullification
The Continental Divide
Exeter Compact
20. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
California Alien Land Act
squatters
Chinese
21. 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
Yorktown
Henry Hudson
Gentleman's Agreement
22. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
French and Indian War
Modoc War
The Industrial Era of the United States
23. Established so that Californios could get their land back - rancheros who had the time and money to prusue their claims got to keep their land
Europeans in the New World
Land Commission
Death Valley
Radical Republicans
24. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
entertainment
Democratic Republicans
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Sierra Nevadas
25. War between the French and British that ended with the defeat of French and Indian allies. It ordered French to be completely removed from North America and Spain relinquished parts of Florida in exchange for New Orleans and lands west of Mississippi
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
French and Indian War
Mayflower Compact
pueblos
26. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
The Inca Empire
Transcontinental Railroad
Sebastian Cermeno
squatters
27. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Magnuson Act of 1943
Hiram Johnson
Radical Republicans
federalism
28. In the eastern region of the United States
The Declaration of Independence
Depression of 1870
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Henry Hudson
29. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Stamp Tax
Henry Hudson
1850
Federalist Party
30. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
Owens River
reasons of American immigration
internment camps
Commodore Sloat
31. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Tea Act of 1773
Magnuson Act of 1943
General Stockton
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
32. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
2002
Great Awakening
Watts Riots
Francisco Montejo
33. 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
November 1849
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Tea Act of 1773
Okies
34. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
Depression of 1870
Europeans in the New World
Appomattox Court
French and Indian War
35. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
presidios
tourism
French and Indian War
hydraulic mining -
36. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
how Union defeated Confederates
Silicon Valley
squatters
Federalist Papers
37. 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
rights of the federal government
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
England and the colonies: similarities
Toltecs
38. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Compromise of 1850
Puritans
Panama Canal
New Government
39. Migrants who came to California during the Dust Bowl and followed crops from farm to farm
how Union defeated Confederates
Ten Percent Plan
Okies
Amerindians
40. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Revolutionary War
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Magnuson Act of 1943
apparel industry
41. 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
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Revolutionary War
Louisiana Purchase
42. Spanish conquerers of Central nand South America
Bear Flag Revolt
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Anasazi culture
the conquistadores
43. 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
apparel industry
Mt. Whitney
Pony Express
Central Valley Project
44. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
The Gulf Stream
Trenton
Commodore Sloat
Louisiana Purchase
45. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Louisiana Purchase
Important Battles of the Revolution
Juan Cabrillo
Delaware
46. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Rhode Island
Andrew Johnson
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Federalist Party
47. Period in 1930s when a severe drought hit hte midwest and forced 350000 people to leave theier farms and lsot jobsand come to California
Andrew Johnson
rancho system
Dust Bowl
November 1849
48. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Watts Riots
Sugar Act
Russians
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
49. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Progressives
Francisco Montejo
Proposition 13
Europeans in the New World: Spain
50. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Chronological order of the colonies
Ten Percent Plan
Dust Bowl