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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. The lowest point in California
Germans
Hernando Cortez
Death Valley
Jacques Cartier
2. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Toltecs
The Aztec Empire
how Union defeated Confederates
Bill of Rights
3. The central agricultural area of California
Central Valley
French and Indian War
Confederacy advanage
the Oregon Territory
4. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
Amerindians
World War II
Jacksonian democracy
reasons of American immigration
5. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
William Penn
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Pilgrims
6. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
recall
Hernando Cortez
The Great Basin
Stamp Tax
7. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Sebastian Cermeno
Articles of Confederation
Federalist Party
8. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Transcontinental Railroad
Toltecs
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
southern anad eastern European
9. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Bear Flag Revolt
Election of 1876
Chinese
initiative
10. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
The Mississippi River
Central Pacific Railroad
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
11. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Mexican - American War
Jose Figueroa
Europeans in the New World: Spain
squatters
12. Extends along the coast from New Jersey to Texas and is generally low land
Quartering Act
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Europeans in the New World
13. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Constitutional Convention
issue of representation under the Constitution
Battle of Gettysberg
14. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
Bill of Rights
nullification
Okies
Francisco Montejo
15. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Ten Percent Plan
The Declaration of Independence
Central Valley Project
16. 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
Mexican American War
Rodney Case
Sierra Nevadas
Magnuson Act of 1943
17. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
Hetch Hetchy Dam
England and the colonies: similarities
Hiram Johnson
18. 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
Rodney Case
Progressives
John C. Fremont
Silicon Valley
19. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Juan Cabrillo
Russians
Henry Hudson
Balboa
20. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
Land Commission
Mexican American War
Pueblo Indians
Europeans in the New World: Spain
21. 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
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
England and the colonies: similarities
Pony Express
Great Awakening
22. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Important Battles of the Revolution
Gold
'strict construction'
the Great Compromise
23. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
Father Junipero Serra
General Stockton and General Kearney
Bear Flag Revolt
24. 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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25. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
acorns
rights of states
Bear Flag Revolt
loose construction
26. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
reasons of American immigration
The Appalachian Mountains
Maryland
Bear Flag Revolt
27. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Hiram Johnson
Puritans
Dust Bowl
Jacques Cartier
28. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Transcontinental Railroad
aeorspace industry
Watts Riots
pueblos
29. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Compromise of 1850
Declaration of Independence
Progressives
Rodney Case
30. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Watts Riots
Gold
2002
Okies
31. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
forty - niners
Magnuson Act of 1943
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
32. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
anti - federalists
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
William Penn
General Stockton and General Kearney
33. The two major deserts in California
Mayflower Compact
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Sierra Nevadas
southern anad eastern European
34. Immigrant group started migrating in the 1840s due to famine in their community. potato blight had decimated the potato harvest. They moved westward to the California Gold Rush of 1849
Francisco Montejo
Irish
Stamp Tax
New Government
35. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
California
referendum
Irish
36. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
Bill of Rights
Maryland
New Government
Sebastian Vicaino
37. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Bear Flag Revolt
Quartering Act
Henry Hudson
Georgia
38. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Union advantage
Trenton
War of 1812
Hernando Cortez
39. 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
Constitution
Election of 1876
The Appalachian Mountains
Henry Hudson
40. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Chronological order of the colonies
Death Valley
Three - Fifths Compromise
Russians
41. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
California Alien Land Act
pueblos
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mono Lake
42. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
federalism
pueblos
Owens River
The southeastern Coastal Plain
43. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Battle of Gettysberg
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Railroad Act of 1864
Germans
44. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Battle of Gettysberg
Magnuson Act of 1943
Gentleman's Agreement
Louisiana Purchase
45. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Maryland
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Panama Canal
46. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Tea Act of 1773
Jose de Galves
Delaware
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
47. The highest point in California
Europeans in the New World: France
Mt. Whitney
secession
The Aztec Empire
48. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
California
Rhode Island
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
49. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
anti - federalists
Rodney Case
southern anad eastern European
Samuel de Champlain
50. 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
Sir Francis Drake
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Convention
secession