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CSET U.S And California History
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1. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Salton Sea
Mexicans
Yorktown
acorns
2. Spanish conquistador who captured the last Mayan city
black codes
railroad
'strict construction'
Francisco Montejo
3. Northern California Indian tribes
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
John C. Fremont
water
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
4. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Intolerable Acts of 1774
railroad
Townsheld Acts of 1767
5. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Francisco Pizarro
Mexican American War
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
manifest destiny
6. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quartering Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Important Battles of the Revolution
7. 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
Irish
squatters
Sebastian Vicaino
Hernando Cortes
8. Conduct elections - ratify amendments to constitution - issue licenses - regulate intrastate (within state) to business - establish local governments - take measures for public health and safety - any other powers that the Constitution does not reser
rights of states
Olmec Empire
Puritans
missions
9. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
entertainment
Transcontinental Railroad
Three - Fifths Compromise
Japanese
10. 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
The Declaration of Independence
free - soil movement
Puritans
missions
11. French explorer who explored Canada to find the Northwest Passage - river routes that would take explorers through North America
Jacques Cartier
railroad
squatters
apparel industry
12. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
Mexicans
entertainment
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Hernando Cortez
13. 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
Father Junipero Serra
acorns
Bear Flag Revolt
The Industrial Era of the United States
14. Feature of California's constitutuion that alllows a statute or amendment that has passed the stae legislature which has then placed the proposed law on the ballot for approval by the electorate
acorns
Gentleman's Agreement
the conquistadores
referendum
15. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
First Continental Congress
Mexican - American War
16. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Ten Percent Plan
pueblos
Rhode Island
November 1849
17. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Panama Canal
California
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Chinese
18. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Proposition 13
Federalist Party
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Hiram Johnson
19. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Jose Figueroa
Rhode Island
The Mississippi River
General Stockton
20. 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
the conquistadores
Whig Party
First Continental Congress
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
21. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
General Stockton
merchant Sam Brannon
sacred expedition
22. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Sir Francis Drake
rights of the federal government
Juan Cabrillo
The Gulf Stream
23. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
railroad
Chinese
free - soil movement
Townsheld Acts of 1767
24. State that was a colony established for Catholics so they could escape religious persecution
Samuel de Champlain
tourism
Maryland
Juan Cabrillo
25. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Trenton
Juan Cabrillo
Declaration of Independence
Election of 1876
26. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Important Battles of the Revolution
acorns
Europeans in the New World: Britain
water
27. 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
Major battles of the Civil War
Jamestown
how Union defeated Confederates
Prevailing Westerlies
28. Union created blockade of Southern ports and Confederate cotton rotted on the docks
Okies
Henry Hudson
acorns
how Union defeated Confederates
29. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
missions
Articles of Confederation
Central Pacific Railroad
water
30. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Owens River
manifest destiny
Anasazi culture
Confederacy advanage
31. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
the Great Compromise
England and the colonies: differences
'strict construction'
Panama Canal
32. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
The Industrial Era of the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Jose de Galves
sacred expedition
33. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Amendments
Compromise of 1850
French and Indian War
First Continental Congress
34. Group of immigrants that first came to live in America. They either came from the northern route from Asia through a land bridge crossing the Bering Strait or through South american shores on boats
Amerindians
California
Important Battles of the Revolution
Europeans in the New World: France
35. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
pueblos
French and Indian War
entertainment
California Alien Land Act
36. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Johann Sutter
separation of powers
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Emanciptation Proclomation
37. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Europeans in the New World
General Stockton and General Kearney
sacred expedition
38. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
Jose de Galves
Federalist Papers
melting pot
Constitutional Convention
39. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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40. Twice the population - strong navy - banking system and factories - Union industries were producing ammunition and goods - driven black soldiers fighting for the freedom of their families
Union advantage
reasons of American immigration
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Mississippian culture
41. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
separation of powers
Father Fermin Lausen
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Sebastian Vicaino
42. Acquired from Great Britain in 1846
2002
Commodore Sloat
the Oregon Territory
Mt. Whitney
43. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
French and Indian War
November 1849
Japanese
Pony Express
44. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Europeans in the New World
French and Indian War
Andrew Johnson
45. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Democratic Republicans
Mt. Whitney
Amendments
46. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
executive branch
Yorktown
rancho system
California Alien Land Act
47. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
The Mississippi River
Sierra Nevadas
Union advantage
48. Made in 1803 by President Thoomas Jefferson and led to the acquisition of the territory west of the existing United States
Maryland
Gold
Louisiana Purchase
Japanese
49. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
1850
Proposition 13
Gold
melting pot
50. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
judicial branch
California
The Industrial Era of the United States
Salton Sea