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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States
Bear Flag Revolt
Germans
Thirteenth Amendment
Rodney Case
2. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
First Continental Congress
England and the colonies: similarities
Balboa
Proposition 13
3. publicized the gold discovery and bought every shovel - pick axe and pan in the region and made much money
merchant Sam Brannon
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Railroad Act of 1864
Panama Canal
4. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Battle of Gettysberg
melting pot
5. 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
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Missouri Compromise of 1820
tourism
6. 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
Europeans in the New World: France
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Father Junipero Serra
7. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
Bear Flag Revolt
1850
Appomattox Court
2002
8. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Sir Francis Drake
Federalist Party
Ten Percent Plan
French and Indian War
9. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
anti - federalists
Delaware
War of 1812
rancho system
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
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Important Battles of the Revolution
Revolutionary War
11. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
Articles of Confederation
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Owens River
12. Lincoln's vice president became president
The Maya Empire
Andrew Johnson
anti - federalists
Amerindians
13. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
General Stockton
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Japanese
14. 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
squatters
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
manifest destiny
Central Valley
15. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
Father Junipero Serra
Samuel de Champlain
Louisiana Purchase
Union advantage
16. 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
Ten Percent Plan
Great Awakening
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Hetch Hetchy Dam
17. 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
Death Valley
the Oregon Territory
Compromise of 1850
Progressives
18. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
French and Indian War
Okies
Declaration of Independence
aeorspace industry
19. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
November 1849
Europeans in the New World: France
Jamestown
secession
20. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
Tea Act of 1773
black codes
Hiram Johnson
Depression of 1870
21. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
Angel Island
Toltecs
Jamestown
rights of the federal government
22. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Russians
The Inca Empire
judicial branch
California
23. The two major deserts in California
Central Pacific Railroad
Quartering Act
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Three - Fifths Compromise
24. Issued by King of england to forbid colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains - led the british to raise taxes so they could support hundreds of troops to be stationed in the colonies - along with a raise of taxes
California
Sebastian Cermeno
Proclamation of 1763
nullification
25. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Election of 1876
recall
hydraulic mining -
Chinese
26. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
separation of powers
Okies
27. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Chronological order of the colonies
Emanciptation Proclomation
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Japanese
28. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Radical Republicans
Amendments
Jacques Cartier
29. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Amerindians
judicial branch
Emanciptation Proclomation
30. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Europeans in the New World: France
Central Pacific Railroad
internment camps
Mono Lake
31. Another religious group that arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1629. They had a covenant with God to build 'a city on a hill'
Francisco Montejo
Puritans
Federalist Party
Russians
32. 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
presidios
Great Awakening
missions
melting pot
33. Southern California native american tribes
Important Battles of the Revolution
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Confederacy advanage
34. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Depression of 1870
Three - Fifths Compromise
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
War of 1812
35. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Watts Riots
Rodney Case
The interior
Pueblo Indians
36. 1500: Cabral - Brazil
Okies
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Father Fermin Lausen
37. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Central Valley Project
November 1849
Appomattox Court
California
38. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Articles of Confederation
The Continental Divide
Sir Francis Drake
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
39. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Panama Canal
William Penn
Salton Sea
The interior
40. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Bear Flag Revolt
Federalist Papers
Angel Island
Pilgrims
41. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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42. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Railroad Act of 1864
Connecticut Commonwealth
Panama Canal
Jose Figueroa
43. people from the eastern United States who came to California to saerch for gold. Were not so lucky about finding gold because the route to California was difficult and dangerous whether by land or by sea
rancho system
forty - niners
Hernando Cortez
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
44. 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
Olmec Empire
The Inca Empire
Japanese
Europeans in the New World: Spain
45. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
manifest destiny
Japanese
Proclamation of 1763
legislative branch
46. 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
Federalist Papers
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
The Declaration of Independence
Democratic Republicans
47. 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
2002
Whig Party
reasons of American immigration
The Continental Divide
48. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
Maryland
Emanciptation Proclomation
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Stamp Tax
49. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
Japanese
1850
Federalist Party
Depression of 1870
50. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
The Great Basin
Jamestown
Pilgrims
Federalist Party