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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Year that California faces largest budget deficit
2002
Pueblo Indians
Mt. Whitney
Mayflower Compact
2. Lincoln's vice president became president
entertainment
Revolutionary War
Andrew Johnson
Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. The final document that established United States government. It had to be ratified by at least nine states - process now is 2/3s of Congress and 38 out of 50 states
Constitution
judicial branch
Hernando Cortez
Townsheld Acts of 1767
4. 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: Netherlands
reasons of American immigration
Land Commission
French and Indian War
5. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
French and Indian War
Chinese
Central Pacific Railroad
The Inca Empire
6. 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
Europeans in the New World: France
Proclamation of 1763
General Stockton
Bill of Rights
7. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Confederacy advanage
Major battles of the Civil War
Constitutional Convention
Mayflower Compact
8. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
Proposition 13
Union advantage
The Inca Empire
Angel Island
9. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Amendments
Watts Riots
Three - Fifths Compromise
free - soil movement
10. Established immigration quotas by eastern and western hemispheres rather than by county. Immigrants were brought in based on skills - need for family reunification - or status as poltical or economic refugees. Led to floods of immigrants came from As
squatters
The Inca Empire
Immigration Act of 1965
Balboa
11. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
The Piedmont
Lewis and Clark
Battle of Gettysberg
Chinese
12. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
Whig Party
The Inca Empire
Confederacy advanage
Commodore Sloat
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
Europeans in the New World: Britain
nullification
free - soil movement
The Industrial Era of the United States
14. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
aeorspace industry
Pony Express
Puritans
decline of the Mayan civlization
15. The first conquistador and defeated the Aztec Empire in 1521 after they saw his arrival as a divine arrival of a god and let him into their empire
Francisco Pizarro
Pueblo Indians
Hernando Cortes
Yorktown
16. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Amendments
Johann Sutter
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Pony Express
17. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
The Continental Divide
'strict construction'
Europeans in the New World: Spain
hydraulic mining -
18. In the U.S. constitution - it enforces laws
The Chinese Exclusion Act
executive branch
Immigration Act of 1965
Hiram Johnson
19. Developed in 880 AD in the Mississippi and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
French and Indian War
Mt. Whitney
20. 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
Whig Party
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Pony Express
21. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Battle of Gettysberg
Constitution
Henry Hudson
Chinese
22. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
The interior
Death Valley
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
federalism
23. 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
Watts Riots
Progressives
Railroad Act of 1864
24. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Sierra Nevadas
Samuel de Champlain
Second Constitutional Congress
25. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
the Oregon Territory
Rodney Case
entertainment
26. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Constitutional Convention
Maryland
internment camps
27. 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
Salton Sea
Three - Fifths Compromise
forty - niners
legislative branch
28. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Progressives
Father Junipero Serra
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
29. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
separation of powers
Mexican Independence
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
federalism
30. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
California
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Piedmont
31. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
squatters
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Father Junipero Serra
apparel industry
32. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Pilgrims
executive branch
33. 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
Amerindians
Federalist Party
Tea Act of 1773
War of 1812
34. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
The Industrial Era of the United States
Mexican - American War
2002
Toltecs
35. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
Rodney Case
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Land Commission
36. Captured Los Angeles until it was rec - captured by Governor Pico and General Castro for Mexico
England and the colonies: similarities
Rodney Case
General Stockton
railroad
37. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Sierra Nevadas
John C. Fremont
Mexican - American War
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
38. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
Modoc War
California
decline of the Mayan civlization
federalism
39. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
Mono Lake
Okies
free - soil movement
Amendments
40. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Stamp Tax
Jose de Galves
Democratic Republicans
the Great Compromise
41. People who took land from the original Californios
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
initiative
Father Fermin Lausen
squatters
42. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Louisiana Purchase
how Union defeated Confederates
Samuel de Champlain
General Stockton and General Kearney
43. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
manifest destiny
General Stockton and General Kearney
Union advantage
Europeans in the New World
44. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Yorktown
Germans
Jose de Galves
Rhode Island
45. 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
England and the colonies: differences
Pony Express
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
free - soil movement
46. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Sir Francis Drake
issue of representation under the Constitution
Mexican - American War
The Continental Divide
47. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Rhode Island
Gold
Pony Express
Connecticut Commonwealth
48. (Mnemonic: Very many nice men came running down North Street - not needing police guards.) 1. Virginia 2. Massachusetts 3. New Hampshire 4. Maryland 5. Connecticut 6. Rhode Island 7. Delaware 8. North Carolina 9. South Carolina 10. New Jersey 11. New
Chronological order of the colonies
forty - niners
the Great Compromise
Jose de Galves
49. Spanish explorer who found Monterey Bay
black codes
free - soil movement
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Sebastian Cermeno
50. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
melting pot
Pony Express
Proclamation of 1763
Mexicans