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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Material that led to California to be populated by 40000 miners from all over the United States
Gold
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Ten Percent Plan
2. Powers explicitly mentioned in Constitution were fedreal powers
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3. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
separation of powers
1850
forty - niners
Pilgrims
4. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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5. 10 amendments in the U.S. Constitution that ensured that individuals and states would not suffer from excessive and arbitrary federal power
judicial branch
Radical Republicans
Workingmen's Party
Bill of Rights
6. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Jacques Cartier
Angel Island
7. Spanish conquistador's search of the Seven Cities of Cibola led to Spanish exploration of the Baja Peninsula
Magnuson Act of 1943
Hernando Cortez
Bear Flag Revolt
Bill of Rights
8. The first English settlement in the New World in 1607
Olmec Empire
Samuel de Champlain
Mexican American War
Jamestown
9. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
internment camps
California Alien Land Act
First Continental Congress
10. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Amendments
sacred expedition
missions
Trenton
11. 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
Proclamation of 1763
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Constitutional Convention
Townsheld Acts of 1767
12. 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
California
melting pot
Democratic Republicans
Battle of Gettysberg
13. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Lewis and Clark
Bill of Rights
14. Industry in California employs more thtan 500000 people mostly in Hollywood
California Alien Land Act
entertainment
Emanciptation Proclomation
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
15. A major food staple of California native American tribes
Whig Party
acorns
California
Three - Fifths Compromise
16. War that helped California get into a real estate boom fueled by the housing industry and reach 6 million people in population
World War II
aeorspace industry
Rhode Island
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
17. 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
southern anad eastern European
Germans
Balboa
18. Immigrant group that had already moved to Hawaii
California Alien Land Act
Radical Republicans
Japanese
Sebastian Cermeno
19. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
presidios
Japanese
the Great Compromise
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
20. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
reasons of American immigration
Panama Canal
Magnuson Act of 1943
21. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
Owens River
Balboa
Puritans
22. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
manifest destiny
Georgia
The interior
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
23. 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
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The Inca Empire
southern anad eastern European
24. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
2002
Silicon Valley
Confederacy advanage
Three - Fifths Compromise
25. Further tightened taxation and regulatory noose
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Workingmen's Party
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Europeans in the New World: Britain
26. 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
Depression of 1870
Yorktown
Rodney Case
Central Valley
27. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
nullification
Delaware
Constitution
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
28. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
forty - niners
Stamp Tax
Yorktown
Jose de Galves
29. 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
French and Indian War
executive branch
Francisco Montejo
Modoc War
30. The founder of the San Diego mission - the first of the 21 original Spanish Catholic missions in California - later established seven missions on the El Camino Real (The Royal Road)
William Penn
Father Junipero Serra
anti - federalists
manifest destiny
31. Native American empire that ruled from capital of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. They had mulltiple calendars - system of writing and economy dependent on tribute. Also focused on worship of a sun god and human sacrifice
nullification
The Aztec Empire
melting pot
Mono Lake
32. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Louisiana Purchase
John C. Fremont
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
recall
33. A group of colonists that meti nPhiladelphia to plan steps for resistance to British authority
Major battles of the Civil War
Francisco Montejo
Great Awakening
First Continental Congress
34. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
free - soil movement
Commodore Sloat
Constitution
Anasazi culture
35. A Quaker who received land to estsablish Pennsylvania as the first Enlightenment - inspired government entity and abolished slavery
Europeans in the New World: France
Declaration of Independence
William Penn
water
36. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
forty - niners
Mono Lake
decline of the Mayan civlization
Mexican American War
37. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
the conquistadores
The Maya Empire
decline of the Mayan civlization
38. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
French and Indian War
Mayflower Compact
The interior
Sugar Act
39. (Mnemonic: Fat babies love to piss - **** - yell.) Fort Ticonderoga - Bunker Hill - Long Island - Trenton - Princeton - Saratoga - Yorktown
Federalist Party
Important Battles of the Revolution
War of 1812
Sierra Nevadas
40. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
federalism
Juan Cabrillo
Pilgrims
Central Valley Project
41. 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
Pueblo Indians
tule
Henry Hudson
42. The first constitution to realizeno authrotiy than its own and governed the common wealth
Connecticut Commonwealth
Quartering Act
1850
Great Awakening
43. 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
The Appalachian Mountains
Election of 1876
Mexican - American War
Owens River
44. 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
Andrew Johnson
Compromise of 1850
tourism
General Stockton
45. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
water
Townsheld Acts of 1767
nullification
sacred expedition
46. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
water
California
Henry Hudson
Three - Fifths Compromise
47. Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act
1850
Important Battles of the Revolution
Ten Percent Plan
Magnuson Act of 1943
48. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Jamestown
rights of states
Bear Flag Revolt
Hernando Cortez
49. 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
Whig Party
Quartering Act
Tea Act of 1773
Radical Republicans
50. 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
California
Sebastian Cermeno
Watts Riots
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