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CSET U.S And California History
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1. 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
referendum
Panama Canal
secession
black codes
2. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Revolutionary War
Japanese
secession
3. 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
federalism
Russians
Andrew Johnson
Amerindians
4. Monopoly also called 'an octopus'
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
railroad
water
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
5. People who took land from the original Californios
railroad
squatters
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Major battles of the Civil War
6. In the U.S. Constitution - it is a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government
Chinese
separation of powers
Gold
apparel industry
7. 1492: Columbus - West Indies and Bahamas -1513: Balboa - Panama -1519: Cortes - Mexico -1532: Pizarro - Peru
decline of the Mayan civlization
Pueblo Indians
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Europeans in the New World: Spain
8. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Sebastian Vicaino
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chronological order of the colonies
French and Indian War
9. The Modoc tribe of Northern California tried to take their land by force - the tribe lost and was forced to a reservation in Oregon and their leader was hanged
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Three - Fifths Compromise
Europeans in the New World
Modoc War
10. Established in 1764 - this asct combined new taxes on imports like sugar
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Sir Francis Drake
Sugar Act
Father Fermin Lausen
11. A man - made lake caused by the flooding of a 70- mile long canal from the Colorado river to the Colorado desert
Chinese
black codes
Salton Sea
Death Valley
12. French explorer who mapped the coastline from cape Cod to Nova Scotia - explored Great Lakes and founded Montreal
The Great Basin
Samuel de Champlain
War of 1812
Amendments
13. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
nullification
November 1849
Europeans in the New World
14. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
the Oregon Territory
Depression of 1870
sacred expedition
Constitution
15. Separation of Powers - Checks and Balances - Federal System - Powers of Congress - The Great Compromise - Bill of Rights - Amendments
aeorspace industry
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
New Government
16. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
Andrew Johnson
The Continental Divide
rights of the federal government
Mexican American War
17. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Toltecs
Radical Republicans
water
Father Junipero Serra
18. During Great Depression - the Shasta Dam was built to bring water from the north to meet the farming needs of the South - the CVP was never completed - drained marshalnds and enviromnmental activists were successful at preventing the damming of the A
Jose de Galves
Tea Act of 1773
Yorktown
Central Valley Project
19. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Rhode Island
anti - federalists
free - soil movement
'strict construction'
20. Lake that was drained as a result of the Owens River aqueduct and ultimately led Owens Valley to sue the city of Los Angeles
Francisco Montejo
Compromise of 1850
Mono Lake
Andrew Johnson
21. Mexican leader who closes the missions down except for the churches
Samuel de Champlain
Jose Figueroa
decline of the Mayan civlization
issue of representation under the Constitution
22. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
pueblos
'strict construction'
1850
John C. Fremont
23. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
legislative branch
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
1850
Intolerable Acts of 1774
24. The camps that Japanese peopel were rounded to in WWII
decline of the Mayan civlization
internment camps
Radical Republicans
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
25. The earliest form of the American Constitution that was adopted in 1781. Weak because government could not raise money from states and have no budget - could not regulate trade or conduct foreign policy without obtaining consent from states on each m
Gentleman's Agreement
1850
Mono Lake
Articles of Confederation
26. Established processes for amendment that required 3/4 approval of the states and 2/3 of each house of Congress
The Maya Empire
missions
Amendments
Hopewell people
27. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Johann Sutter
Depression of 1870
Hernando Cortes
Juan Cabrillo
28. 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
Mexicans
French and Indian War
secession
tourism
29. Construction began in 1863 and completed in 1869- done by mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants - met at Promontoary Point in utah
Transcontinental Railroad
French and Indian War
Proposition 13
Europeans in the New World: Britain
30. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Sugar Act
Chinese
Yorktown
melting pot
31. State established in 1638 by a delegation to establish a Swedish colony
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
Thirteenth Amendment
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Delaware
32. Spanish explorer who settled on a Carribbean island but found hismself in debt and wound up relocating on the east coast of what is now Panama - he spied the Pacific Ocean in 1513
Balboa
California
Modoc War
Rhode Island
33. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
The Maya Empire
Mexican - American War
Exeter Compact
November 1849
34. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The interior
Central Valley Project
the Oregon Territory
35. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Amerindians
California
The Great Basin
Gentleman's Agreement
36. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
Olmec Empire
Father Fermin Lausen
forty - niners
England and the colonies: similarities
37. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Whig Party
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Yorktown
Compromise of 1850
38. One of the first American political parties. It was led by Alexander Hamilton - John Adams and John Jay. They beleived in strong central government and loose construction. They wanted to create a national bank and use government funds to support indu
rancho system
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
Federalist Party
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
39. The first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts. It was a religious group that fled Englandfor religious persecution in 1620
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Pilgrims
1850
Hernando Cortes
40. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
Amerindians
apparel industry
tourism
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
41. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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42. 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
The Aztec Empire
Radical Republicans
French and Indian War
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
43. Feature of California's constitution that gives individual citizens - citizen groups the power to placea proposed law on the ballot. Supporers must collect signatures equal to a small percengage of the electorate that votes in the most recent guberna
initiative
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Johann Sutter
Stamp Tax
44. The highest point in California
World War II
Mt. Whitney
free - soil movement
Russians
45. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Pueblo Indians
The Aztec Empire
Articles of Confederation
Great Awakening
46. Area around California that is largest producer of electronics
Maryland
William Penn
Silicon Valley
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
47. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Mayflower Compact
rights of states
Progressives
Sierra Nevadas
48. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
The Continental Divide
Johann Sutter
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
Mexicans
49. Drains the interior of the United States
Union advantage
apparel industry
The Mississippi River
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
50. Led to the chinese being blamed for the lack of jobs and they suffered violence and property damaged
acorns
Depression of 1870
Bill of Rights
The Appalachian Mountains