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CSET U.S And California History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Exeter Compact
Articles of Confederation
Ten Percent Plan
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
2. Most of it is generally flat land: - The eastern half is called the interior lowlands - The western half is called the Great Plains
The interior
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Sebastian Vicaino
3. 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
The Continental Divide
Europeans in the New World: France
Mississippian culture
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. Forced colonists to provide housing to British soldiers
Europeans in the New World
Railroad Act of 1864
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Quartering Act
6. Ended the Mexican American War and brought California - Arizona - New Mesxico - Nevada - Utah - Colorado and Wyoming into the mix
the conquistadores
The Piedmont
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Lewis and Clark
7. Raised theflag near Monterey and then retreated from the area - started the Mexican Americna War
Revolutionary War
Magnuson Act of 1943
rights of the federal government
John C. Fremont
8. River 100 miles North of Los Angeles that the city of Los Angeles built an aqueduct on to bring the water to Los Angeles
issue of representation under the Constitution
General Stockton and General Kearney
Owens River
The Declaration of Independence
9. sawmill owner whose employee John Marshall discovered discover gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills
Sir Francis Drake
Georgia
Johann Sutter
Proposition 13
10. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
tule
Mexican American War
judicial branch
11. An Atlantic warm - water current that warms the East Coast in winter and is responsible for excellent fishing
recall
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
The Gulf Stream
Hopewell people
12. 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
Battle of Gettysberg
black codes
Central Valley Project
presidios
13. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Gentleman's Agreement
Henry Hudson
internment camps
The Declaration of Independence
14. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Land Commission
Proclamation of 1763
Bill of Rights
15. California governor election promises to break Southern Pacific's grip on the state - won and passed many progressive goals
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Louisiana Purchase
Hiram Johnson
Father Fermin Lausen
16. The first civlization to develop in MesoAmerica and were the first to develop a calendar and agrciultural community in America
Olmec Empire
Sugar Act
The Declaration of Independence
the conquistadores
17. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
Balboa
Declaration of Independence
Rhode Island
Johann Sutter
18. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
hydraulic mining -
Townsheld Acts of 1767
Proclamation of 1763
Declaration of Independence
19. Established states of Nebraska and Kansas with popular sovereignty but motivated Northerneres to protest against slavery because it was pandering to the South
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
John C. Fremont
Whig Party
Ten Percent Plan
20. Reeds used by central California native Americans to build homes
Sierra Nevadas
November 1849
The Industrial Era of the United States
tule
21. Lincoln's vice president became president
executive branch
Jacksonian democracy
Puritans
Andrew Johnson
22. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
aeorspace industry
Mayflower Compact
2002
Yorktown
23. U.S. Act that helped reduce instances of religious descrimination
Confederacy advanage
Russians
legislative branch
Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
24. The major Union battle victory in 1863 that led to The Gettysberg Address - Lincoln's declaration that the Union will not be divided
Battle of Gettysberg
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
the Great Compromise
Angel Island
25. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
how Union defeated Confederates
Great Awakening
pueblos
Jacques Cartier
26. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Amendments
Maryland
rancho system
The Continental Divide
27. An act in 1882 that barred immigration of Chiense laborers and gave immigration officals the ability to define what a laborer is - Chinese wives also forbidden to rejoin their husbands and Chiense were ineligible for citizenship
free - soil movement
Gentleman's Agreement
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Piedmont
28. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Samuel de Champlain
French and Indian War
Rhode Island
rights of the federal government
29. War between Mexico and Spain that led to Mexico's independence and ownership of California in 1810
Railroad Act of 1864
Toltecs
internment camps
Mexican Independence
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)
Father Junipero Serra
The Piedmont
black codes
entertainment
31. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Radical Republicans
Okies
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
The Mississippi River
32. 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
Okies
The Piedmont
Irish
Railroad Act of 1864
33. West Point graduates and used to handling firearms and driven
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Confederacy advanage
November 1849
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
34. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Georgia
Democratic Republicans
Germans
New Government
35. Spanish forts that were built for missionaries and settlers to hide in when Indians revolted
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Anasazi culture
presidios
Panama Canal
36. An effort to establish an indepndent California republic
Confederacy advanage
Bear Flag Revolt
Toltecs
rights of the federal government
37. Northern California Indian tribes
Europeans in the New World: Britain
free - soil movement
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Whig Party
38. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
referendum
'strict construction'
nullification
The Appalachian Mountains
39. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
aeorspace industry
railroad
pueblos
40. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
merchant Sam Brannon
how Union defeated Confederates
southern anad eastern European
Gentleman's Agreement
41. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Pueblo Indians
Railroad Act of 1864
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
squatters
42. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Watts Riots
Uncle Tom's Cabin
French and Indian War
43. 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
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
tule
rights of states
First Continental Congress
44. Completes the rest of the Spanish missions following Junipero Serra's death
judicial branch
Sierra Nevadas
Father Fermin Lausen
Hernando Cortes
45. Biggest immigrant group from 1850 to 1900. They successfully developed farms in the Midwest and skilled trades in larger cities.
Andrew Johnson
manifest destiny
Magnuson Act of 1943
Germans
46. Codes that were created to restrict rights and freedoms of the slaves in the South - the concept of seperate but equal
England and the colonies: differences
black codes
Balboa
William Penn
47. 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
issue of representation under the Constitution
forty - niners
Bill of Rights
Johann Sutter
48. War fought between America and Britain and it was caused by violations of U.S. neutrality and impressment of U.S. sailors. Victory led to national pride - self - sufficiency - and foreign credibility
Salton Sea
Sugar Act
War of 1812
Constitution
49. Strong believers in the human capacity to do the right thing and did not need a strong central government
acorns
Mayflower Compact
anti - federalists
Bill of Rights
50. 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
Mexican American War
Amerindians
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Progressives