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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Industry started in California during WWII and based in the Los Angeles - including Long Beach
railroad
Emanciptation Proclomation
executive branch
aeorspace industry
2. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
presidios
southern anad eastern European
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Maryland
3. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
Workingmen's Party
The Maya Empire
Europeans in the New World: France
Amendments
4. Industry based in Southern California areas - focus on casual - warm weather clothing
recall
Commodore Sloat
apparel industry
Locke's beliefs that influenced US constitution
5. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
William Penn
Connecticut Commonwealth
Mayflower Compact
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
6. 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
Revolutionary War
sacred expedition
melting pot
Election of 1876
7. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
water
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
the Great Compromise
presidios
8. 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
Articles of Confederation
Magnuson Act of 1943
Election of 1876
Balboa
9. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
Bill of Rights
Central Valley Project
Federalist Papers
sacred expedition
10. A tax placed on legal documents including newspapers - led to the establishment of the Stamp Act Congress - first assembly of colonialists against British regulation
Johann Sutter
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
Revolutionary War
Stamp Tax
11. A division of power that spells out the roles between the government and the states
2002
Revolutionary War
federalism
Johann Sutter
12. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Hernando Cortes
Russians
railroad
Andrew Johnson
13. Battle between United States and Mexico which followed the annexation of Texas. Led to the United States owning California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Bear Flag Revolt
Declaration of Independence
Mexican American War
14. Prohibited the immigration of Chinese - not repealed until World War II
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Bill of Rights
'strict construction'
Mono Lake
15. In the eastern region of the United States
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Bill of Rights
Europeans in the New World: Spain
railroad
16. Called in 1787 to reform the Articles of Confederation
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
Constitutional Convention
judicial branch
World War II
17. 1608: de Champlain - Canada (Quebec) -1682: La Salle - Louisiana
General Stockton
The interior
Owens River
Europeans in the New World: France
18. Jan. 1 - 1863- the proclamation frees the slaves
missions
England and the colonies: similarities
Jamestown
Emanciptation Proclomation
19. Several preachers started to speak of Christian salvation as something under control of individual - challenged traditional perceptions of Christianity to focus of individual salvation
Great Awakening
Olmec Empire
Exeter Compact
Hopewell people
20. Visor general to New Spain urges kinig that they should settle California before the English or russians took over it - two expeditions went by sea and two expeditions went by land
Tea Act of 1773
Irish
Articles of Confederation
Jose de Galves
21. California industry that counts for 13 percent of gross domestic product and includes the state's theeme parks and urban centers - inlcuidng national wonders
tourism
Mississippian culture
water
Pueblo Indians
22. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Hopewell people
Commodore Sloat
The Gulf Stream
Amerindians
23. Broad interpretation of the Constitution
The interior
Europeans in the New World: France
loose construction
Emanciptation Proclomation
24. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Confederacy advanage
federalism
25. People who took land from the original Californios
tule
Maryland
squatters
Father Fermin Lausen
26. 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
nullification
Federalist Party
Depression of 1870
Confederacy advanage
27. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Chinese
Bill of Rights
Federalist Party
Sebastian Cermeno
28. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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29. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Europeans in the New World: Britain
November 1849
Union advantage
World War II
30. War fought between U.S. and Mexico to gain more territory in the Southwest
Bill of Rights
Mexican - American War
manifest destiny
Louisiana Purchase
31. 1776 Written by Thomas Jefferson - Based on the ideas of English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke - In Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government' (1690) - he set forth basic ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
missions
The Declaration of Independence
The interior
Chinese
32. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Sierra Nevadas
legislative branch
Democratic Republicans
Radical Republicans
33. 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
Francisco Montejo
how Union defeated Confederates
Three - Fifths Compromise
Irish
34. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Tea Act of 1773
Sierra Nevadas
California
Stamp Tax
35. State founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spain to Florida. It was the last of the 13 colonies established
Rodney Case
forty - niners
Georgia
reasons of American immigration
36. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders in 1865 and ends the civil war
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Prevailing Westerlies
Appomattox Court
Federalist Papers
37. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Anasazi culture
Amendments
Missouri Compromise of 1820
38. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
Pony Express
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
Progressives
War of 1812
39. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Henry Hudson
The Gulf Stream
First Continental Congress
tourism
40. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
Sebastian Cermeno
missions
The Continental Divide
Gold
41. Spanish explorer who sailed to Pacific coast to find fabled Northwest Passage - wound up in San Francisco Bay and called the territory Alta California
Juan Cabrillo
merchant Sam Brannon
California Alien Land Act
Owens River
42. 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
Democratic Republicans
Jacksonian democracy
'strict construction'
Important Battles of the Revolution
43. 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
French and Indian War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
French and Indian War
44. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
War of 1812
rights of the federal government
manifest destiny
legislative branch
45. Discovered in 1853- mineres would use powerful hoses to shoot water at the hillsides to wash away the soil and findthe gold - damaged environment and killed fish
hydraulic mining -
Bill of Rights
The Continental Divide
Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854
46. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
1850
England and the colonies: similarities
California Alien Land Act
squatters
47. Major issue that was disputed by population (Virginia Plan) vs. equal representation (the Connecticut Plan)
Chinese
issue of representation under the Constitution
Constitution
Thirteenth Amendment
48. State established in 1636 by Roger Williams to acknowledge religious freedom and the separation of 'church and state'
melting pot
Rhode Island
Toltecs
Delaware
49. Lincoln's vice president became president
Andrew Johnson
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mayflower Compact
Owens River
50. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
General Stockton and General Kearney
acorns
Jacksonian democracy
Europeans in the New World
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