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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Native American group who were skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Hopewell people
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Sir Francis Drake
Amendments
2. Treaty with Japan in 1907 that allowed wives to join theier husbands in the U.S. if the Japanese deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the United States - led to the picture brides who married Japanese men who they had never met
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3. Southern states threatened to secede if this state was admitted as a free state
Europeans in the New World
Henry Hudson
California
rights of the federal government
4. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
Pueblo Indians
southern anad eastern European
Land Commission
Irish
5. Immigrant group that joined Irish on the Gold Rush and railroad construction - opened businesses and were envied by others
Central Pacific Railroad
squatters
Chinese
legislative branch
6. People have certain natural rights including life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - Government is set by the consent of the governed - It is the right of the people to overthrow unjust governments
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7. 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
Immigration Act of 1965
Salton Sea
Jacques Cartier
Central Pacific Railroad
8. Where the British were defeated and led to expansion of battle from Canada and New York
Major battles of the Civil War
Puritans
Trenton
The southeastern Coastal Plain
9. The crest of the Rocky Mountains - Rivers that begin east of it flow toward the Atlantic Ocean - Western rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean
'strict construction'
The Continental Divide
Prevailing Westerlies
First Continental Congress
10. The idea that southern staets should refuse to obey the laws tha t they did not agree with
nullification
Irish
2002
Hiram Johnson
11. Acknowledged the tension between the economic and political status of minorities
Land Commission
pueblos
Europeans in the New World: Spain
Watts Riots
12. Immigrant group that crossed California's border. The border remains easily crossed even though there is a frequent loss of life
World War II
Whig Party
Second Constitutional Congress
Mexicans
13. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
The Mississippi River
Rodney Case
Jacksonian democracy
federalism
14. Addition of new territories would decide if they were going to be slave or non - slave owning states
Missouri Compromise of 1820
entertainment
The Gulf Stream
Mexican American War
15. Compact used to colonize New Hampshire
Georgia
Exeter Compact
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Mt. Whitney
16. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
The Appalachian Mountains
Henry Hudson
Modoc War
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range
17. The highest point in California
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Compromise of 1850
acorns
Mt. Whitney
18. The number one resource that California is quickly running out of with its ever growing population
Railroad Act of 1864
Federalist Papers
rights of states
water
19. A major mountain range in California
Sierra Nevadas
Germans
Death Valley
The Aztec Empire
20. America's new settlers transplanted long - standing traditions of England's government - with the first important steps taken by the earliest colonies of Plymouth (Massachusetts) and Virginia. - All of England's colonies based their goverming systems
Germans
Railroad Act of 1864
Georgia
England and the colonies: similarities
21. (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
First Continental Congress
Mexicans
Chronological order of the colonies
The interior
22. Written by John Jay - Alexander Hamilton and James Madison about the need of a strong federal government
how Union defeated Confederates
Federalist Papers
Sugar Act
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
23. The wind west of the Appalachians - An importance influence on climate: In the winter - cold air from the northwest produces freezing temperatures - In the summer - warm - moist southwesterly winds cause hot - humid weather
Death Valley
Mayflower Compact
Prevailing Westerlies
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
24. Established a Senate with equal representation and House of Representatives based on population
rights of states
recall
the Great Compromise
Magnuson Act of 1943
25. Etsablished and was nativist - anti - Chinese - and anti - big business
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26. The year and month that California approves its first constitution
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Central Valley
rights of the federal government
November 1849
27. Early U.S. poltiical party who supported the Federalists and were pretty wealthy. They later emerged in the 1850s as the republican party with the
Battle of Gettysberg
Dust Bowl
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Whig Party
28. The foothills at the base of the Appalachian mountains - In the eastern region of the United States
Pony Express
The Piedmont
Jacksonian democracy
Balboa
29. The first battle of the Civil War. Seccessionists fire on the remaining Union sronghold in the South.
Silicon Valley
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
Articles of Confederation
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
30. Lincoln's vice president became president
Prevailing Westerlies
Olmec Empire
Andrew Johnson
Constitution
31. 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
Russians
War of 1812
Democratic Republicans
Trenton
32. In the U.S. constitution - it interpets the laws
judicial branch
Chinese
Democratic Republicans
The Aztec Empire
33. System of land distribution in which there were very few wealthy land owners and many landless workers
Federalist Papers
Sebastian Vicaino
The Inca Empire
rancho system
34. 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
the Oregon Territory
Mississippian culture
initiative
Germans
35. Southeatern California native american tribes
Quechan (Yuma) and Mohave tribes
Maryland
Hopewell people
World War II
36. Ultiimately defeated General Pico and re - captured Los Angeles in 1847 - ending the Mexican American war
Russians
The Inca Empire
Yorktown
General Stockton and General Kearney
37. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Constitution
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Okies
1850
38. A group of Republicans that were outraged that former Confederate officials were being elected back to Congress
Silicon Valley
Mayflower Compact
The southeastern Coastal Plain
Radical Republicans
39. From Spain - Portugal - Britain - France and the Netherlands
Europeans in the New World: Britain
The Gulf Stream
Europeans in the New World
1850
40. Group who explored south of Alaska for fur trade - establish Fort Ross in San Francisco as a trading post
Germans
Russians
Olmec Empire
The Gulf Stream
41. In the U.S. constitution - it makes the laws
Owens River
legislative branch
Olmec Empire
Salton Sea
42. Farm worker advocates who founded the United Farm Workers Union in 1962
Silicon Valley
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Mono Lake
forty - niners
43. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
California Alien Land Act
nullification
Revolutionary War
44. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Thirteenth Amendment
Pilgrims
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
Panama Canal
45. The Spanish attempt to colonize California by building Missionsand converting the Spanish
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
sacred expedition
Japanese
Major battles of the Civil War
46. Spanish explorer who explored coastal areas of San diego - Santa Barbara and Monterrey
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
Sebastian Vicaino
Mexican Independence
47. Economic opportunity - freedom of religion and expresion - and adventure
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
reasons of American immigration
Railroad Act of 1864
Father Junipero Serra
48. 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
Jacques Cartier
Mississippian culture
Second Constitutional Congress
referendum
49. 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
The Industrial Era of the United States
England and the colonies: similarities
Angel Island
Mississippian culture
50. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Proposition 13
First Continental Congress
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