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CSET U.S And California History
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1. Renamed the Southern Pacific Company and controlled all the railroads in California - president was Leland Stanford was a California governor and U.S. Senator
Jacques Cartier
Central Pacific Railroad
The Gulf Stream
federalism
2. 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
pueblos
tourism
secession
legislative branch
3. The idea that various immigrants cultural differences were minimized and assimilated together
melting pot
Francisco Montejo
acorns
Hetch Hetchy Dam
4. 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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5. 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
Jamestown
Whig Party
initiative
World War II
6. MesoAmerican tribe that preceded the Aztecs but followed from the Mayans
internment camps
rights of states
Toltecs
Europeans in the New World: France
7. Final battle of the Revolutionary war. British stronghold falls in 1781 and George Washington captures British general Lord cornwallis
Stamp Tax
Owens River
Gentleman's Agreement
Yorktown
8. Dutch East India Company explorer who found New York and the mouth of the Hudson River
Mojave Desert and the Colorado desert
Salton Sea
Henry Hudson
nullification
9. Movement established to say that no slaves would be on the new western territories
General Stockton and General Kearney
executive branch
free - soil movement
Hernando Cortes
10. Restrucutred local control over property taxes and led to cutbacks in taxes and decrease in the tax base available to fund social services
internment camps
Proposition 13
Gold
England and the colonies: differences
11. English explorer who sailed up the California coast to the pacific Northwest
Sir Francis Drake
Europeans in the New World
Toltecs
the conquistadores
12. 1609: Hudson - New Netherlands (New York)
Articles of Confederation
Dust Bowl
Thirteenth Amendment
Europeans in the New World: Netherlands
13. Spanish conquistador who settled in Panama in 1520 - became governor of Peru and conquered the Inca empire based there
The Great Basin
The Piedmont
Francisco Pizarro
Watts Riots
14. 1607: Virginia Co. - Jamestown (Virginia)
Jacques Cartier
anti - federalists
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Rhode Island
15. Print money - regulate interstae and international trade - make treaties - declare war and field armed forces - establish post office - make laws necessarsy to execute powers
rights of the federal government
Thirteenth Amendment
Rodney Case
Maryland
16. 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
Thirteenth Amendment
Mexican American War
Workingmen's Party
Anasazi culture
17. Towns that grew around the missions and presidios as settlers moved up from Mexico
pueblos
Mt. Whitney
Progressives
Death Valley
18. The first declaration of self - government in the New World
Three - Fifths Compromise
Mayflower Compact
recall
Bill of Rights
19. Provided more funding and gave the railroads ten square miles of land to the tracks for every mile of track laid
Railroad Act of 1864
Connecticut Commonwealth
General Stockton
secession
20. War in which Spain relinquished its North American claims east of the Mississippi River
Sugar Act
Three - Fifths Compromise
French and Indian War
The Industrial Era of the United States
21. 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
Townsheld Acts of 1767
The Industrial Era of the United States
black codes
Bill of Rights
22. Captured Monterey Bay and claimed thearea for the United States
Toltecs
the conquistadores
Commodore Sloat
Okies
23. 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
French and Indian War
Land Commission
squatters
Jacksonian democracy
24. A new reform movement established in California favored workers rights and the people over big corporations
missions
England and the colonies: similarities
Jose de Galves
Progressives
25. The immigration group that helped build the railroads later settled in San Francisco. They took low wage jobs and later became small business entrepreneurs
Chinese
Ten Percent Plan
Father Junipero Serra
Francisco Pizarro
26. 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
Confederacy advanage
Compromise of 1850
Europeans in the New World: France
Modoc War
27. Explorers commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Lousiiana territory
the Great Compromise
free - soil movement
federalism
Lewis and Clark
28. Northern California Indian tribes
Russians
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
aeorspace industry
free - soil movement
29. 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
Prevailing Westerlies
Europeans in the New World: Britain
Pomo - Miwok - Maidu - and Yokuts
Mayflower Compact
30. People who took land from the original Californios
Mexicans
Francisco Pizarro
Uncle Tom's Cabin
squatters
31. The land between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
The Great Basin
Central Pacific Railroad
Silicon Valley
32. The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the hemisphere and especially spread the good news of democracy
Declaration of Independence
Chumash - Tongya (Gabrielino) - Salinan - Cahuilla
The Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus
manifest destiny
33. Native American empire with stepped pyramids - utilized multiple calendars - and possessede extensive astronomical knowledge
The Appalachian Mountains
Pilgrims
The Maya Empire
pueblos
34. More restrictive legislation towards Japanese and that they were inelgible for citizenship and could not own land
California Alien Land Act
Battle of Gettysberg
rights of the federal government
Thirteenth Amendment
35. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a heroic slave - further spurred the need for slaves to be free
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36. 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.
Sebastian Vicaino
The Inca Empire
The Declaration of Independence
merchant Sam Brannon
37. Decision that said that slaves count as three - fifths of the population
Land Commission
the Great Compromise
presidios
Three - Fifths Compromise
38. Opened in 1914 and extends international links
Connecticut Commonwealth
Panama Canal
Andrew Johnson
executive branch
39. Native American group who inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Hetch Hetchy Dam
Pueblo Indians
Townsheld Acts of 1767
rights of states
40. Caused from multiple Spanish invasions - economic wars between divided tribes
decline of the Mayan civlization
Hernando Cortes
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
Connecticut Commonwealth
41. A new group of immigrants that swelled in the midwestern and eastern cities. They lived in sseperate neighborhoods known as ghettos
southern anad eastern European
Balboa
The Piedmont
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Conneticut)
42. 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
Transcontinental Railroad
Tea Act of 1773
Anasazi culture
Election of 1876
43. A dam across the Tuolumne River that would flood Yosemite - protested by naturalist John Muir. Instead - an aqueduct was constructed to carry water from the reservoir to the city
2002
Confederacy advanage
Whig Party
Hetch Hetchy Dam
44. The rise of 'the common man' through the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1820s
Francisco Pizarro
Okies
French and Indian War
Jacksonian democracy
45. The year that California becomes the 31st state in the Union thanks to a compromise over slavery
Transcontinental Railroad
Angel Island
1850
Yurok - Hupa - Shasta - Modoc - Achumawi
46. 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
Europeans in the New World: Portugal
decline of the Mayan civlization
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Chinese
47. Act passed by British to prevent colonial town meetings
Mississippian culture
Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Declaration of Independence
California
48. Authored by Thomas Jefferson and focused on the declaration of 'life - liberty - and pursuit of happiness'
Declaration of Independence
issue of representation under the Constitution
Revolutionary War
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
49. In the eastern region of the United States - In the Northeast - they meat the ocean - forming a rough - rocky coast
The Appalachian Mountains
Three - Fifths Compromise
Georgia
Battle of Fort Sumter of 1861
50. 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
legislative branch
Jose de Galves
Depression of 1870
rights of states