Kaplan CSET History Vocabulary.txt

a man-made channel constructed to convey water from one location to another

a brief attempt at the beginning of the Mexican-American war to establish an independent California republic

the code of knights in feudal Japan, the equivalent of chivalry in Europe

a "sacred expedition" in which twenty-one Spanish Catholic missions were established spaced to be a single day's travel apart on El Camino Real (The Royal Road)

residents of the rancho system in California just before the Mexican-American War, mainly composed of Mexican citizens who identified more as Californios than as Mexicans

an economic system regulated by the state that encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals

a division of society based on difference of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, or occupation

a federal water project undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1935 as a long-term plan to effectively use water in California's Central valley

written into the Constitution, this concept is one of the cornerstones of our republic, encompassing three branches of government and a system forthem to act as watchdogs for the others

to sail completely around the Earth

The first known written legal code, developed in ancient Babylon, predated the Justinian Code by about 2,000 years

an economic system in which the state controls the means of production and distributes the profits

Spanish explorers that sought riches in Central and South America, establishing colonies along the way

Japanese feudal lord

one of the first two political parties in the United States, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Morison; opposed the Federalist party and was strongly in favor of individuals rights

a social science dealing with the production, distribution, and consumption of good and services

a proclamation made by President Lincoln in 1863 freeing all slaves in regions still fighting against the Union

a branch of the system of checks and balances that sees that the country's laws are executed

a system of government consisting of a number of self-governing regions (states) united by central (federal) government

a series of articles written in 1787 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and JOhn Jay to gain popular support for the then-proposed Constition

a social, economic, and political system in which power is decentralized, and a varying number of lords hold land on which they allow others to live and work in return for loyalty and service

land held by lords under the feudal system

nickname for the influx of people that arrived in California, starting in 1849, in search for gold

a minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period that opposed the extension of slavery in the western territories.

a 1907 treaty with Japan that allowed wives to join their husbands in the US on the condition that the Japanese government deny exit visas to any men wishing to emigrate to the states

a religious revival in the colonies during the first part of the eighteenth century

a decision made by the Constitutional Congress splitting Congress into two houses, one based on population (House of Representatives), and one based on equal representation (the Senate)

an early society in which men hunted for meat and women gathered more readily available food

a process that gives individual citizens, or groups of citizens, the power to place a proposed law on a ballot

British reaction to the Boston Tea Party, including more rigid restrictions on colonial town meetings and other harsh penalites

a branch of the system of checks and balances that interprets Congressional laws

considered to be the basis for the justice system in use throughout much of the western world, including the US

established to settle the Californios' land claims during the first few years of California's statehood

a basic economical principle stating that if supply is greater than demand, the value of the product is lower, if demand is greater than supply, than the value is higher

a branch of the system of checks and balances that makes Congressional laws

1803 purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson that essentially doubled the US territory

an 1845 phrase encapsulating the American vision of western expansion

the practice of state regulation and control of an economy

1820 legislation that tried to resolve the conflicts raised by the addition of new territories as either slave or non-slave owning areas

the worship of only one god

a concept espoused by southerners following the Missouri Compromise that would have given southern states the right to refuse to obey laws they did not agree with

a term used to describe the Central Pacific Railroad's monopoly for having an arm in practically every sector of California's commerce

a religious group who had broken away from the Church of England, first relocating to Holland to escape persecution, then setting sail in the fall of 1620 to become the first settlers to arrive in Massachusetts

a direct democracy

forts built by the Spanish to offer protection to California's missionaries and settlers during periods of violent revolts by native workers

towns based around California's missions and presidios, built around a church and a town square

a land allotment system defined by a few large landowners and many landless workers

a mechanism for ending an elected official's tenure before its scheduled completion

President Lincoln's first priority after the Civil War to reconcile the warring sides and rebuild areas affected by war

a statute or amendment that has passe the state legislature, which is then placed on a ballot for approval by the electorate

a religious belief in which, after physical death, a rebirth in another body occurs; a central tenet of Hinduism, among other religions

internment camps that held people of Japanese descent during WWII

a French word meaning rebirth; the name given to the flowering of European culture at the end of the Medieval Period

the self-given right of seven states of the lower South to leave the Union if they so desired

a philosophy, along with election rules, that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after reconstruction ended

peasants who work on land in a feudal system

in feudal Japan, the equivalent of a medieval European king

a nickname for the southern part of the san Francisco Bay Area in northern California, originally referring to the concentration of  silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually referring to the entire concentration of all types of high-tech businesses

an economic system in which workers control the means of production and share in the profits of their labor

a plan created by President Lincoln before his assassination, and carried out by his successor, Andrew Johnson, stating that a state could be readmitted to the Union if ten percent of the former Confederates in the state who had voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the union

an initial rule in the Constitution stating that in state population counts, each slave would count for three-fifths of a free person

the equivalent of a knight in the feudal system