CHST Exam Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
Chumash Rebellion - ✔✔The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash Native Americans
against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands.
Seculatization of missions - ✔✔Between 1834 and 1836, the Mexican government confiscated California
mission properties and exiled the Franciscan friars. The missions were secularized--broken up and their
property sold or given away to private citizens. Secularization was supposed to return the land to the
Indians.
Mission Indians - ✔✔Spanish explorers arrived on California's coasts as early as the mid-16th century. In
1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in San Diego. Local tribes were relocated and
conscripted into forced labor on the mission, stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. Disease,
starvation, over work, and torture decimated these tribes.[1] Many were baptized as Roman Catholics
by the Franciscan missionaries at the missions.
Californios - ✔✔Californios as "persons of Spanish or Mexican heritage whose place of birth or residence
was California, as distinct from residents who went to California from the U.S. or elsewhere
John C Fremont - ✔✔Frémont was convicted in court martial for mutiny and insubordination over a
conflict of who was the military Governor of California.
Bear Flaggers - ✔✔During the Bear Flag Revolt, from June to July 1846, a small group of American
settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an
independent republic. The republic was short-lived because soon after the Bear Flag was raised, the U.S.
military began occupying California, which went on to join the union in 1850. The Bear Flag became the
official state flag in 1911.
Gold Rush - ✔✔The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and resulted in a precipitous
population decline from disease, genocide and starvation. By the time it ended, California had gone
from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to the home state of the first nominee for the Republican
Party.
Cholos - ✔✔a Latin American with Indian blood; a mestizo
, Foreign Miner's Tax - ✔✔In 1850 the first California state legislature passed the first Foreign Miners Tax
Law, levying a twenty dollars per month tax on each foreigner engaged in mining. A revolt resulted and
it was repealed in 1851. The Foreign Miners Tax Law was reenacted in 1852.
California Land act of 1851 - ✔✔The United States, having ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that
ended the Mexican-American War, chose to disregard those Articles of the Treaty that promised to
honor the ownership of existing Spanish and Mexican land grants with its own Land Claims Act of 1851
Civil Practice Act of 1850 - ✔✔Originally, the CCP was the codification of the Practice Act of 1851, as
amended and revised. In turn, the Practice Act had been modeled after the New York Code of Civil
Procedure of 1850, which was largely drafted by the law reformer David Dudley Field II.
1855 Greaser Act - ✔✔The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in
California, to target those of Mexican descent, among others, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived
as violating its anti-vagrancy statute
Josefa Segovia - ✔✔also more commonly known as "Juanita", was a Mexican-American woman who was
executed by hanging in Downieville, California on July 5, 1851. ... She is known to be the first and only
woman to be hanged in California.
Lynching - ✔✔As well as being hanged, victims were sometimes burned alive and tortured, with body
parts removed and kept as souvenirs
Vigilantism - ✔✔"Vigilante justice" is often rationalized by the concept that proper legal forms of
criminal punishment are either nonexistent, insufficient, or inefficient. Vigilantes normally see the
government as ineffective in enforcing the law; such individuals often claim to justify their actions as a
fulfillment of the wishes of the community.
Francisco and benito lugo - ✔✔
Captain irving - ✔✔
Fransico Ramirez - ✔✔
Chumash Rebellion - ✔✔The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash Native Americans
against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands.
Seculatization of missions - ✔✔Between 1834 and 1836, the Mexican government confiscated California
mission properties and exiled the Franciscan friars. The missions were secularized--broken up and their
property sold or given away to private citizens. Secularization was supposed to return the land to the
Indians.
Mission Indians - ✔✔Spanish explorers arrived on California's coasts as early as the mid-16th century. In
1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in San Diego. Local tribes were relocated and
conscripted into forced labor on the mission, stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. Disease,
starvation, over work, and torture decimated these tribes.[1] Many were baptized as Roman Catholics
by the Franciscan missionaries at the missions.
Californios - ✔✔Californios as "persons of Spanish or Mexican heritage whose place of birth or residence
was California, as distinct from residents who went to California from the U.S. or elsewhere
John C Fremont - ✔✔Frémont was convicted in court martial for mutiny and insubordination over a
conflict of who was the military Governor of California.
Bear Flaggers - ✔✔During the Bear Flag Revolt, from June to July 1846, a small group of American
settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an
independent republic. The republic was short-lived because soon after the Bear Flag was raised, the U.S.
military began occupying California, which went on to join the union in 1850. The Bear Flag became the
official state flag in 1911.
Gold Rush - ✔✔The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and resulted in a precipitous
population decline from disease, genocide and starvation. By the time it ended, California had gone
from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to the home state of the first nominee for the Republican
Party.
Cholos - ✔✔a Latin American with Indian blood; a mestizo
, Foreign Miner's Tax - ✔✔In 1850 the first California state legislature passed the first Foreign Miners Tax
Law, levying a twenty dollars per month tax on each foreigner engaged in mining. A revolt resulted and
it was repealed in 1851. The Foreign Miners Tax Law was reenacted in 1852.
California Land act of 1851 - ✔✔The United States, having ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that
ended the Mexican-American War, chose to disregard those Articles of the Treaty that promised to
honor the ownership of existing Spanish and Mexican land grants with its own Land Claims Act of 1851
Civil Practice Act of 1850 - ✔✔Originally, the CCP was the codification of the Practice Act of 1851, as
amended and revised. In turn, the Practice Act had been modeled after the New York Code of Civil
Procedure of 1850, which was largely drafted by the law reformer David Dudley Field II.
1855 Greaser Act - ✔✔The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in
California, to target those of Mexican descent, among others, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived
as violating its anti-vagrancy statute
Josefa Segovia - ✔✔also more commonly known as "Juanita", was a Mexican-American woman who was
executed by hanging in Downieville, California on July 5, 1851. ... She is known to be the first and only
woman to be hanged in California.
Lynching - ✔✔As well as being hanged, victims were sometimes burned alive and tortured, with body
parts removed and kept as souvenirs
Vigilantism - ✔✔"Vigilante justice" is often rationalized by the concept that proper legal forms of
criminal punishment are either nonexistent, insufficient, or inefficient. Vigilantes normally see the
government as ineffective in enforcing the law; such individuals often claim to justify their actions as a
fulfillment of the wishes of the community.
Francisco and benito lugo - ✔✔
Captain irving - ✔✔
Fransico Ramirez - ✔✔
