Understanding Society and History

What is the definition of society?

• standards of behavior concerning what is and is not acceptable to do

• self-governing and independent

• community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations.

What does it mean to coerce?

• to obtain something using force or threats

• to inspire

• to motivate

What is Manifest Destiny?

• a belief in the 1800s that the expansion of the United States westward to the Pacific Ocean was both justified and destined by God

• a community that grows rapidly and experiences economic growth

• self-governing and independent

What does it mean to romanticize something?

• to describe something in an idealized or unrealistic way; to make something seem better than it really is

• to motivate

• to inspire

What is the significance of the Dred Scott case?

• A enslaved man who sued for his freedom when he was taken to a free state and then back to a slave state; the case was heard by the Supreme Court

• a belief in the 1800s that the expansion of the United States westward to the Pacific Ocean was both justified and destined by God

• people who came to California from the eastern U.S. and around the globe when gold was discovered there

What does marginalized mean?

• treated as insignificant or pushed to the edge of importance

• self-governing and independent

• to obtain something using force or threats

What is a Boomtown?

• a community that grows rapidly and experiences economic growth

• people who came to California from the eastern U.S. and around the globe when gold was discovered there

• a belief in the 1800s that the expansion of the United States westward to the Pacific Ocean was both justified and destined by God

What does cession mean?

• formally giving up property, territory, or rights

• to obtain something using force or threats

• self-governing and independent

What is cholera?

• a severe illness that causes infection of the intestines and which results in extreme diarrhea

• a community that grows rapidly and experiences economic growth

• to motivate

forty-niners

• A enslaved man who sued for his

  freedom when he was taken to a

  free state and then back to a slave

  state; the case was heard by the

  Supreme Court

• a belief in the 1800s that the

  expansion of the United States

  westward to the Pacific Ocean

  was both justified and destined

  by God

• people who came to California from the

  eastern U.S. and around the globe when

  gold was discovered there