HISTORY CONTENT: Vocabulary
- Cause and effect - noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
- Celebrations - to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities; to make known publicly; proclaim; to praise widely or to present to widespread and favorable public notice, as through newspapers or novels.
- Change - to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone; to change the course of history; to transform or convert (usually followed by into); to substitute another or others for; exchange for something else, usually of the same kind.
- Chronological thinking – arranged in the order of time; the science of arranging time in periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events.
- Circumstance - a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner, agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor.
- Colonial - of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies; of, concerning, or pertaining to colonialism; colonialistic; (often initial capital letter) pertaining to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America, or to their period.
- Community - a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage; a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.
- Constitute - to compose; form; to appoint to an office or function; make or create; to establish (laws, an institution, etc.); to give legal form to (an assembly, court, etc.).
- Contemporary - existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time; of about the same age or date; of the present time; modern.
- Continuity - the state or quality of being continuous; a continuous or connected whole.
- Cultural - of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- Democracy - principles, e.g., the people are sovereign; the power of the government is limited by law; people exercise their authority directly by voting for or against certain rules, laws or candidates as well as by voting in community or town meetings; decisions are based on majority rule, but minority rights are protected.(http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Early - in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.; early in the year; before the usual or appointed time; ahead of time; far back in time.
- Economic - pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities; of or relating to the science of economics; pertaining to an economy, or system of organization or operation, especially of the process of production; involving or pertaining to one's personal resources of money:
- Emergence - the act or process of emerging; an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant; the appearance of new properties or species in the course of development or evolution.
- Employment - an act or instance of employing someone or something; the state of being employed; employ; service; to begin or terminate employment; an occupation by which a person earns a living; work; business.
- Evidence - that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof; something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign; data presented to a court or jury in proof of the facts in issue and which may include the testimony of witnesses, records, documents, or objects.
- Exploration - an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination; the investigation of unknown regions.
- Factors - one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation.
- Frameworks - a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something; a frame or structure composed of parts fitted and joined together.
- Geographic - of or relating to geography; of or relating to the natural features, population, industries, etc., of a region or regions.
- Government - the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration; the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed.
- Historiography - the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively; the body of techniques, theories, and principles of historical research and presentation; methods of historical scholarship; the narrative presentation of history based on a critical examination, evaluation, and selection of material from primary and secondary sources and subject to scholarly criteria.
- Inhabitants - a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
- Issues - the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution; a point in question or a matter that is in dispute, as between contending parties in an action at law; a point, matter, or dispute, the decision of which is of special or public importance.
- Migration - the process or act of migrating; a migratory movement; a number or body of persons or animals migrating together.
- Origin - something from which anything arises or is derived; source; to follow a stream to its origin; rise or derivation from a particular source; the first stage of existence; beginning; ancestry; parentage; extraction.
- Past - gone by or elapsed in time; of, having existed in, or having occurred during a time previous to the present; bygone; gone by just before the present time; just passed.
- Perception - the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding; immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment.
- Political - of, relating to, or concerned with politics; of, relating to, or connected with a political party; exercising or seeking power in the governmental or public affairs of a state, municipality, etc.; of, relating to, or involving the state or its government:
- Present - being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current; at this time; at hand; immediate.
- Primary source - a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event
- Religious - of, relating to, or concerned with religion; imbued with or exhibiting religion; pious; devout; godly; scrupulously faithful; conscientious; pertaining to or connected with a monastic or religious order.
- Safety - the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss; the quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss; a contrivance or device to prevent injury or avert danger.
- Secondary source - documents written after an event has occurred, providing secondhand accounts of that event, person, or topic. Unlike primary sources, which provide first-hand accounts, secondary sources offer different perspectives, analysis, and conclusions of those accounts.
- Sequence - the following of one thing after another; succession; order of succession; a continuous or connected series; something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence.
- Settlement - the act or state of settling or the state of being settled; the act of making stable or putting on a permanent basis; a state of stability or permanence; an arrangement or adjustment, as of business affairs or a disagreement; an agreement signed after labor negotiations between union and management.
- Significance - importance; consequence; meaning; import; the quality of being significant or having a meaning.
- Social - pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations; seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; friendly; sociable; gregarious; of, pertaining to, connected with, or suited to polite or fashionable society.
- Society - an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes; a body of individuals living as members of a community; community; the body of human beings generally, associated or viewed as members of a community.
- Sources - anything or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin; the beginning or place of origin of a stream or river; a book, statement, person, etc., supplying information.
- Stewardship - the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc; the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving.
- Timeline - a linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred; a schedule; timetable.
All definitions found from www.dictionary.com unless stated otherwise.