Vocabulary
Civil Disobedience
Unit Background
Nature
Self-Reliance
100
an extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property
What is conflagration ?
100
1846 to 1848
What year did the Mexican War take place in ?
100
California
Where was Gretel Ehrlich born ?
100
setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece
What is nature ?
100
relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
What is a man ?
200
harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant
What is noxious ?
200
"That government is best which governs least"
What motto did Thoreau accept ?
200
by living in Wyoming
How was Gretel Ehrlich influenced ?
200
the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable
What is the greatest delight which the fields and woods minister ?
200
a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater
What is society ?
300
balance
What is equilibrium ?
300
“That government is best which governs not at all"
What did Thoreau believe was the best government ?
300
carefree
What is blithe ?
300
disorder of matter and space
What is chaos ?
400
encourage or assist
What is abet ?
400
an arm of the standing government
What is standing army ?
400
1820
When did Missouri Compromise ban slavery ?
400
existing naturally
What is connate ?
400
the right too vote
What is suffrage ?
500
take something apart
What is disassemble ?
500
how successfully men can be imposed on
What does government show ?
500
16 states
in 1800, the United States consisted of how man states ?
500
less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population
What is the sky ?
500
clergy
What is divines ?