AP Us History Chapter 12
Copyright ? Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 12 People and Communities in the North and West, 1830?1860 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After you have studied Chapter 12 in your textbook and worked through this study guide chapter, you should be able to: 1. Discuss the characteristics of rural life in American society from 1830 to 1860. 2. Examine the interest in and the emergence of utopian communities in American society during the early nineteenth century, and discuss the ideas associated with these communities. 3. Explain the emergence of California as the population center on the West Coast in the late 1840s and early 1850s, discuss the experiences of ?the forty-niners,? and explain the integration of California into the national market economy.