Vocabulary 1
Someone who is an Asian immigrant or a descendant of an Asian immigrant
What is Asian Americans?
A famous explorer from this group of people accidentally found the Americas in 1492.
Who are Latinos?
A contribution by Asian Americans created by turning unsafe sections of towns into culturally rich, safe places that people visit and enjoy today
What are Chinatowns?
Someone who is an immigrant of Europe or a descendant of a European immigrant
What is a European American?
The Spanish explorer who accidentally landed in the Caribbean when searching for a new route to Asia
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Someone who is an African immigrant or a descendant of an African immigrant or slave
What is African American?
This group of people was taken to America and sold as property
Who are African Americans?
This group helped turn the Southwest into a rich farming region
Who are the Latinos?
Made up of different groups of people
What is Diverse?
The first Europeans to colonize the Americas
Who are the Spanish?
A settlement that is ruled by another country
What is a colony?
These settlers built 13 colonies along the eastern shore of North America.
Who are European Americans?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is infrastructure?
Someone who is the descendant of the first people to live in North and South America
What is a Native American?
The fight over slavery eventually led to this event, which lasted from 1861-1865
What is the American Civil War?
A form of government in which people vote for their leaders
What is democracy?
Some people from this group came to the Americas after a certain discovery made in California
Who are Asian Americans?
What are Native Americans?
Someone who comes from another place to live in a country
What is an immigrant?
The land bridge over which the first Americans arrived
What is Beringia?
A way of life shared by a group of people.
What is culture?
Scientists believe that the first Americans arrived by crossing the land bridge which connected these two places
What are Asia and North America?
Three things that African Americans have contributed to America
Art (books, plays, poetry)
Fight for equal rights
Music (blues)
What are The Americas?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is western?