Vocabulary
An acceptance of many cultures instead of just one.
What is Multiculturalism?
A person who uses goods or services.
What is Consumer?
What are some of the rights guaranteed to U.S citizens by the constitution?
What is Protection of individual freedom?
Which two languages are the official languages of Canada?
What is French and English?
Why did the Native Americans lose their land?
What is Europeans from Great Britain and France came to America and took their land?
A person who flees a country because of war, disaster, or persecution.
An economy that allows business owners to compete in the market with little government interference.
What is Free Enterprise?
What are some of the rights and responsibilities of a U.S citizen?
What is
-Help decide who will run their government
-Pay taxes
-Vote
-Serve on Juries
-Obey laws
What are some of the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizens?
What is
-Obey laws
-Freedom of religion, speech, and assembly
-Equal protection for all under Canadian law
-Option of voting and participating in political system
How did the first people reach North America?
What is They walked the Bering Straight 12,000 years ago when oceans were 300 ft lower, making a strip of land?
A group of Native Americans who developed a complex civilization in the U.S. Southwest.
What is Anasazi?
Any are of economic activity
What is Industry?
List the three branches of government, and their roles.
What is
Legislative Branch- Congress creates bills, ideas for new laws
Executive Branch- The president approves or veto’s bills, decides if a bill becomes a law.
Judicial Branch- The Supreme Court reviews laws to make sure they are fair and follow the constitution
Describe the relationship between the British and Canada in the 1700s and 1800s.
What is hostile?
What is equal opportunity
What is today, it is illegal for the government or private institutions to discriminate because of race, gender, religion, age, or disability?
A person who comes to a country to take up residence.
What is Immigrant?
The money that remains after the costs of producing a product are paid.
What is Profit?
What was the reason for the creation of the Constitution?
What is to create rights and protection for American citizens?
The name of the war that was fought for control of North America between 1754 and 1763.
What is Great Britain and France fought the French and Indian War for control of North America between 1754 and 1763.
The political process refers to
What is those legal activities through which citizens can change public policy?
A person who wants to separate from a body to which he or she belongs, such as a church or nation.
What is Separatist?
The spreading of an idea, product or technology around the world.
What is Globalization?
Why is the United States referred to as a “melting pot”?
What is The term “melting pot” is used as a metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities that make up the United States of America.
The Canadians of the First Nations descended from
What is Asia?
Examples of 'Natural Wealth"
What is coal, animals, wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, rivers, etc.