Vocabulary 1
What is another word for state or country?
Nation
This is the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
Habitat
What war ended slavery in the United States?
Civil War
What do you call a person forced to leave their country because of danger?
Refugee
What are two words to describe people who move from one place to another?
Migrants, Expatriates (Expats), Settlers
This word, which begins with the letter "r", means to move from one place to another.
Relocate
What is it called when people are separated based on their race?
Segregation
What term describes the difference between rich and poor people?
Income Inequality/Wealth Inequality
What is the word for the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people?
Discrimination
What do we call refusing to buy something as a protest?
A Boycott
What was the movement that fought for equal rights for Black Americans in the 1950s and 1960s called?
The Civil Rights Movement
What is a labor union?
An organization that protects workers’ rights
What is the difference between emmigration and immigration?
emigrate means to leave your home country (exit), while immigrate means to come into a new country to live (enter)
Colonization
What New Deal program, created in 1935, provides social safety nets for elderly and disabled Americans?
Social Security
Palestine and Vatican City
What do you call the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring
Prospect
This is the term for the area at the border of a country, or the border itself.
Frontier
What is the program called that helps low-income Americans get food?
Welfare/Food Stamps/SNAP
Which country was the first in the world to grant women the right to vote?
New Zealand