Immigration & Early America
What is the United States?
This country is described as “a society of immigrants.”
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Who were the British?
These people were the first to colonize on a large scale.
Who were Africans?
These immigrants provided slave labor in the southern colonies.
Who are Native Americans?
These people were America’s only non-immigrants
hoiw many people came as migrant
More than 50 million people came to this country as immigrants.
Who were the French?
These traders set up posts along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes.
What is English?
This language became dominant in American society.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This 1876 battle involved General Custer’s last stand.
Who were the Spanish explorers?
These explorers established outposts in Florida in the 1500s.
What is Jamestown?
This was the first successful English colony, founded in Virginia.
Who are WASPs?
This group is described as White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Who are Native Americans?
By the end of the 1800s, disease and warfare nearly wiped out this group.
What is 10 million?
Between 1840 and 1860, this many people came to America.
Who were the Chinese?
These immigrants came to California to work on the railroad.
What is political unrest?
Many immigrants left Europe to escape poor harvests, famine, and this.
Who were the Germans?
These immigrants settled in Pennsylvania, Sweden founded Delaware, and the Dutch settled in New York.