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Vocabulary
American Indians
Spanish & Asian Americans
European Americans
African Americans
100
The land masses and islands of North America and South America.
What are the Americas
100
Scientists believe that the first Americans arrived by walking across this.
What is a land bridge
100
Cowboys came to the United States from here.
What is Mexico
100
What coast did the English begin to colonize in the 1600s?
What is the eastern shore
100
African Americans first came to this country as these.
What are slaves
200
made up of many groups of people
What is diverse
200
The Native American culture has great respect for this.
What is nature
200
Most people who were born in Latin America or whose ancestors were born there are called this
What are Latinos
200
When the 13 English colonies broke away from England in 1776, they formed what nation?
What is the United States of America
200
The fight over slavery led to this war.
What is the Civil War
300
A way of life shared by a group of people.
What are cultures
300
Name two foods that the American Indians grew.
What are corn and squash
300
Mexico, all the countries to its south, and the many islands in the Gulf of Mexico are called this
What is Latin America
300
What attracted the European settlers to the new colonies?
What is freedom of religion, wealth, work
300
The use of skin color, cultural background, or religion to form an unfair opinion about other people
What is prejudice
400
A settlement that is ruled by another country.
What is a colony
400
A major river that the American Indians named
What is the Mississippi River
400
After the discovery of this, many Chinese immigrants traveled to the United States.
What is gold
400
European Americans contributed to the creation of the American government. They brought with them ideas of democracy. What is democracy?
What is a form of government in which people vote for their leaders
400
Two types of music African Americans contributed to American life.
What are jazz and blues
500
Someone who comes from another place to live in a country.
What is an immigrant
500
Scientists believe that people arrived on our continent this many years ago.
What is 12,500 years
500
Name two countries that Asian immigrants traveled from.
What is Japan, Philippines, Korea
500
Colonists were tired of being what to do by the Kind of England. What war broke out?
What is the American Revolution
500
When did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865