The First Americans
Spanish and Europeans
Africans and Asians Arrive
Culture
Vocab
100

What are huge sheets of ice?

Glaciers

100
What is a settlement that it ruled by another country?

Colony

100

Asian Americans came from many different _____?

Countries

100
What are the problems that drive people away from their homes? 

Push factors

100

What is a way of life that is shared by a group of people?

Culture

200
Scientists believe that herds of animals wandered onto the what?

Land bridge

200

How many colonies did the English build?

13

200

What is the system where people own and sell other people?

Slavery

200

The United States is a ______ country made up of many different groups of people?

Diverse

200
Someone who comes from another place to live in a country is called an ______. 

Immigrant

300

Scientists believe the first Americans came from where?

Asia

300

People who were born in Latin America are often called?

Latinos

300
Why did people from China come to the United States?

To find gold.

300

What are factors that a new place offers to draw people in?

Pull factors

300

What is the form of government in which people vote for their leaders?

Democracy
400

Native Americans are ________ of the first Americans.

Descendants
400

What is the name of the explorer who set sail across the Atlantic Ocean? Where did he believe he was going?

Christopher Columbus & Asia

400

What was the war that ended slavery? When did it end?

Civil War and 1865

400

Everyone in the United States contributes to its diverse _______.

Culture
400

The landmasses and islands of North America and South America are known as ________?

The Americas