The First Americans
Native American people can be described as this, with many different tribes and languages.
What is diverse?
This group of people built towns, churches, and forts across the southwestern United States.
Who are Latinos?
This is the term used to describe Americans whose ancestors came from countries like China, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and India.
Who are Asian Americans?
This is the form of government in which people vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy?
This is a way of life shared by a group of people.
We call the descedants of the FIRST people to settle in the Americas this.
What are Native Americans?
A person whose ancestors came from Cuba are called this.
What is Latino/Latina/Latinx?
Gospel and Jazz music are two examples of contributions to the culture of the United States of America makde by this group of people.
Who are African Americans?
This difficult war won our freedom from Great Britain, and made us "The United States of America."
What is the American Revolution?
What is an immigrant?
What are:
1. a land bridge connecting Asia to Alaska during the Ice Age?
2. using boats and sailing to the Pacific Northwest Coast of Alaska and Canada?
Immigrants from this continent eventually broke away from the country of Great Britain and made their own country, "The United States of America."
What is Europe?
The first Chinese immigrants came to the United States for this "pull factor."
What is to find gold?
Colonists in North America wanted the right to govern themselves. They were tired of being controlled by this country.
This is a settlement that is ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
The theory about the descendants of the first Native Americans coming to the Americas on a land bridge following herds of animals they hunted during an ice age is supposed to have happened this many years ago.
What is about 11,500 years ago?
This explorer sailed for Spain in 1492 and began colonies for Spain in the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
African people were forced out of their home countries in Africa and sold into this horrible working system.
This is the term used to describe a reason why someone might leave their home country. These are problems that drive people AWAY from their homes (examples include war, unfair laws, famine, religious persecution, poor economy/no jobs).
What are push factors?
This is the word that means " to overthrow a government."
What is revolution?
The theory about earliest people to come to the Americas arriving by boat suggests that people were actually coming here as long ago as this time.
What is 15,000 years ago?
What is an ancestor?
Many Asian immigrants came to the United States between these years in search of work.
What is 1850-1882?
This is the term used to describe reasons why people might want to leave their home country to move to a new country. They are things that a new place offers to draw people in (examples include better jobs, religious freedom, to live in a democracy).
What are pull factors?
A social studies passage that describes how colonists in Eastern North America wanted to break away from England and King George III and start their own country would most likely be written by this type of social scientist.
What is a historian?