Social Studies: Chapter 3

Descendants of the first people to settle in the Americas are

• American Indians

• Asian Americans

• European Americans

• African Americans

Which people brought to the United States the skills to be a cowboy or a miner?

• American Indians

• Asian Americans

• African Americans

• Latinos

Which people are descendants of people who were brought to the Americas against their will?

• American Indians

• Asian Americans

• European Americans

• African Americans

Americans whose ancestors came from China, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and India are known as

• American Indians

• Asian Americans

• African Americans

• Latinos

Which of these items did African Americans contribute to our culture?

• baseball and basketball

• gospel music and jazz

• potatoes and chocolate

• guitars and pianos

The first Europeans to settle Manhattan Island were

• Dutch

• English

• French

• Spanish

The name of Manhattan comes from Mana-hatta, which means

• crowded streets

• many furs

• half moon

• hilly island

This word means "made up of different groups of people".

• colony

• culture

• immigrant

• diverse

This is "a way of life shared by a group of people"

• diverse

• immigrant

• culture

• tenement

"Someone who comes from another place to live in a country" is the definition of what word?

• democracy

• the Americas

• immigrant

• diverse