Chapter 1 Life in the United States

What is a culture?

• The customs, beliefs, and language of a people

• The beliefs and ideals that guide the way people live

• Being as one or being in agreement

• The official study of people of a country

What is an immigrant?

• A person who is born in a country or who chooses to become a member of that country by law.

• A relative who lived before someone

• A person who leaves one country to go and live in another land.

• A person who studies the past.

In recent years most immigrants to the United States have come from Asia and

• Africa

• Australia

• Latin America

• Europe

People who share the same customs and language

• Citizens

• Ethnic group

• Historians

• Ancestors

Relatives who lived before you are called

• ethnic groups

• founders

• immigrants

• ancestors

A form of government in which people elect representatives to run their country

• socialism

• republic

• communism

• Marxism

Beliefs or ideals that guide how people live.

• Customs

• Perspective

• Values

• Prejudice

A census is an official study of

• a country's people

• the concept of government

• ethnic traditions

• a county's history

What is America's plan of Government?

• The Preamble

• The Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Emancipation Proclamation

What did the Constitution set up?

• The major ethnic groups

• The major religious groups in the United States

• The official study of people of a country

• The federal government