1.1 Being an American Quiz

Ninety-eight percent of people who live in the United States come from ancestors who once lived in ________.

• England
• Asia
• The thirteen colonies
• another country

The French came to North America beginning in the 1600s and mostly settled in what is now ___________.

• Florida
• Texas
• Canada
• California

Native Americans, who were the first settlers in what is now the United States, spoke hundreds of different languages.

• True
• False

In the 1600s, the thirteen original colonies of the United States were created mostly by _______________.

• French Immigrants
• English Immigrants
• Native Americans
• Spanish Immigrants

The ___________ started the first farms and a town in what is now New York.

• Germans
• Spanish
• Irish
• Dutch

By 1807, approximately 500,000 Africans had been brought to the United States unwillingly and forced into slavery.

• True
• False

The discovery of gold in 1848 drew many immigrants to ____________.

• California
• Florida
• Delaware
• New York

Popular sovereignty is the idea that the government receives its power from the people.

• True
• False

___________ are the key practices, relationships, and organizations in a society.

• Values
• Instituions
• Ethnic Groups
• Immigrants

White-collar workers are employed in factories.

• True
• False