Life in the US Flashcards
Way of life of a group of people that includes their customs, beliefs, and language.
Culture
Differences in culture, variety
Diversity
Being in agreement
Unity
The beliefs or ideals that guide the way people live
Values
A person who leaves one country to go and live in another land
Immigrant
Relatives that lived before you
Ancestors
Groups of people who share the same customs and language.
Ethnic
In recent years the largest number of immigrants have come from where?
Asia and Latin America
People whose ancestors are from Spanish speaking countries in the Western Hemishpere
Hispanics
Number of people living in a place
Population
A count of the people taken every ten years
Census
Negative opinion formed without truth
Prejudice
A written plan of government for a country
Constitution
Form of government where people who make laws and run the government
Democracy
Form of government where people elect representatives to the country
Republic
Means national government
Federal
Capital of the USA
Washington, DC
Person born in a country or one who chooses to become a member of that country by law
Citizen
The Constitution protects basic rights, such as freedom of _____, ______, and to earn a ______ as one chooses.
Speech, Religion, Living
Individual Rights of a citizen under the law
Civil Rights
Citizenship includes both _______ and _______.
Rights and Responsibilities
Rights include ______ and ______the law.
Voting, Obeying
Responsibilities include _______ the rights of others.
respecting
What are the three separate levels of Government
Federal, State, and Local
What level of government deals with issues that affect the country, can declare war or make peace.
Federal
What level of governement deals with issues with all or part of a state, manages public schools, holds elections
State
What level of governement deals with city, county, township, boroughs; maintains roads and law and order.
Local
A study or record of what happened in the past
History
People who study history
Historians
Information from the time being studies, such as written documents, eyewitness accounts, film or photographs from the time an event happened.
Primary source
History or spoken records is this type of source
Oral
An account of the past written by someone who was not there at the time of the event.
Secondary Source
Chief participants of history
People
Each of ____today is a part of history
Us
We expect the government to _____ our lives and property, ______ laws, ______ highways, and ______ schools.
protect, enforce, build, provide
