The United States of America.
We the People
Task: choose the necessary.
1. The U.S. has often been called "a nation of immigrants". Many different cultural traditions, ethnic sympathies, national origins, racial groups, and religious affiliations make up "we the people".
The first people on the American continent came from ... . They came to Alaska at various times when the sea level dropped. The first migration might have been as early as 40,000 years ago.
a) Africa; b) Asia; c) Europe; d) Australia.
2. The story of the westward growth of the United States was also the story of the destruction of the Native Americans, or ... .
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a) Indians; b) Polynesians; c) Africans; d) Australians.
3. ... states—especially California, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico—have the largest Indian population.
a) Northern; b) Western; c) Southern; d) Eastern.
4. Beginning in the 1600s, the British settled ... part of North America.
a) the eastern; b) the western; c) the northern; d) the southern.
5. By the time of the American Revolution (1776), the culture of American colonists had been thoroughly ... .
a) British; b) French; c) Indian; d) Dutch.
6. From 1620 to 1820 by far the largest group of people to come to the United States came against their will. Those people were ... .
a) Polynesians; b) West Africans; c) Afghans; d) Australians.
7. Beginning in the 1820s, the number of immigrants coming to the United States began to increase rapidly. Faced with problems in ...—poverty, war, discrimination—immigrants hoped for, and often found, better opportunities in the United States.
a) Europe; b) Russia; c) Africa; d) Australia.
8. Although immigration from northwestern Europe continued, from the 1870s to the 1930s even more people came from the countries of southern and eastern Europe. In the 1920s discrimination and prejudice in the U.S. led to laws ... immigration. Immigration ... until 1960s, when these laws were changed.
a) permitting; accelerated; b) forbidding; stopped;
c) limiting; slowed down; d) accelerating; increased.
9. In the nineteenth century, laws limited ... immigration. Also ... in the U.S., who had come to California, met with widespread discrimination.
a) Iranian; Iranians; b) Indian; Indians; c) Korean; Koreans; d) Asian; Asians.
10. Since the mid-1960s, with changes in immigration laws ... have been a major immigrant group. In the 1980s, for example, almost half of all immigrants were ... .
a) Philippians; Philippine; b) Cambodians; Cambodian; c) Asians; Asian; d) Thailandians; Thailandian.
11. ... are one of the fastest growing groups in the U.S. population. Within 25 years, they will be the largest minority.
a) Puerto Ricans; b) Hispanics; c) Indonesians; d) Iranians.
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