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33 Cards in this Set
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Immigrant |
a person who moves permanently from one country to live in another |
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Decendant |
the children and grandchildren of earlier generations |
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Who immigrated in the 1600's to North America |
English people |
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Which group of Europeans came to North American in the 1840's |
Irish and German |
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millions of immigrants arrived from southern & eastern Europe, Asia (Italians, Jews, Russians, Poles, Greeks, Japanese and Chinease) |
in the 1900 |
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Why did English people immigrate to the U.S. in the 1600's? |
To practice their religion freely, they had to immigrate to North America to escape persecution |
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Why did the Irish immigrate to North American in the 1840's ? |
There was a large crop failure in Ireland so immigrants came to North America to escape starvation in Ireland |
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Why did Russian Jews immigrate to North American in the 1880's? |
Jews were made to leave their country by a government that did not like their religion |
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A kind of jazz that was born in New Orleans nearly 100 years ago |
Dixieland |
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French-Canadian settlers came to New Orleans in the |
1700's |
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New Orleans is made up of many cultures, 3 examples of these cultures are |
-French Canadian -Caribbean -Native American that settled in Lousiana thousands of years ago |
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How do you think the location of New Orleans influenced it's diversity
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-New Orleans lies at the mouth of the Mississippi river -People from other countries immigrated to Mississippi through the Gulf of Mexico at the bottom of the river -European explorers & American Indians migrated south down the Mississippi river
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A commonly used term that describes " A rich mixture of people" |
Cultural Diversity |
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Where does the Mississippi river begin and end? |
-Begins in Minnestoa -ends at the Gulf of Mexico |
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Culture |
way of life |
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Pluralism |
a kind of culture where the people are made up of many different cultures |
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Creole is a mixture of _______ & _______ & ________ |
French , Spanish , & African descent |
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The U.S. is a _____________ culture |
pluralistic |
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An Encylopedia is arranged |
Alphabeticaly |
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The guide to the encylopedia is called the ______ and is found at the ________ |
Index Back |
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After 1886 the first sight of America for most European immigrants was the _______ |
Statue of Liberty |
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barrio |
a neighborhood where Mexican people lived |
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Some new immigrants (like Galarza) became sick with |
measles |
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Why was travel by ship to the U.S. across the Atlantic difficult ? |
-people were packed into wet and dark areas in the ship -Food was poor -Little water -people became sick easily |
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What are the reasons people left their home country to America? |
-practice religious freedom -war -famine (starvation, little food) |
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Why would both New Orleans and Sacremento be considered examples of pluralism? |
Because both cities have people from many different ethnicities |
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Jackie Robinson was the first |
African-American player in the major leauges |
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A custom that is special to a group of immigrants
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ethnic custom |
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Name some ethnic customs particular to your heritage? |
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Why did the author Shirly say " American are doubly blessed" when discussing ethnic customs? |
-immigrants can choose the best of both their original culture and America's diverse culture |
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What are some challenges of living in a pluralistic culture? |
-sometime's we don't understand all the different languages we hear spoken -sometimes immigrants feel they have to change to fit into American culture -some people suffer from prejudice |
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prejudice |
Disliking a person because of their race or religion |
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Name one famous American that faced prejudice. Why? |
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