| A | B |
|---|
| population | number of people who live in an area |
| ancestor | relative from the past |
| slavery | practice of making one person the property of another |
| immigrants | people who leave one country to live in another |
| ethnic group | group of people who have ancestors from the same country or area |
| heritage | the story of the past and the special way of doing things that a group of people share |
| urban | of a city |
| rural | countryside, farms, villages, and land with no people living on it |
| Kansas City | the word Kansas is from a Native American word meaning noisy people |
| Ste. Genevieve | the oldest European settlement in Missouri |
| New Madrid | Spanish settlers named after the capital of Spain |
| culture | way of life of a group of people |
| customs | practices and traditions, of the many different people of our state |
| folk art | art made by ordinary people |
| Eugene Field | Missouri male poet |
| Thomas Hart Benton | Missouri painter |
| George Caleb Bingham | Missouri painter |
| Mark Twain | Missouri writer |
| T.S. Eliot | Missouri male poet |
| Sara Teasdale | Missouri female poet |
| Marianne Moore | Missouri female poet |
| Langston Hughes | Missouri male poet |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | Missouri female writer |
| Scott Joplin | Missouri male musician |
| Virgil Thompson | Missouri male musician |
| Jefferson City | capital of Missouri |
