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| cultures | is the entire way of life of a people, their customs,beliefs and lanquage |
| diversity | variety;many different cutltures |
| unity | being as one or being in agreement |
| values | beliefs or ideals that guide the way people live |
| immigrant | a person who leaves one country to go and live in another land |
| ancestors | the relatives who lived before you |
| ethnic group | people who share the sme customs, the same language, and often the same history |
| The larges number of immigrants have come from where | Asia and Latin America |
| census | an official study of the people of a country |
| population | the number of people living in a place |
| prejudice | a negative opinion formed without proof |
| constitution | a plan of government for a country |
| democracy | the people make the laws and run the government |
| republic | the people elect representatives to run the country |
| federal | national |
| citizen | a person who is born in a country or who chooses to become a member of that country by law |
| civil rights | are the individual rights of a citizen under the law |
| decisions | choices |
| alternative | another way of doing something |
| evaluate | to determine the value of meaning of something |
| history | the study or record of what happened in the past |
| historians | people who study the past |
| primary sources | information that comes from the time being studied |
| oral history | spoken records |
| secondary sources | an account of the past written by someone who was not an eyewittness to those events |
| perspective | point of view |
