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*Make sure you have a sentence written for every vocabulary word on your paper.*

TEST FRIDAY

Study Guide / Social Studies

Life in the United States

Culture – way of life for a group of people

Diversity – variety

Unity – together as one

Values – things that guide the way we live

Immigrant – person who moves from one country to go and live in another country

Ancestor – relative that has lived before you

Ethnic group – group of people from the same culture

Census – study of a group of people

Population – number of people living in one place

Prejudice – judging someone without knowing them

Constitution – plan of government for our country

Democracy – people make the laws and run the government

Republic – people elect representatives to run the country

Citizen – person born in a country or chooses to become a member of a country by law

Civil rights – individual rights of a citizen by law

History – study of what happened in the past

Historian – people who study the past

Primary source – information from the time being studied

Oral history – spoken records

Secondary source – account of the past written by someone who was not there

Perspective – point of view