1. Ideologies: The USA Key Concepts: Ideology Participation Rights and Responsibilities Equality

2. What do you already know about the USA?  In your jotters draw a spider diagram to illustrate what you know about the USA.  After 10 minutes compare it with the person next to you What do I know about the USA?

3. Faces of the USA!

4. The USA’s people  The graph shows the make up of the USA’s population in 2003.  A separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)  Write a paragraph describing the population of the USA.

5. Negroes for Sale A cargo of very fine stout men and women, in good order and fit for immediate service, just imported from the Windward Coast of Africa, in the ship Two Brothers. Conditions are one half cash or produce, the other half payable the first of January next, giving bond and security if required. The sale to be opened at 10 o’clock each day, in Mr. Bordeaux’s yard, at No. 48, on the bay. May 19, 1784 JOHN MITCHELL

6. The American people originally came from many countries all over the world. But WHY ? The American Dream No land No food Opportunities Religious freedom Freedom No jobs Education No freedom of religion Plenty of land No political freedom No money Political freedom New life Wealth War Put these reasons into two lists one for PUSH factors (reasons to leave their home country) and one for PULL factors (reasons to go to the recipient country)

7. Textbook Now collect a copy of USA and read pages 4 and 5. Copy the title The USA and the American People and what you will learn. Now answer activities 2-7.