Ideologies: The USA

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Ideologies The USA

• Key Concepts
• Ideology
• Participation
• Rights and Responsibilities
• Equality

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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

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Faces of the USA!
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The USAs people

• The graph shows the make up of the USAs
  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.

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• 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 oclock each day, in
  Mr. Bordeauxs yard, at No. 48, on the bay.
• May 19, 1784 JOHN MITCHELL

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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)

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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.