1. Chapter 1 Quick-write
Look in our Cornell Notes and hopefully you mentioned both a “melting pot” and “mixed salad/tossed salad bowl”. After analyzing both these terms which one would you most think best represents the country in which we live in?

2. Why are we living longer?
Chapter 1 Portraits of Americans
Where do we live?
Where do we work?
Why are we living longer?
Why should we accept others?

3. Demographics
Demography~ is the study of the size, growth, and distribution of human populations
~ Why do demographics change?
~ Where are Americans moving today?
Southeast and West
Cheaper land, real estate, and more jobs
Fastest Growing Cities

4. Rust Belt
Area of the United States where a lot of the economy is based upon heavy industry and manufacturing.

5. Sun Belt Warm Weather states such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona
North Carolina is considered part of the Sun Belt
Why are more and more Americans moving to the sun belt?
Where do most Americans live? (Near cities or in the country)

6. Workforce Service Jobs Dentist Plummer Handyman
Workforce
Service Jobs
Dentist
Plummer
Handyman
A job in which a person makes a living by providing a service for others.
Blue Collar Workers
Coal Miners
Construction workers
Fast food employee
Manual labor and earns an hourly wage.
White Collar Workers
Businessman
Stock brokers
Salesman
To a salaried professional or a person

7. A large rise in the number of births between 1946-1964
Baby Boom
A large rise in the number of births between
Happens after WWII. Why??
Why has our population
declined?
Baby Calculator

8. Diversity: Salad Bowl v.
Diversity—Differences
What makes you different or special?
How are we like a salad bowl?

9. Diversity: Melting Pot
How are we like a melting pot?
How is this statement incorrect?

11. Immigrations
Immigrants- people who move from one country to make their homes in another.

12. Where are we from and why did we come?
Why did Europeans come to America ?
Why did African Americans come to America?
Why did Asian American come to America?

13. EX -Klu Klux Klan demonstrates Racism
Racism and Discrimination
Racism
Discrimination
Def- The belief that members of one’s own race are superior to those of others
EX -Klu Klux Klan demonstrates Racism
Def the unfair treatment of a group of people compared with another
EX– white men allowed to vote while black men were not

14. Exclusion Laws
Exclusion Laws– Laws that prohibited any further immigration from China and Japan
Census
Census is a population survey that is taken every ten years
Lets us understand the demographics of the United States

15. 3 Basic American Values
Equality– condition of permitting everyone the same rights and opportunities
2) Freedom—power or ability to make choices
3) Justice– fairness equal treatment

16. Choice of style, music, hair
Equality
Race, sex, religion, background, and opinions should not deny anyone a fair chance to succeed in life.
Freedom
Choice of style, music, hair
Justice
Fair treatment in trials
and in pay.