3rd Grade Social Studies Unit Four

3rd Grade Social Studies Unit Four - People & Culture

A person who comes to live in our country from somewhere else in the world in called an ________________ .
A _________ uses the actions of gods and goddesses to explain why something in nature is the way it is.
1. tradition
2. folk tale
3. myth
4. legend
Athena gave the people of Athens ______________ ; the gods judged this the best gift and named the city after her.
1. water
2. fire
3. an olive tree
4. metal
5. plains
Some parts of a legend may have been made up, and never really happened.
1. True
2. False
You are reading a book. The people, things, events, dates and places are all real and can be checked in other reference books. This book is:
1. fiction
2. a tall tale
3. based on facts
4. a myth
A medicine that keeps people from getting a disease is a _____________ .
Check two primary ways people honor their leaders or remember persons or events:
1. building monuments
2. watching television
3. memorials
4. playing sports
Check all the holidays that Americans would celebrate to honor their heritage:
1. Fourth of July
2. Bastille Day
3. Memorial Day
4. Thanksgiving
Stories and poems are two kinds of ____________
Mount Rushmore honors four American:
1. Senators
2. Governors
3. Generals
4. Presidents
Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for:
1. diphtheria
2. small pox
3. polio
4. malaria
Your family has a ______________ of baking lots of different kinds of cookies every Christmas season.
Between 1840 and 1850 many people came to America from Ireland to escape the:
1. draft
2. potato famine
3. lack of oil
4. bad water
In the 1800's most immigrants came to America:
1. by train
2. by sailing ships
3. by airplane
4. by horseback
_____________ is the words or signs people use to communicate.
Immigrants tend to settle in larger cities primarily to:
1. have fun
2. find jobs
3. avoid being lonely
4. avoid too much sun
After native Americans, the first group of immigrants to arrive in America in the 1600's came from:
1. Mexico
2. Germany
3. China
4. England
Rosa Parks is admired because she:
1. was the first woman Senator.
2. fought for the basic rights of all Americans as the First Lady.
3. refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
4. was a representative to the United Nations.
July Fourth is a national holiday and honors:
1. Americans who have died in wars.
2. the landing of the Pilgrims.
3. the declaration of our independence from England.
4. the end of World War II.
Today, the largest groups of immigrants come from:
1. European countries
2. African countries
3. Mexico, Central America and Asian countries
4. Canada