The Immigrant Contribution Vocabulary

People who are the offspring of an ancestor

• Lineage

• Family

• Descendants

• Ancestor

Group of people that differs in some way from the larger population

• Minority

• Majority

• Least

• Apart

Process of becoming a citizen

• Family

• Immigration

• Minority

• Naturalization

Descendants of a particular individual or ethnic group; family or lineage

• Assimilation

• Stock

• Family

• descendants

Groups of people inside a political party,club, government working against another group

• Stock

• Assistance

• Naturalized

• Factions

Process of adapting to the culture of an adopted country

• Addictive

• Acclamation

• Assistant

• Assimilation

Some historians believe that Native Americans were originally of Asian _____________.

• Family

• Assistance

• Stock

• descendants

The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights were intended to protect the rights of all American citizens, including those from a ____________ background.

• group

• Minority

• Stock

• Factions

Many third-generation Americans are ________________ of several different ethnic groups.

• Group

• Naturalizations

• Assimilation

• Descendants

This population is too hopelessly split into _____________ that work against each other’s progress

• Faction

• Family

• Stock

• Ancestors