Social Studies Lab

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Ancestry

Critical Analysis

  1. What is the ancestry with the largest population in your county?

  2. What is the ancestry with the largest population in your state?

  3. What is the ancestry with the largest population in your nation?

  4. Why are most African American counties in the South?

  5. There are multiple single counties in the North and Midwest that are majority African-American ancestry. Why is that?

  6. What does this map say about the cultural diversity of the U.S.?

  7. Why is that?

  8. What is one consequence of that?

  9. What does this map say about how the United States was colonized?

  10. What would this entire map have looked like in 1491?