The USA STAGE 3

Before Reading CHAPTERS 7 AND 8

1
WHILE READING

They were checked for disease and other problems.

ACTIVITIES ANSWERS
2 Chinese immigrants.
ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING
3 Spanish.
Encourage students to discuss their ideas and make
4 In the South.
guesses.
5 A number of places where slaves could find help.
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6 They had to go to different schools.
4 e – Mount Rushmore 5 b – New York
7 Because he fought for the civil rights of black
6 a – San Francisco
people.
ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING 8 It destroyed New Orleans.
Open answers.
CHAPTERS 9, 10 AND 11 WHILE READING

1 Congress
While Reading 2 eight
3 South
CHAPTERS 1, 2 AND 3 WHILE READING 4 father and son
1 T 5 60
2 T 6 11 September
3 F Pocahontas married John Rolfe. 7 drive
4 F The Pilgrim Fathers did not have slaves. 8 baseball
5 T 9 wine
6 F Men in Boston threw boxes of tea into the sea 10 soul
because they didn’t want to pay tax on it.
CHAPTER 12 WHILE READING
7 F The chief of the American army was George
Washington. 1c 2e 3b 4a 5d
8 T CHAPTERS 13 AND 14 WHILE READING
9 F The last state to join the USA was Hawaii. 1 Cambridge
CHAPTER 4 WHILE READING
2 Boston
1 Why . . .? Because people wanted to keep slaves to 3 New York
work in the cotton fields. 4 Washington DC
2 Who . . .? Robert E. Lee. 5 Chicago
3 Which . . .? Abraham Lincoln. 6 Las Vegas
4 What . . .? A very important battle was won by the 7 Death Valley
soldiers of the North. 8 Alcatraz
5 Why . . .? Because he hated Lincoln and was angry 9 Hollywood
about the war. 10 Disneyland
6 Which . . .? Little Women. CHAPTERS 15 AND 16 WHILE READING

CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 WHILE READING

1 Ansel Adams took photographs of the national
1 f Farmers who came to live in the West grew food parks of the USA.
on their new farms. 2 Oregon and Washington have cool, wet weather.
2 a When letters were carried by the Pony Express, 3 Old Faithful is in Yellowstone Park.
they took ten days to cross the country.  4HE'RAND#ANYONISMETRESdeep/446
3 d Many Native Americans either died of disease or kilometres long.
were killed in battle. 5 Mount Rushmore is in Dakota.
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4 b Without the buffalo Native Americans could not  4HE'REAT,AKESLIEBETWEENTHE53!ANDCanada.

follow their usual way of life. 7 Mark Twain wrote about life on the Mississippi
5 e After the Battle of Wounded Knee Native River.
Americans had to live in ‘reservations’. 8 Most people visit Alaska in the summer.
6 c The Hopi and the Zuni make beautiful jewellery. 9 Texas is rich because of its oil.
10 Hawaii is famous for its beaches.

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ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING

1 Pocahontas 2 Johnny Cash 3 Martin Luther King

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ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING

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N J O M L A W E N T I
T U R K E Y O M F S M
O D N T C S H U N T M
B ' H A T P E S P A I
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C E B C Y C T U H E R
C O L O N Y E M P E A
O I O H P L A E F O N
R L T O H E R I ' H T
P E S L A V E O T A X
P S E P A R A T E L E

1 The sentence is: ‘. . .government of the people, by

the people, for the people.’
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Pennsylvania.
3 A very important battle had been won by the
soldiers of the North.
ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING

Open answers.
ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING

Encourage students to discuss their ideas before

they begin.
Open answers.
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