What is the third largest ethnic group ?
a) African-Americans
b) Latinos (Hispanics)
c) Chinese-Americans
d) Asian-Americans
What do Baton Rouge and Atlanta have in common?
a) They’re both in the South.
b) They’re both over a million people.
c) They’re both in the same state.
d) They’re both in the same time zone.
For which country did Christopher Columbus sail when he landed on islands off the coast of North America in 1492?
a) Spain
b) Italy
c) England
d) France
Which island is not a dependent area of the United States?
a) Puerto Rico
b) Greenland
c) Somoa
d) Guam
There are fifty states and one district in the United States. Which one of the following is the district?
a) New York City
b) Washington, DC
c) Los Angeles
d) Puerto Rico
2006-12-05 17:55:48 · 9 answers · asked by Rahul Agarwal 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
1. D. Asian Americans (the US census lumped Hispanic population into the "white" category in the last census)
* White American, 74.7%, or about 215.3 million (the definition of White includes European Americans, North African Americans, Middle Eastern Americans (e.g. Arab Americans), Central Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans who reported as White in the 2000 Census)
* Black or African American 12.1% or 34.9 million
* Asian American 4.3% or 12.5 million,
* American Indian 0.8% or 2.4 million
* Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.1% or 0.4 million
* Two or more races 1.9% or 5.6 million
* Other 6% or 17.3 million
2. A both in the South
3. Spain
4. Greenland
5. Washington,DC is the District of Columbia
2006-12-05 18:10:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. a) Latinos are the largest, followed by Whites, then African-Americans.
2. a) Baton Rouge is less than a million, it's in Louisiana and Atlanta is in GA, and it's in the central time zone while Atlanta is in the Eastern
3. a) Though Columbus was Italian, he sailed for Spain.
4. b) Greenland is not a territory of the U.S. (BTW, Samoa is misspelled)
5. b) The DC stands for District of Columbia.
This is really a travel forum. Shouldn't you be using Wikipedia to do your homework?
2006-12-06 02:12:00 · answer #2 · answered by disneykahuna 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1) could be a or b, I'm pretty sure there are more Latinos than there are African-Americans.
2) A is definitely true, not sure about b, definitely not c, and not sure about d.
3) think it's A
4) B, definitely
5) B (DC stands for District of Columbia.)
2006-12-06 02:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by Heidi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. probably b..
2. a
3. a-Spain (though he was an Italian explorer)
4. ahh, that would be Greenland
5. Washington, DC....DC stands for District of Columbia which obviously means it isn't a state.
2006-12-06 07:17:02 · answer #4 · answered by Led*Zep*Babe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Betcha if you spent as much time reading your history book and using Google you could have answered these in less time than it took to post them here.
2006-12-06 01:58:23 · answer #5 · answered by DJL2 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DDABB
Theres my best guess.
Is there a curve on this test?
2006-12-06 02:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh, no need for you to get your answers here. Go directly to www.google.com or www.yahoo.com for more accurate answers.
Good luck!
2006-12-06 02:00:09 · answer #7 · answered by Maganda 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do your own homework
2006-12-06 01:57:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
b, a, a, b, b
2006-12-06 01:58:48 · answer #9 · answered by cranura 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋