Semantics is the study of word meanings.
It is one part of linguistics, other being syntax: the study of sentence structure, phonology and phonetics: the study of sounds, morphology: the study of word structures and pragmatics: the study of actual use of language.
The first one is A as the Anasazi are the only native american group in the answers, number 2 is B, number 3 is the Hopi, number 4 is the bow and arrow and number five is the discovery of gold in the 1840's.
the Chinese workers were content/happy performing the jobs few white men wanted
Explanation:
- As the author of the text says "As long as Chinese were content with jobs few white men wanted, then the whites ignored them. But as soon as Chinese landed better jobs or ventured into more attractive industries then trouble brewed, especially during hard economic times. Whites feared employers would use the Chinese to drive down wages and reduce whites to a status no higher than that of the Chinese workers themselves."
- Otherwise, whites were sometimes actually doing some awful things to Chinese workers.