Immigration
Rights of Citizens
Forms of Gov't
Makeup of America
100
This is a person with certain rights and duties under a government.
What is a citizen?
100
The right to free speech is guaranteed by this.
What is the First Amendment?
100
This is a system in which power is shared by all the people.
What is democracy?
100
This is the new metaphor for the makeup of the US. It is representative of keeping our unique identities while making up part of a larger image.
What is a mosaic?
200
This is the process by which a person becomes a citizen.
What is naturalization?
200
Gov't makes and enforces laws that protect rights and ensure that people's lives can proceed in a peaceful, orderly way in order to do this.
What is keeping the peace?
200
This is a form of government in which all or most of the power is in the hands of one individual.
What is a monarchy?
200
This is the old metaphor for the makeup of the US. It represents the unique mix of cultures and backgrounds.
What is a melting pot?
300
A citizen of one country, but lives in another.
What is an alien?
300
Gov't provides for our defense by maintaining armed forces and weapons in order to do this.
What is protecting the country?
300
This is a form of government that is controlled by one person.
What is a dictatorship?
300
This is one of the shifts in the American population in recent history. (Geography)
Americans are moving south to states like Florida, Texas and California.
400
These are people who are chosen to speak and act for their fellow citizens in government.
What are representatives?
400
Gov't provides services we need but cannot expect private businesses to provide in order to give us these.
What are necessary services?
400
In our democracy, these are added to the Constitution in order to grant new rights or to change existing laws.
What is an amendment?
400
This is the other shift in the American population in recent history. (Demographics)
Why are Americans, on average, getting older?
500
These are the two regions where the majority of immigrants to the United States come from (1991-2000).
What is Latin America (including Mexico) and Asia?
500
The right to bear arms is guaranteed by this.
What is the Second Amendment?
500
This is the leader of a democracy like the United States of America.
What is a president?
500
This is historically, where most early Americans came from and where most immigrants came from until recently.
What is Western Europe?
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