Immigration
This term describes a person who moves permanently to another country.
What is an immigrant?
This is the legal process through which a person becomes a U.S. citizen.
What is naturalization?
This is the study of the rights and duties of citizens.
What is civics?
Moving from a farming community to a city for factory work is an example of this development.
What is urbanization?
In this system, citizens elect officials to make government decisions on their behalf.
What is representative democracy?
Ancestors of Indigenous peoples traveled from Asia to North America using this land connection.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
A child born in Puerto Rico has citizenship from birth or must complete naturalization—which one?
What is citizenship from birth?
Following traffic laws is this type of civic obligation because it is legally required.
What is a duty?
This movement involved millions of Black Americans leaving the South for northern, midwestern, and western communities.
What is the Great Migration?
This principle means that government gets its authority from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This European group established settlements in Florida and the American Southwest during the 1500s.
Who were the Spanish?
Under the general adult naturalization pathway, applicants must reach this age and usually have this many years as lawful permanent residents.
What are age 18 and five years?
Voting and staying informed are examples of this type of civic action that citizens should do voluntarily.
What is a responsibility?
Dred Scott argued that he should be free because he had lived in places where this was prohibited.
What is slavery?
Citizens vote themselves on a proposed law instead of having elected lawmakers decide it. This is an example of this form of democracy.
What is direct democracy?
Name the three European groups that established colonies in North America during the 1600s.
Who were the English, French, and Dutch?
Besides age and lawful permanent residence, name the other three naturalization requirements studied in class.
What are basic English reading, writing, and speaking skills; good moral character; and knowledge of U.S. civics?
You disagree with a neighbor’s religion but respect their right to practice it. You are demonstrating this quality.
What is tolerance?
In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Court denied Scott’s claim to citizenship and made this ruling.
What is Black people, enslaved or free, were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal court
This type of government is controlled by a small group of powerful people.
What is an oligarchy?
Many European immigrants came for industrial jobs during the 1800s. Immigration from these two regions increased during the 1900s.
What are Asia and Latin America?
Put these naturalization steps in order: take the oath at a ceremony, submit an application to USCIS, complete the interview and required tests.
What is submit the application, complete the interview and tests, and take the oath at a ceremony?
Name two legal duties and two voluntary responsibilities of citizenship
Accept any two duties: obey laws, pay taxes owed, serve in court when required, attend school as required, or defend the nation if legally called upon. Accept any two responsibilities: vote, stay informed, communicate with elected officials, respect others’ rights and beliefs, or volunteer.
Match the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to these changes: citizenship protections, abolition of slavery, and protection against racial discrimination in voting.
What are the 13th—abolished slavery; 14th—established citizenship protections and overturned Dred Scott’s citizenship ruling; and 15th—prohibited denying voting rights because of race, color, or previous enslavement?
One country has a monarch whose power is legally limited. Another has a monarch who rules without effective legal limits. Name both government types in order.
What are constitutional monarchy and absolute monarchy?