a non citizen of the United States
(hint: not a person who permanently moves to the U.S.)
What is an alien?
100
Location where most English immigrants settled beginning in the 1700s.
What is North America?
100
According to this principle, when differences arise citizens abide by what MOST PEOPLE WANT
What is majority rules?
100
The concept of "citizenship" began in this ancient society
What is ancient Rome and Greece?
100
a plan for collecting and spending money
What is a budget?
200
term for a king or queen
What is a monarch?
200
The colonies where the plantation system developed (hint: Middle, Western, Southern, New England)
What are the Southern Colonies?
200
system that rests on previous court decisions
What is common law?
200
The process of becoming an American citizen
What is naturalization?
200
The right that women in colonial society did not posess
What is the right to vote?
300
representative for the people
What are delegates?
300
The two regions of the United States where population is growing most rapidly?
(hint: regions of the U.S. are North, South, East and West)
What is the South and West?
300
This document states the American colonists rights as citizens
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The term for a person who moves permanently to the U.S. but is not yet a naturalized citizen
What is an immigrant?
300
name for a large southern estate
What is a plantation?
400
Group of people who wanted to reform the Anglican Church
Who were the Puritans?
400
Farmers grew crops which they traded overseas in which of these groups of colonies? (hint: Middle, Southern, Western, New England)
What is Middle Colonies?
400
Written document granting land and the authority to set up a colonial government
What is charter?
400
U.S. citizens are practicing this form of democracy when they elect members of CONGRESS
What is representative democracy?
400
the period of time a person is considered a citizen after the naturalization process
What is a lifetime?
500
Said, "We have called by different names brethren (brothers) of the same principle."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
area of flat, low plains near the seacoast of Virginia and North Carolina
What is Tidewater?
500
This document resulted in the protection of landholders' rights
What is Magna Carta?
500
One way in which a person becomes an American citizen withOUT going through the process of naturalization? (Just name one though there are more than one.)
What is bring born on American soil? What is being born on an American territory? What is begin born on an overseas U.S. military base?
500
America, Africa and Europe were all points on this major trade route