Citizenship Basics
This right allows citizens to choose leaders in elections.
What is voting?
Freedom of speech, religion, and press are protected by this amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
This immigration station processed many European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This group of amendments expanded voting rights after the Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This term means taking part in government or community activities.
What is civic participation?
This constitutional principle guarantees fair treatment under the law.
What is due process?
This immigration station mainly processed immigrants from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These are required actions citizens must do, like obeying laws and paying taxes.
What are duties?
This principle means laws must apply equally to all citizens.
What is equal protection?
This is the legal process immigrants complete to become U.S. citizens.
What is naturalization?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This document is the foundation of citizenship rights in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This law banned Chinese immigrants from entering the United States in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term describes fear or dislike of immigrants by native-born citizens.
What is nativism?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This court power allows judges to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This Supreme Court case confirmed birthright citizenship.
What is Wong Kim Ark?
This 1965 law helped end national origin quotas in immigration policy.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?