Citizenship
Road to Independence
Declaration of Independence
Types of Governments
Vocabulary
100

Actions that are required by citizens, such as paying taxes.

What are duties of American citizens?

100

This individual discussed the three natural rights each person receives at birth.

Who is John Locke?

100

This individual drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

Government that is ruled by a small group of people.

What is an Oligarchy?

100

In the United States, the family is the strongest example of this.

What is an Institution?

200
Refugees are an example of this type of alien.

What are legal aliens?

200

This Enlightened thinker believed in the separation of powers.

Who is Montesquieu?

200

The colonists viewed King George as this type of ruler.

What is a tyrant?

200

Representative and Direct are the two types of this government.

What is democracy?

200

The act of refusing to purchase certain products or from certain companies as a method of protest.

What is boycotting?

300

Sign declaration of intent, move to the U.S. and study, apply for citizenship, complete application, conduct interview, take exam, and pledge an oath.

What is the order of operations in the naturalization process?

300

This war resulted from territory and trade disputes over the Ohio River.

What is the French and Indian War?

300

These are the natural rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence?

What is "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?"

300

This form of government is led by representatives of the voters. An example of this is the United States.

What is a Republic?

300

Belief that a nation's power depends on its wealth.

What is Mercantilism?

400

The act of giving up one's own citizenship.

What is Expatriation?

400

These acts limited the rights of colonists after the Boston Tea Party, such as closing the Boston harbor.

What were the Intolerable Acts?

400

This group wrote the Declaration of Independence.

What was the 2nd Continental Congress?

400

North Korea is a modern example of this type of government.

What is Totalitarianism?

400

Legal system created through court decisions, rather than set regulations and statutes.

What is common law?

500
Improperly obtaining citizenship during the naturalization process.

What is denaturalization?

500

Thomas Paine's book that unified colonists and pushed for independence from England.

What is Common Sense?

500

The main purpose of government outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

What is the protection of rights?

500

A form of government where the rules claim to be ruling on behalf of a set of religious ideas or as direct agents of a deity.

What is a theocracy?

500

Belief in human equality, with respect to social, political, and economic rights.

What is egalitarianism?