Citizenship
Acceptance
What is tolerance?
Person who moves permanently to a new country.
What is an immigrant?
Citizens choose a group of people to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf.
What is a representative democracy?
Ruling authority for a community.
What is government?
The level of government with the highest authority.
What is federal?
Rights and duties of citizens.
What is citizenship?
Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to its protection.
What is a citizen?
A government with a hereditary leader, such as a king or queen. The Monarch's power is usually limited by the country's constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
people who share common traditions, culture, language, etc.
What is Ethnic group?
Males must register at 18, military draft, 18-25.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Something you are required to do.
What is a duty?
A person who has unwillingly left his or her home to escape war, famine, or natural disaster.
What is a refugee?
The government controls almost all areas of a person's life.
What is a totalitarian government?
The practice of offering your time and services to others without receiving payment.
What is volunteerism?
One duty of a U.S. citizen.
What is pay taxes, attend school, defend the nation, obey laws, or jury duty?
morals, what is good or bad
What are Values?
A legal process to obtain citizenship
What is Naturalization?
Power is held by a person or a group not accountable to the people.
What is an authoritarian regime?
The majority, or more than half of the members of a community has the power to make laws that everyone is the community has the power to make laws that everyone in the community must follow.
What is majority rule?
One way an American can lose his/her citizenship.
What is Denaturalization, committing certain crimes, or expatriation?
Something you should do.
What is responsibility?
A foreign-born resident of the US who has not been naturalized.
What is an alien?
Society controls all aspects of the economy through the government.
What is Socialism?
What is popular sovereignty?
One way the American population changed in the mid to late 1800s.
What is people moved from rural areas to cities or freed men moved from the South to the North?