Forms of Government
Governments make these to prevent conflicts between individuals, groups, or nations.
What are laws?
Without this, the government could not fund schools, police, or public services.
What are taxes?
This civic action allows citizens to elect leaders and have a say in government decisions.
What is voting?
People fleeing persecution or danger who are accepted into the U.S. are known as this.
What are refugees?
The first people to live in what is now the United States came from this continent.
What is Asia?
In a democracy, laws are made based on this principle, where more than half of the people agree.
What is majority rule?
Male citizens between 18 and 25 are required to register for this service in case of a national emergency.
What is the Selective Service System?
This is a legal duty for children between the ages of 7 and 16 in most states.
What is attending school?
Naturalization is the legal process to become this in the United States.
What is a U.S. citizen?
This founding document of the United States declares that “all people are equal.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In the United States, this government has the highest level of authority.
What is the national government?
A legal process to obtain citizenship
What is Naturalization?
The first use of direct democracy was in this place. Name city and country.
What is Athens, Greece?
Citizenship comes with rights, responsibilities and obligations such as obeying the law and serving on juries, these are called ___________.
What are duties?
These workers, often employed in factories, got their name from the color of their shirts.
What are blue-collar workers?
In a ____________________ democracy, citizens elect individuals to make laws and govern on their behalf.
What is representative?
Respecting others' beliefs and practices, regardless of differences, is known as this.
What is tolerance?
This level of government is closest to citizens and provides services like schools and emergency services.
What is local government?
What are 2 duties or responsibilities that American citizens have that non-citizens do not?
Right to vote
Enter the Selective Service
Jury Duty
Holding Office
Working some government jobs
The United States became a diverse country by the 20th century, with about 40 million of these newcomers contributing to its growth.
Who are immigrants?
In this type of state, the government controls nearly all aspects of people's lives.
What is a totalitarian state?
In what scenario would someone be born in a country outside of the United States, but still immediately become an American citizen at birth?
One or both of their parents are American citizens.
In the mid-1800s, people began leaving rural areas for cities due to____________________.
What is higher pay in the city factories?
____________ is the practice of offering your time and services to others with receiving payment
What is volunteerism?
This is considered the most important social institution in American life, responsible for teaching both personal and national values.
What is the family?