History of US Citizenship
This amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, declares that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
You must demonstrate adherence to the principles of this law of the land to be eligible for citizenship.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Established by Article III of the Constitution, this body is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
The condition of having paid work.
What is employment?
Already a champion bodybuilder when he came to the U.S. from Austria in 1968, this billionaire went on to conquer Hollywood, amass a real estate fortune, and serve two terms as California's governor, once stating, 'There is one label I hold above all else: American.
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger? (Austria)
The Naturalization Act of 1870 explicitly extended naturalization rights to all “aliens of _______ nativity and to persons of _______ descent.
What is African?
You must be at least this age to apply for U.S. citizenship.
What is 18 years old?
The light bulb, the assembly line, and the airplane are all examples of this.
What is an American innovation?
The movement of persons into a new country with the intent to reside in that country.
What is immigration/immigrating?
The media mogul arrived in the States in 1973 and has had a profound impact on American business, culture and politics through his ownership of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Fox News.
Rupert Murdoch? (Australia)
The _______ Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first U.S. law to ban immigration based on race or nationality. It was repealed in 1943.
What is Chinese?
You must have continuous residence in the U.S. for this length of time to be eligible to apply for U.S. citizens.
What is 5 years?
He helped establish the first bank of the United States.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization.
What is nationality?
Born in Paris to Chinese parents, this child prodigy played the cello for John F. Kennedy in 1962 and has since earned 20 Grammys.
Who is Yo-Yo Ma? (France)
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling established that enslaved people and free African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and were not entitled to the rights and privileges of citizenship, such as the right to sue in federal courts.
What is Dred Scott (v. Sanford)?
You must correctly answer this number of questions out of 20 questions asked to pass the civics test.
What is 12?
The Nation’s first unofficial motto, seen on the Great Seal, is Latin for "out of many, one."
What is E Pluribus Unum?
The intentional, systemic destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
What is genocide?
This biochemist came to the U.S. in 1985 from Hungary, carrying her life savings sewn inside her daughter's teddy bear. Decades later, her persistence paid off when she and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their foundational work on mRNA vaccines.
Who is Katalin Karikó? (Hungary)
This 1898 Supreme Court Case, United States v. ____________, established the precedent that any person born in the United States is a citizen by birth regardless of race or parents' status.
What is Wong Kim Ark?
Male immigrants between the ages of 18 to 25 must register for this to be eligible for U.S. citizenship.
What is Selective Service?
Fought between 1812 and 1898, these are the four major wars the United States engaged in during the 1800s
What are the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War
A unique 7, 8, or 9 digit identifier assigned by the Department of Homeland Security to noncitizens for tracking immigration files.
What is an Alien Registration Number?
This Nvidia founder and CEO wrote a memo stating that "the miracle of Nvidia—built by all of you, and by brilliant colleagues around the world, would not be possible without immigration."
Who is Jensen Huang? (Taiwan)