Citizenship
We show loyalty to this during the pledge of Allegiance.
What is the flag or the United States?
One way Americans can serve their Country.
What is:
• Vote • Pay taxes • Obey the law • Serve in the military • Run for office • Work for local, state, or federal government
This is why colonists came to America.
What is:
• Freedom • Political liberty • Religious freedom • Economic opportunity • Escape persecution
The U.S war between the north and the South.
What is the civil war?
This is when women got the right to vote.
When is:
• 1920 • After World War I • (With the) 19th Amendment
What is:
• Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote). • You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote. • Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.) • A male citizen of any race (can vote).
Be born in the United states Under the conditions set by the 14th amendment, naturalize, or derive citizenship.
How can people become U.S. Citizens?
These people lived in America before the Europeans arrived.
What are Native Americans?
Thomas Jefferson Wrote this document.
What is the Declaration of independence?
The reason the flag has 13 Stripes.
What is, to represent the 13 original colonies?
These people can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the U.S.
Who are U.S. Citizens?
The Importance of all men ages 18 through 25 registering for the Selective Service.
What is:
• Required by law • Civic duty • Makes the draft fair, if needed
Group of people taken and sold as slaves
What are Africans?
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York are examples of this.
What are the 13 original colonies?
An American Indian Tribe.
• Apache • Blackfeet • Cayuga • Cherokee • Cheyenne • Chippewa • Choctaw • Creek • Crow • Hopi • Huron • Inupiat • Lakota • Mohawk • Mohegan • Navajo • Oneida • Onondaga • Pueblo • Seminole • Seneca • Shawnee • Sioux • Teton • Tuscarora
Three rights of everyone living in the U.S.
What are:
• Freedom of expression • Freedom of speech • Freedom of assembly • Freedom to petition the government • Freedom of religion • The right to bear arms
The importance of paying federal taxes.
What is:
• Required by law • All people pay to fund the federal government • Required by the (U.S.) Constitution (16th Amendment) • Civic duty?
War to get independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
These events happened in a war.
• (Battle of) Bunker Hill • Declaration of Independence • Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton) • (Battle of) Saratoga • Valley Forge (Encampment) • (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)
What is the Revolutionary war?
The Amendment that states all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are U.S. Citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Two promises that new citizens make in the Oath of alligence.
What are:
• Give up loyalty to other countries • Defend the (U.S.) Constitution • Obey the laws of the United States • Serve in the military (if needed) • Serve (help, do important work for) the nation (if needed) • Be loyal to the United States
• Voting • Running for office • Joining a political party • Helping with a campaign • Joining a civic group • Joining a community group • Giving an elected official your opinion (on an issue) • Contacting elected officials • Supporting or opposing an issue or policy • Writing to a newspaper
What are examples of civic participation?
A reason the Americans declared independence from Britain.
What is:
• High taxes • Taxation without representation • British soldiers stayed in Americans’ houses (boarding, quartering) • They did not have self-government • Boston Massacre • Boston Tea Party (Tea Act) • Stamp Act • Sugar Act • Townshend Acts • Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Publius wrote this document.
What are the Federalist papers?
A leader of the Woman's rights movement.
Who is:
• Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Sojourner Truth • Harriet Tubman • Lucretia Mott • Lucy Stone