The American People
The study of the rights and duties of citizens.
What is Civics?
The two ways a person can become a U.S. citizen.
What are Birth and Naturalization?
A system where a king or queen rules the country.
What is a Monarchy?
The term for a person who moves permanently to a new country.
What is an Immigrant?
This is what we call the idea that the United States is made of many different cultures and backgrounds.
What is Diversity?
The legal process by which a foreign-born person becomes a citizen.
What is Naturalization?
A government where citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf.
What is a Representative Democracy (or a Republic)?
The principle that ultimate political power rests with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Besides common values, these are the "rules" or standards Americans commit to.
What are Principles (or Values)
While citizens have rights, they also have these "expected" actions to help the nation.
What are Responsibilities?
A system where the government has total control over all aspects of people's lives.
What is Totalitarianism?
Name one of the two main reasons humans form governments
What are Order and Security?
A person who is a legally recognized member of a nation.
What is a Citizen?
This type of democracy originated in ancient Greece, where every citizen voted on every law.
What is Direct Democracy?
In this system, the government often controls the economy and aims for equal distribution of wealth.
What is Socialism?
This is the term for a system where one person or a small group holds absolute power.
What is Authoritarianism?
After leading a revolution to overthrow the Nationalist government in 1949, this leader established a totalitarian Communist state in China, which he ruled until his death in 1976.
Mao Zedong
This Latin phrase, found on U.S. coins, means "Out of many, one," and represents the balance of diversity and unity.
What is E Pluribus Unum?
Beyond birth and naturalization, a child can sometimes "automatically" become a citizen if this is true about their parents.
What is having one or both parents be U.S. Citizens?
While a "Totalitarian" government refers to the extent of control over citizens' lives, this term specifically refers to the source of power—a single leader who rules with absolute authority and usually gains power through force.
Dictatorship
Governments exist to "accomplish common goals"; the specific actions they take to solve community problems are called this.
What is Public Policy?