SS.7.CG.2.1: Define the term “citizen,” and explain the constitutional means of becoming a U.S. citizen.
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves, and defines voters as males at least 21 years of age
(14th, 7th, 1st, 5th)
What is the 14th Amendment?
Something a person should do.
(Obligation, Responsibility, Chore, Law)
What is a responsibility.
A legal process in which someone accused of a crime faces a judge and a jury, whose job is to look at the facts and decide whether the accused person is guilty or not guilty; the right to a trial is protected in the Sixth Amendment
(Trial, Rule of Law, Bill of Rights, Sixth Amendment)
What is a trial?
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion, and from interfering with freedom of religious exercise, press, speech, assembly, or petition
(4th, 12th, 10th, 1st)
What is the 1st Amendment?
A person who comes to a country to live there permanently
(Alien, Citizen, Immigrant, Due Process)
What is an immigrant?
Beliefs or actions that are seen as a benefit to the community rather than individual interests, also known as the public good
(Rule of Law, Common Good, Naturalization, Wellbeing)
What is the common good?
The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
(Laws, Law of Soil, Bill of Rights, Rule of Law)
What is the Bill of Rights?
A preference, opinion or attitude that favors one way of thinking or feeling over another.
(Propaganda, Symbolism, Bias, Rule of Law)
What is Bias?
The process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen.
(Citizenization, Naturalization, Law of Soil, Law of Blood)
What is naturalization?
A requirement, something a person has to do.
(Responsibility, Obligation, Law of Blood, Rule of Law)
What is an obligation?
The structure of the federal government, according to the U.S. Constitution, that sets up three branches with their own specific powers and responsibilities.
(Separation of Powers, Rule of Law, Executive, Checks and Balances)
What is separation of powers?
Plural form of the word “medium,” refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, newspapers and the Internet (web) are different types of media. The term can also be used to describe news organizations as a whole group.
(Media, Press, News, Mediums)
What is media?
The belief that individuals are born with basic rights that cannot be taken away by governments.
(Law of Soil, Citizenship, Natural Rights, Rule of Law)
What are natural rights?
A person who has gone through the process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen.
(Naturalized, Citizenized, Immigration, Alien)
What is Naturalized?
A formal written request made to a person in authority, a leader, and/or an elected official.
(Rule of Law, Trial, Sixth Amendment, Petition)
What is a petition?
The method of spreading ideas or information for the purpose of helping or hurting an institution, a cause, or a person.
(Symbolism, Propaganda, Media, Bias)
What is propaganda?
Any person not a citizen or national of a country.
(Resident, Citizen, Alien, National)
What is an alien?
A system by which men ages 18 through 25 register with the U.S. government for military service.
(Law of Soil, Naturalization, Selective Service, Obligation)
What is Selective Service?
A group of citizens sworn to give a fair verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law.
(Rule of Law, Checks and Balances, Impartial Juries, Right to a Trial)
What is impartial juries?
The right of the press to write and print news and information free from government involvement; guaranteed in the First Amendment.
(Rule of Law, Freedom of the Press, 1st Amendment, Law of Blood)
What is Freedom of the Press?