Citizenship Part 2

Question 1

The ______, a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security, administrators most of the key steps to the naturalization process

Answer 1

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Question 2

What are the five requirements that immigrants must have to meet?

Answer 2

1. Applicants must have entered the United States legally
2. They must be of good moral character
3. They must declare their support of the principles of American government
4. They must prove they can read, write, and speak English
5. They must show some basic knowledge of American history and government

Question 3

Applicants older than __ and have lived in the US for __ years are exempt from this requirement

Answer 3

50

20

Question 4

Who can be denied membership?

Answer 4

Draft evaders 
military deserters 
polygamists 
anarchists 
communists 
followers of any totalitarian system

Question 5

Steps to Citizenship
1. An applicant requesting citizenship must be at least __ years old, have lived in the US as a lawfully admitted resident alien for __ months of the previous __ years

Answer 5

18
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Question 6

Steps to citizenship

2. Have lived in the state where the petition is filed for at least __ months

Answer 6

3

Question 7

Steps to Citizenship

3. If marries to a US citizen, he or she only needs __ years of residency before filing

Answer 7

3

Question 8

________ is a process by which members of a whole group of people, living in the same geographic area, become American Citizens through and act of Congress

Answer 8

Collective Naturalization

Question 9

What five times did congress use collective naturalization

Answer 9

1803 people living in the territory gain through the Louisiana Purchase
FLorida was purchased in 1819
Republic of Texas was admitted to the UNion in 1845
Hawaii in 1900
Residents of Puerto Rico in 1917

Question 10

1868 Congress decided that the citizenship guarantees of the 14th amendment would not apply to _____

Answer 10

Native Americans

Question 11

Only the ___ can both grant citizenship and take it away

Answer 11

federal government

Question 12

What three ways can americans loose their citizenship?

Answer 12

Through exparation
by being convicted of certain crimes
through denaturalization

Question 13

What is the simplest way to loose citizenship?

Answer 13

expatriation

Question 14

______ giving up one’s citizenship by leaving ones native country to live in a foreign country

Answer 14

expatriation

Question 15

Expatriation may be ____ ir ____

Answer 15

voluntary or involuntary

Question 16

What are some of the crimes where you can lose citizenship

Answer 16

treason
participation in rebellion
and attempts to overthrow the government through violent means

Question 17

The loss if citizenship through fraud or deception during the naturalization process is called ____

Answer 17

denaturalization

Question 18

Denaturalization could also occur if an individual joins a ___ or ___ organization less than five years after becoming a citizen

Answer 18

communists or totalitarian

Question 19

The American ideal of citizenship has always stressed each citizen’s responsibility to participate in ____

Answer 19

political life

Question 20

The most common way a citizen participates in political life is by ___

Answer 20

voting

Question 21

___ is an important way to express faith in one’s political system

Answer 21

voting

Question 22

A major challenge for democratic political systems is dealing with ____

Answer 22

crime and criminals

Question 23

A ____ is an act against a law of the state

Answer 23

crime

Question 24

To protect of the innocent, the __ amendment guarantees “the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”

Answer 24

4th

Question 25

Before 1980, __ states had search laws that permitted police to enter a home without a ____ if they had probable cause to believe that the occupant had committed a ____

Answer 25

23
warrant
felony

Question 26

A ___ is major crime

Answer 26

felony

Question 27

A police do not need a ____ to search and arrest a person they see breaking the law

Answer 27

warrant

Question 28

In ___ v. ___ the Court established the exclusionary rule

Answer 28

Weeks v. United States

Question 29

______ States that any illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in federal court

Answer 29

exclusionary rule

Question 30

They ask whether criminals should go free simply because the police made a mistake in ______

Answer 30

collective evidence

Question 31

In the ___ v. ___ the Court ruled that as long as the police act in good faith when they request a warrant , the evidence they collect may be used in court even if the warrant is defective

Answer 31

United States v. Leon

Question 32

In what case did the judge make a mistake by issuing a warrant based on probable cause that later was found to be invalid?

Answer 32

Leon

Question 33

In 1984, the court also approved an “_____” exception to the exclusionary rule

Answer 33

inevitable discovery

Question 34

In ___ v. ___ the court held that evidence obtained in violation of a defendant’s tights can be used at trial

Answer 34

Nix v. Williams

Question 35

The ______ must show that the evidence would have been eventually discovered by legal means

Answer 35

prosecutor

Question 36

the 4th amendment protections may be limited inside ____

Answer 36

high schools

Question 37

In ___ v. ___ the Supreme Court ruled that school officials do not need warrants or probable cause to search students or their property

Answer 37

New Jersey v. T.L.O

Question 38

In 1995 the Court upheld in ___ v. ___ mandatory suspicionless ____ for all students participating in interscholastic athletics

Answer 38

Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton

drug tests

Question 39

In ___ v. ___ extended the fourth amendment protections by prohibiting ______ without a warrant

Answer 39

Katz v. United States

wiretapping

Question 40

In 1968 Congress passed the omnibus _______ which required federal, state, and local authorities to obtain a court order for most wiretaps

Answer 40

Crime Control and Safe Streets Act

Question 41

In 1978 Congress passed the ______ requiring a court order even for wiretapping and bugging in national security cases

Answer 41

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Question 42

The ___ amendment guarantees a defendant the right “ to have the assistance of counsel fr his defense”

Answer 42

6th

Question 43

Generally, the federal courts provided _____, or an attorney, in federal cases

Answer 43

counsel

Question 44

The Supreme Court first dealt with the right to counsel in state courts in ___ v. ___

Answer 44

Powell v. Alabama

Question 45

Ten years later, in ___ v. ___, the COurt held that states did not have to provide a lawyer in cases not involving the _____

Answer 45

Betts v. Brady

death penalty

Question 46

In 1963, _____ won a landmark case that ended the Betts rule

Answer 46

Clarence Earl Gideon

Question 47

In 1963, in an Unanimous verdict, the Court overruled ___ v. ___

Answer 47

Betts v. Brady

Question 48

_____ was released, retried with a lawyer assisting him, and acquitted

Answer 48

Gideon

Question 49

Hundreds of other Florida prisoners and thousands more in other states who had been convicted without _____ were also set free along with Gideon

Answer 49

Counsel

Question 50

The Court has since extended the GIdeon decision by ruling that whenever a jail sentence of ___ months or more is possible punishment, the accused has a right to a lawyer at the public’s expense from the time of the arrest to the ____ process.

Answer 50

6

Appeals

Question 51

The ___ amendment says that no one “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”

Answer 51

5th

Question 52

The courts have interpreted this amendment’s protection against _____ to cover witnesses before congressional committees and grand juries as well as defendants in criminal cases

Answer 52

self incrimination

Question 53

The ____ amendment also protects defendants against _____ extorted by force or violence

Answer 53

5th

confession

Question 54

Escobedo v. Illinois
In 1964 the Court reversed _____ conviction, ruling that his 5th amendment right to remain silent and his ___ amendment right to an attorney had been violated

Answer 54

6th

Question 55

A ____ or other incriminating statements an accused person makes when he or she is denied access to a lawyer may not be used in trial

Answer 55

confession

Question 56

In ___ v. ___ the court ruled that the 5th amendment’s protection against self- incrimination requires suspects be clearly informed of their rights before police question them

Answer 56

Miranda v. Arizona

Question 57

The guidelines that police use before the questioning of suspects area are known as the ____

Answer 57

miranda rules

Question 58

The 5th amendment states in part that no person shall be “_____”

Answer 58

twice put in jeopardy of life and limb

Question 59

____ means a person may not be tried twice for the sane crime, thus protecting people from continual harassment

Answer 59

Double Jeopardy

Question 60

The ___ amendment forbids “cruel and unusual punishment”

Answer 60

8th

Question 61

In ___ v. ___ the court ruled that under adequate guidelines the death penalty does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment

Answer 61

Gregg v. Georgia