Immigrants and Aliens

Question 1

An ______is a person who lives in a country where he or she is not a citizen.

Answer 1

Alien

Question 2

An _______ is a person who comes to a new country intending to live there permanently.

Answer 2

Immigrant

Question 3

United States law classifies aliens into _____ different categories

Answer 3

5

Question 4

________ is a person from a foreign nation who has established permanent residence in the US.

Answer 4

Resident Aliens

Question 5

A __________ is a person from a foreign country who expects to stay in the US for a short, specified period of time.

Answer 5

Non-resident Alien

Question 6

An ________is a citizen of a nation with which the US is at war.

Answer 6

Enemy alien

Question 7

______ are people fleeing to escape persecution or danger.

Answer 7

Refugees

Question 8

An _________ is a person who comes to the US without a legal permit.

Answer 8

illegal Alien

Question 9

The Constitution clearly assigns ______ the power to control immigration policy.

Answer 9

Congress

Question 10

In 1882 Congress passed the first major federal immigration law that barred entrance to people such as the _________, __________, and ____________.

Answer 10

Mentally Handicapped, convicts, and paupers

Question 11

Congress also passed the _________________which restricted the admission of Chinese laborers.

Answer 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 12

The __________ , known known as the Johnson Act, lowered the number of immigrants allowed into the country to less than 165,000 per year.

Answer 12

Immigration Act of 1924

Question 13

_______is a general pardon the government offers to illegal aliens.

Answer 13

Amnesty

Question 14

By 1990, 85% of immigrants to the United States were coming from ___________________.

Answer 14

Asia and Latin America

Question 15

In 1982, the Supreme COurt ruled that the State of ______could not deny free public education to children of illegal aliens.

Answer 15

Texas

Question 16

The ______________encouraged immigration of workers with “ extraordinary abilities.”

Answer 16

Immigration Act of 1990

Question 17

__________ is the legal process by which a person is granted the rights and privileges of a citizen.

Answer 17

Naturalization

Question 18

______________in 1857 challenged the basis of state citizenship.
.

Answer 18

Dred Scott vs. Sandford

Question 19

__________ hoped that the court’s decision would begin a “chain of events” that would produce a “complete overthrow of the whole slave system.”

Answer 19

Fredrick douglass

Question 20

The ________________ to the Constitution overruled the Dred Scott decision.
there are three basic sources of US citizenship

Answer 20

14th amendment

Question 21

________ is a latin phrase that means “law of the soil”

Answer 21

Jus soli

Question 22

________ means the “law of blood”

Answer 22

Jus sanguinis

Question 23

to enter the united states an immigrant must enter the country __________

Answer 23

legally and must be of moral character.