Mini Immigration Test 2

Question 1

The U.S citizenship and immigration services, is a _____________________, administrative most of the key steps to the naturalization process.

Answer 1

bureau of the department of Homeland Security

Question 2

Immigrants who want to become citizens must meet five requirements:

Answer 2

• Applicants must have entered the US legally
• They must be good moral character
• They must declare their support of the american government
• They must read and right english

Question 3

Draft evaders, military deserters, polygamists, anarchists, communists, or followers of any other totalitarian system will be _________.

Answer 3

denied of citizenship

Question 4

An applicant requesting citizenship must be at least ________________________________________.

Answer 4

18 years old, lived in the US as a lawfully admitted resident alien for 30 months of the previous 5 years..

Question 5

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

Answer 5

3

Question 6

If married to a US citizen he or she needs __ years of residency before filling

Answer 6

3

Question 7

_________ is a process by which members of a whole group of people, living in the same geographic area, become American citizenship through an act of congress

Answer 7

Collective naturalization

Question 8

Congress has used collective naturalization five times

Answer 8

• 1803 Louisiana Purchase
• 1819 purchase of Florida
• Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845
• Hawaii in 1900
• residents of puerto rico in 1917

Question 9

In ______ Congress decided that the citizenship guarantees of the ____ amendment would not apply to Native Americans

Answer 9

.1868 and 14th

Question 10

Only the federal gov. can both grant and take away ______

Answer 10

citizenship

Question 11

Americans can lose their citizenship in any of three ways

Answer 11

Through expatriation, By being convicted of certain crimes, through denaturalization

Question 12

The simplest way to lose citizenship is through ________ or giving up ones citizenship by leaving ones native country to live in a foreign country.

Answer 12

Expatriatism

Question 13

_____ may be voluntary or involuntary

Answer 13

Expatriatism

Question 14

A person may loose their citizenship when convicted of certain federal crimes that involve extreme disloyalty

Answer 14

.

Question 15

Crimes include treason, participation in a rebellion, and attempts to overthrow the gov. through violent means.

Answer 15

.

Question 16

The loss of citizenship through fraud or deception during the naturalization process is called _______***

Answer 16

denaturalization

Question 17

_________ could also occur if an individual joins in a communist or totalitarian organization less than five years after becoming citizens

Answer 17

denaturalization

Question 18

Respect for the law is crucial in modern society, but this respect depends on knowledge of the ___.

Answer 18

law

Question 19

The american ideal of citizenship has always stressed each citizenships responsibility to participate in political life

Answer 19

.

Question 20

The most common way a citizen participates in political life as by

Answer 20

Voting

Question 21

_____ is also an important way to express faith in one’s political systems.

Answer 21

Voting

Question 22

A major challenge for any political systems and mainly democratic systems is _______

Answer 22

crime and criminals

Question 23

A ____ is an against the law of the state. May harm an individual or a persons property.

Answer 23

crime

Question 24

To protect 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 ___ , ___ states had search laws that permitted police to enter a home without a warrant if they had probable cause to believe that the occupant had committed a felony

Answer 25

1980, 23 states

Question 26

A _____ is a major crime.

Answer 26

felony

Question 27

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

Answer 27

warrant

Question 28

_____ v. _______ the court established the exclusionary rule.

Answer 28

weeks v. US

Question 29

The ___________ states that any illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in federal court.

Answer 29

exclusionary rule

Question 30

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 in defective.

Answer 30

US v. Leon

Question 31

In the _____ case a judge had made a mistake by issuing a warrant based on probable cause that later was found to be invalid.

Answer 31

Leon

Question 32

That same year, in 1984 the Court also approved an “_______” exception to the exclusionary rule.

Answer 32

“inevitable discovery”

Question 33

In ___ v. ____ the Court held that evidence obtained in violation of defendants rights can be used at trial.

Answer 33

Nix v. Williams

Question 34

The ______ , however, must be show that the evidence would have been eventually discovered by legal means.

Answer 34

prosecutor

Question 35

the police are free to search an automobile and the containers within it where they have _____ to believe contraband or evidence contained.

Answer 35

probable cause

Question 36

____ amendment protections may be limited inside high schools***

Answer 36

4th

Question 37

In ____ v. ____ the supreme court ruled that school officials o not need warrants or probable cause to search students or their property.***

Answer 37

New Jersey v. T.L.O

Question 38

All that is needed are reasonable grounds to believe a search will uncover ______ that a student has broken school rules.

Answer 38

evidence

Question 39

In 1995 the court upheld in ________ v. ______mandatory suspicion-less drug tests for all students participating in interscholastic athletics

Answer 39

Vernon School District v. Action

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Omnibus 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 for his defense”

Answer 42

6th

Question 43

The supreme court first dealt with the right to counsel in state courts in ____ v. ______in 1932

Answer 43

Powell v. Al.

Question 44

Ten years later in ____ v. ____ the court held that states did not have to provide a lawyer in cases not involving the death penalty.

Answer 44

Betts v. Brady

Question 45

In _____, Clarence Earl Gideon won a landmark case that ended the Betts rule

Answer 45

1963

Question 46

In 1963 in a unanimous verdict the Court overruled Betts v. Brady

Answer 46

.

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Gideon

Question 48

Hundreds of other Florida prisoners and thousands more in other states who had been convicted without counsel were also set free.

Answer 48

.

Question 49

The court has since extended the ____ decision by ruling that whenever a jail sentence of 6 months or more is possible punishment the accused has the right to a lawyer at the public expense from the time of the arrest through the appeals.

Answer 49

Gideon

Question 50

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

Answer 50

5th

Question 51

The Courts have interpreted this amendment’s protection against _______ to cover witness before congressional committees and grand juries as well as defendants in criminal cases.

Answer 51

self-incrimination

Question 52

In 1964 the court reversed Escobedo’s conviction, ruling that Escobedo’s ___ amendment right to remain silent and his ___ amendment right to an attorney had been violated.

Answer 52

5th and 6th amendments

Question 53

A confession 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 53

.

Question 54

In march 1963 Ernesto Miranda had been arrested and convicted for the rape and kidnapping of an 18 yr old woman.

Answer 54

.

Question 55

During questioning Miranda was not told he could remain silent or have a lawyer

Answer 55

.

Question 56

Miranda confessed, signed a statement admitting and describing the crime, was convicted, and then appealed

Answer 56

.

Question 57

The court ruled that the __ amendment against self incrimination requires suspects be clearly informed of their rights before police question them

Answer 57

5th

Question 58

The guidelines that police use before questioning of suspects are now known as ________.

Answer 58

Miranda rights

Question 59

The __ amendment forbids “Cruel and unusual punishment”

Answer 59

8th

Question 60

The __ amendment states in part than no person shall be “twice put in jeopardy of life and limb”

Answer 60

5th

Question 61

______ means a person may not be tried twice for the same crime, thus protecting people from continual harassment.

Answer 61

Double Jeopardy

Question 62

In ___ v. _____ in 1976 the court ruled that under adequate guidelines the death penalty does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment

Answer 62

Gregg v. Georgia