Semester Exam 1-3

Question 0

What is a naturalized citizen?

Answer 0

Foreign-born people who live in then United States and went through the naturalization process

Question 1

What are the two ways to be a legal US citizen?

Answer 1

He or she can be a citizen if both parents are US citizens or if one parent is a citizen who has lived in the United States.

Question 2

What are the steps to become a naturalized citizen?

Answer 2

Complete an application, a USCIS official talks to the applicant to make sure that the person meets the five requirements, take a citizenship exam, have a special ceremony and take an oath, and sign a document

Question 3

What are some responsibilities and duties of citizens? Name three of each.

Answer 3

Responsibilities: be informed and vote, participate in your community and government, and respect the rights and property of others. duties: obey the law, pay taxes, and attend school.

Question 4

What is the term for a noncitizen that is legally residing in the country?

Answer 4

Alien

Question 5

Discuss the difference in rights between a citizen and a noncitizen. What rights do noncitizens have? What are rights reserved only for citizens?

Answer 5

Citizens can hold jobs, own property, attend public schools, receive other government services, and have the right to be protected by the law. Noncitizens do not. Voting.

Question 6

What is citizenship? Which amendment defines US citizenship? What does it say?

Answer 6

Citizenship is the rights and duties of citizens. The 14th amendment. It states that anyone born or naturalized in the United States is a US citizen.

Question 7

What are the most popular forms of government?

Answer 7

Direct democracy, representative democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, theocracy, oligarchy, and anarchy

Question 8

What’s forms are similar? Which are different?

Answer 8

Representative and direct democracy are similar because they are both a form of democracy and monarchy and dictatorship are both a form of autocracy. These are different because autocracy is a form of government in which political power is controlled by one and democracy is when political power is exercised by all citizens.

Question 9

Which forms are authoritarian? What does it mean to be authoritarian?

Answer 9

Dictatorship, monarchy, theocracy, and oligarchy. It means that powers are held by a person or a group not accountable to the people.

Question 10

Which forms are Democratic? What does it mean to be democratic?

Answer 10

Representative democracy and direct democracy. And democratic regimes, the people rule.

Question 11

What does autocratic mean? What are forms of government that are autocratic?

Answer 11

Autocracy is a form of government in which political powers are controlled by one individual. Examples are monarchy and dictatorship.

Question 12

Which form of government has an inherited ruler?

Answer 12

Monarchy

Question 13

Which form of government do we have in the US?

Answer 13

Representative democracy or a republic

Question 14

Who holds the power in our form of government? Which principle is this?

Answer 14

The people. Democracy or popular sovereignty

Question 15

The Mayflower compact was signed by the pilgrims upon their arrival. What was its purpose?

Answer 15

Self-government

Question 16

What ideas came from the Mayflower compact?

Answer 16

It established a direct democracy and colonial America self-government, and anyone in the town could attend and express his or her views.

Question 17

What ideas came from the Magna Carta?

Answer 17

It established the principle of limited government which is the idea that a ruler or government is not all-powerful. Also it protects landholders’ rights. Limited monarchy.

Question 18

What ideas came from the English Bill of Rights?

Answer 18

It ended the struggle between Parliament and the Monarch. It changed English government. These new ideas were part of the enlightenment.

Question 19

What ideas came from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?

Answer 19

It supported independence for the colonies and called for the colonist to rebel against the king’s violent abuse of power.

Question 20

What ideas from John Locke are evident in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 20

Wrote the 2 Treatises of Government and wrote that all people were born with certain God-given rights, called natural rights. These included the rights to life, freedom, and to own property. He believed in form of social contract and that people agreed to give up some rights to be ruled by a government but if the ruler failed to protect the rights of the people, they could choose new leaders

Question 21

What ideas from Montesquieu are evident in the U.S. Constitution?

Answer 21

Developed the idea that the power of government should be divided into branches and that no one branch would become too strong and threaten people’s rights. Separation of powers and checks and balances

Question 22

How do you know the colonists were upset with British rule? What are some things from history that show you that?

Answer 22

They started the French and Indian war. The series of events in the 1960s caused growing resentment against British rule.

Question 23

What was a document in which colonists declared they were free from British control?

Answer 23

The Declaration of Independence

Question 24

What was America’s first Constitution called?

Answer 24

The Articles of Confederation

Question 25

Why did our first constitution not work? Give 2 specific examples.

Answer 25

There was lack of power and money, lack of Central power, and the rules were too rigid. Congress had no power to collect taxes and no single leader or group directed government policy.

Question 26

What were the federalist? Anti-Federalist? What was the difference in thinking between the two groups?

Answer 26

Federalist were those she supported the constitution. Anti-Federalist were those who did not support the Constitution. The Federalist argued that the United States cannot survive without a strong government and anti-Federalist argued that the new constitution would destroy the liberties one by the American revolution and they wanted a Bill of Rights.

Question 27

What was the Great Compromise?

Answer 27

It was a plan that Congress would have two houses – a Senate and House of Representatives and in the Senate each state would have 2 members. This pleased the smaller states. In the house, the number of seats for each state would reflect the states population. This pleased the larger states. The Virginia plan (big states) and the New Jersey plan (small states)