Test 6 Citizenship and Equal Justice

Question 1

What is a person who lives in a country where they are not a citizen?

Answer 1

alien

Question 2

Person who comes to a new country intending to live there permanently?

Answer 2

An Immigrant

Question 3

What are the 5 different categories that US law classifies aliens into?

Answer 3

Resident Aliens
non-resident alien
enemy alien
refugees
illegal alien

Question 4

person from a foreign nation who has established permanent residence in the US?

Answer 4

Resident aliens

Question 5

What is 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

____________ 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

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

Answer 8

illegal alien

Question 9

The protection that the __________________ guarantees applies to aliens as well as citizens.

Answer 9

Bill of RIghts

Question 10

In 1982, __________ ruled that the state of Texas could not deny free public education to children of illegal aliens.

Answer 10

The Supreme Court

Question 11

Aliens cannot _________ and are exempt from ________ and ___________ duty.

Answer 11

vote

military and jury duty

Question 12

Aliens are not guaranteed the right to ________ freely in the US

Answer 12

travel

Question 13

ALL aliens are required to notify the US citizenship and Immigration Services when they _______.

Answer 13

change their residence.

Question 14

The constitution clearly assigns congress the power to control __________.

Answer 14

immigration policy

Question 15

In 1882, Congress passed the 1st major federal immigration law that barred entrance to people such as __________, ______________, and _______.

Answer 15

mentally handicapped
convicts
paupers

Question 16

What did congress pass that restricted the admission of Chinese laborers?

Answer 16

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 17

The law marked the first time a federal law had restricted either immigration or citizenship on the basis of __________ or ________________.

Answer 17

nationality

ethnicity

Question 18

What is another name for the Immigration Act of 1924?

Answer 18

Johnson Act

Question 19

What lowered the number of immigrants allowed into the country to less than 165,000 per year?

Answer 19

The Immigration Act of 1924

Question 20

The immigration Act of 1924 also favored immigrants from where?

Answer 20

Northern and Western Europe

Question 21

What gave countries such as England and Ireland higher quotas?

Answer 21

The National Origins System

Question 22

What set up 2 categories of Immigrants?

Answer 22

Immigration Act of 1965

Question 23

What are the 2 categories of immigrants?

Answer 23

• Those who could come from the countries of the Eastern Hemisphere
• Those who could come from the Western Hemisphere

Question 24

Higher preferences would be given to persons whose skills would be ______________.

Answer 24

“especially advantageous to the US”

Question 25

What did congress pass in 1986?

Answer 25

The Immigration Reform and Control Act

Question 26

What provided a way for illegal immigrants to become permanent residents and citizens, as well as punishments for employers who hire illegal immigrants?

Answer 26

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Question 27

Aliens who can show that they entered the US before January 1, 1982, and have resided continuously in the country since then may apply for __________.

Answer 27

amnesty

Question 28

What is a general pardon the govt offers illegal aliens?

Answer 28

Amnesty

Question 29

By 1990, 85% of immigrants from any single country to no more than ____% of the annual visas.

Answer 29

7%

Question 30

What encouraged immigration of workers with "extraordinary abilities"?

Answer 30

The Immigration Act of 1990

Question 31

Special immigrants fall into what 3 groups?

Answer 31

- Refugees displaced by war - Close relatives to the US citizens - Those admitted through private laws passed by Congress

Question 32

____________ law is one that applies to a particular person.

Answer 32

Private law

Question 33

What does every citizen go through?

Answer 33

naturalization

Question 34

What is the legal process by which a person is granted the rights and privileges of a citizen?

Answer 34

Naturalization

Question 35

What challenged the basis of state citizenship?

Answer 35

Dred Scott vs. Sanford 1857

Question 36

Why did the Supreme Court rule that Scott could not bring legal suit in federal court?

Answer 36

He was not a citizen

Question 37

Frederick Douglas hoped that the court's decision would begin a __________ and that would produce a "complete overthrow of the whole slave system".

Answer 37

"chain of events"

Question 38

What overruled the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 38

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Question 39

What are the three basic sources of US citizenship?

Answer 39

- Birth on American soil - Naturalization - Being born to a parent who is a US citizen

Question 40

Latin Phrase that means Jus Soli?

Answer 40

"law of the soil"

Question 41

What grants citizenship to nearly all people born in the US or in American Territories?

Answer 41

Jus Soli

Question 42

What means Jus Sanguinis?

Answer 42

"law of the blood"

Question 43

If an individual is born in a foreign country and both parents are US citizens, the child is a citizen provided what?

Answer 43

One requirement is met

Question 44

If only 1 parent is an American citizen, that parent must have lived in the US for ____ years, ____ of which had to occur after the age of 14.

Answer 44

- 5 | - 2

Question 45

All americans who wish to become American citizens must go through ___________.

Answer 45

naturalization

Question 46

The major exception is that a naturalized citizen is not eligible to

Answer 46

serve as a president/vice president