Test 7 Mini Immigration Test

Question 1

A bureau of the Department of Homeland Security is an example of what?

Answer 1

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services

Question 2

Administers most of the key steps to the naturalization process:

Answer 2

Department of Homeland Security

Question 3

Immigrants who want to become citizens must meet 5 requirement:

Answer 3

• must have entered the US legally
• must be of good moral character
• must declare their support of the principles of American govt
• must prove they can read, speak, and write in english (unless older than 50 and have lived here for more than 20 years
• must show some basic knowledge of American history and govt.

Question 4

Name some examples of people that would be denied membership:

Answer 4

draft evaders
military deserters
polygamists
anarchists
communists
followers of any other totalitarian system

Question 5

List 2 requirements that an alien must do before they can request citizenship.

Answer 5

• Must at least be 18

- Must have lived in the US as a lawfully admitted resident alien 30 months of the previous 5 yrs

Question 6

How long does a resident alien have to live in the state where the petition is filed?

Answer 6

3 months

Question 7

If a resident alien is married to a US citizen, they would only need ____ years of residency before filing.

Answer 7

3 years

Question 8

Process by which members of a whole group of people, living in the same geographic area, become American citizens through an act of Congress

Answer 8

Collective Naturalization

Question 9

Congress has used collective naturalization 5 times:

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 who?

Answer 10

Native Americans

Question 11

Who can grant both citizenship and take it away?

Answer 11

only the federal govt

Question 12

What 3 ways can americans lose their citizenship?

Answer 12

• expatriation
• being convicted of certain crimes
• through denaturalization

Question 13

What is the simplest way to lose citizenship?

Answer 13

expatriation

Question 14

Giving up of one’s citizenship by leaving one’s native country to live in a foreign country.

Answer 14

Expatriation

Question 15

May be voluntary or involuntary

Answer 15

Expatriation

Question 16

A person may lose citizenship when convicted of certain federal crimes that involve what?

Answer 16

extreme disloyalty

Question 17

Crimes included for extreme disloyalty:

Answer 17

• treason
• participation in a rebellion
• attempts to overthrow the govt through violent means

Question 18

What does it mean to lose citizenship through fraud or deception during the naturalization process?

Answer 18

Denaturalization

Question 19

What can occur if an individual joins a communist or totalitarian organization less than 5 years after becoming citizens?

Answer 19

Denaturalization

Question 20

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

Answer 20

knowledge of the law

Question 21

The American ideal of citizenship has always stressed each citizen’s responsibility to ________.

Answer 21

participate in political life

Question 22

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

Answer 22

voting

Question 23

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

Answer 23

voting

Question 24

A major challenge for democratic political systems is dealing with ________ and ________.

Answer 24

crimes and criminals

Question 25

What is an act against a law of the state?

Answer 25

A crime

Question 26

A crime may harm ______ or _______.

Answer 26

individual or a person's property

Question 27

What guarantees "the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures"?

Answer 27

The 4th amendment

Question 28

Before 1980, How many 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 28

23

Question 29

_____ is a major crime.

Answer 29

A felony

Question 30

When do the police not need a warrant to search and arrest somebody?

Answer 30

When they see them break the law.

Question 31

What established Exclusionary rule?

Answer 31

Weeks Vs. US

Question 32

What states that any illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in federal court?

Answer 32

Exclusionary rule

Question 33

What 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 33

US Vs. Leon

Question 34

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

Answer 34

The Leon Case

Question 35

The court approved an "inevitable discovery" exception to ______.

Answer 35

Exclusionary rule

Question 36

_________ vs. ________ the court held that evidence obtained in violation of a defendant's rights can be used at trial.

Answer 36

Nix Vs. Williams

Question 37

What does the prosecutor have to show about the evidence?

Answer 37

That it would have been eventually discovered by legal means

Question 38

When can the police search a vehicle and the containers within it?

Answer 38

where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is contained

Question 39

What protections may be limited in high schools?

Answer 39

4th Amendment

Question 40

What ruled that school officials do not need warrants or probable cause to search students or their property?

Answer 40

New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.

Question 41

What is needed for school officials to search a student or their belongings?

Answer 41

reasonable grounds to believe a search will uncover evidence that a student has broken school rules.

Question 42

What made mandatory suspicionless drug tests for all students participating in interscholastic athletics legal?

Answer 42

1995 Vernonia School District 47J Vs. Acton

Question 43

What required federal, state, and local authorities to obtain a court order for most wiretaps?

Answer 43

1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act

Question 44

What required a court order even for wiretapping and bugging in national security cases?

Answer 44

1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Question 45

What guarantees a defendant the right "to have the assistance of counsel for his defense"?

Answer 45

6th Amendment

Question 46

What do the federal courts provide?

Answer 46

- Counsel | - Attorney

Question 47

The courts have interpreted this amendment's protection against self-incrimination to cover witnesses before congressional committees and grand juries as well as defendants in criminal cases.

Answer 47

Fifth Amendment

Question 48

What protects defendants against confessions extorted by force or violence?

Answer 48

The Fifth Amendment

Question 49

In what court case were the 5th and 6th amendments violated?

Answer 49

Escobedo V. Illinois

Question 50

What comments can not be used during a trial?

Answer 50

A confession or other incriminating statements an accused person makes when he or she denied access to a lawyer

Question 51

March 1963, Ernesto Miranda had been arrested and convicted for the rape and kidnapping of an 18 yr old woman:

Answer 51

Miranda Vs. Arizona