American Citizenship- Chapter 1
notes and final exam prep
Mrs. Corry Bell 2 First Quarter
Mrs. Corry Bell 2 First Quarter
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- political party
- a group of individuals with broad, common interests who organize to support candidates for office and determine public policy.
- terroism
- the use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal
- citizens
- ______ have rights and responsibilities. ______ agree to accept the government's authority and follow its rules.
- immigrants
- people who move permanently to a new country
- majority rule
- political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people
- direct democracy
- all citizens meet to debate government matters and vote firsthand
- Greece
- ideas for citizenship came from 2,500 years ago from this country
- Abraham Lincoln
- said "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
- civics
- the study of the rights and duties of citizens
- government
- the ruling authority for a community
- naturalization
- legal process by which people become citizens of the United States
- representative democracy
- a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."
- Thomas Hobbes
- believed that without government life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
- patriotism
- love for one's country
- dictatorship
- a government controlled by one person or a small group of people
- E pluribus unum
- means "Out of Many, One"
- migration
- mass movement
- budget
- a plan for collecting and spending money
- aliens
- noncitizens who come legally to the United States
- deport
- to send back to one's own country
- public policy
- a course of government action to achieve community goals
- democracy
- a government in which citizens hold the power to rule