Govt 14.2 Vocab
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- good character
- a qualification for citizenship
- denaturalize
- loss of citizenship through fraud/deception during the naturalization process; also occurs if they join a communist/totalitarian organization within 5 years
- expatriation
- simplest way to lose citizenship; giving up citizenship by leaving native country and moving to foreign country; can be voluntary or involuntary
- Collective Naturalization
- process by which members of a whole group of people living in the same geographic area, become American citizens
- Indians
- granted citizenship to individual Indians who gave up their traditional culture
- naturalize
- legal process through which a person is granted the rights and privileges of a citizen
- jus sanguinis
- "law of blood;" automatic citizenship; born in foreign country
- voting
- most common way of participating in political life; help choose leaders and direct the course of govt; responsibility
- jus soli
- "law of the soil;" if born in U.S. or U.S. territory = citizen; most common way to be a citizen
- Roger Taney
- led court in Dred Scott case; ruled Scott couldn't bring a legal suit in a federal court
- communists
- can't join this type of organization within the first 5 years of citizenship
- oath
- U.S. oath of allegiance required to become a citizen
- citizen
- members of a political society - a nation
- Dred Scott
- was a slave that lived in a free state for many years, owner died, tried to sue widow, lost; went to supreme court; (1) Dred Scott and slaves were property, (2) African Americans not citizens, (3) slavery legal south of 36-30 line, (4) states w/ laws already banning slavery = unconstitutional
- 14th amendment
- established what constitutes citizenship at national and state levels, people of all races that are born in U.S., and are subject to its government are citizens
- treason
- lose citizenship; extreme disloyalty
- English
- applicants under age 50 must be able to speak/read/write some of this language
- residency
- how long you live somewhere; pertains to citizenship
- Florida
- had to do with collective naturalization