Civics Vocabulary 2
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- a person owing loyaltu to their country and in turn is protected by their country.
- citizen
- permanent institution made up of decision makers who compose a society's rules and have the authority to enforce the rules.
- government
- the number of births per 1000 persons during one year.
- birth rate
- a limit on the number of immigrants who may come to the US each year.
- quotas
- people who flee their homeland annd seek refuge in another nation.
- refugees
- the number of deaths per 1000 personduring one year.
- death rate
- the claim of membership in a nation.
- citizenship
- a person who studies human population.
- demographer
- labeling someone of something that is out of their control.
- discrimination
- a person who comes to a country to take up permanent resident.
- aliens
- a person who comes to a nation to settle as a permanent resident.
- immigrant
- basic beliefs of standards of conduct that people attempt to live up to.
- ideals
- the legal process where aliens become americal citizens.
- naturalization
- an act or a course of action that is required of one by position, social custom, law, or religion. (pay taxes)
- duty
- things that you should do. (vote)
- responsibility
- when the birth rate is greater than the death rate.
- natural population increase
- when the death rate is greater than the birth rate.
- natural population decrease
- the act of incorperation a territory into your country.
- annexation
- remove someone from a country. (illegal aliens)
- deportation
- people who come illegally to the US.
- Undocumented aliens/illegal aliens
- a pardon for any offenses by the government.
- amnesty
- process of removing citizenship from a naturalized citizen.
- denaturalization
- a group of officers who patrol the US borders.
- border control
- one who takes or advocates the taking of law enforcement into one's own hands.
- vigilante
- recruiting and transporting people by use of force for the purpose or subjecting them into involuntary acts such as labor.
- human trafficking
- to renounce your allegiance to your country of birth.
- expatriation
- the process of exiting your homeland to go to another.
- emigration
- anyone bore in the US or born to parents who are citizens.
- native-born citizen