2024 Civics Semester Exam

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Foreign-born people who move permanently to a new country are called __________.

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Immigrants

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About __________ percent of all the people now living in the U.S. are descended from families who once lived in another country.

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98

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When do scholars believe people first migrated to the land that is now the United States?

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20,000 years ago

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When did people from Europe begin coming to North America?

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Beginning in the 1600s.

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Where did Americans start moving to in the "mid-1800s"?

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To the city for better paying jobs.

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What are "service jobs"? Options: Teaching, programming computers, providing healthcare, and practicing law., jobs that only immigrants can work, jobs that only Americans can work, all of the above

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Teaching, programming computers, providing healthcare, and practicing law.

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What is a group of people who share a common national, cultural, or racial background? Options: Cultural Sect, Diversity, Ethnic Group, all of the above

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Ethnic Group

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Which of the following mean "rule by the people"? Theocracy, Democracy, Feudalism, Jainism

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Democracy

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Any organization that has the power to make and carry out laws for the people in the community is a __________.

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Government

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What do laws serve to prevent? Options: conflicts between individuals, conflicts between groups, conflicts between nations, all of the above

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all of the above