What Does It Mean To Be An American?

What is a citizen?

• a legal member of a state and/or country

• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

• belonging to a foreign country or nation

• a foreign national who is living without authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen

What is meant by the idea of the American Dream?

• Ideas, Not Ethnicity. Since the United States was founded in the 18th century, Americans have defined themselves not by their racial, religious, and ethnic identity but by their common values and belief in individual freedom.

• the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.

• Liberty, self-government, equality, individualism, diversity, and unity

• a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a legislature.

What is meant by the concept of the American Ideal?

• the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative

• liberty, self-government, equality, individualism, diversity, and unity

• a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a legislature.

• Ideas, Not Ethnicity. Since the United States was founded in the 18th century, Americans have defined themselves not by their racial, religious, and ethnic identity but by their common values and belief in individual freedom.

What are examples of American values?

• Liberty, self-government, equality, individualism, diversity, and unity

• the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative

• Ideas, Not Ethnicity. Since the United States was founded in the 18th century, Americans have defined themselves not by their racial, religious, and ethnic identity but by their common values and belief in individual freedom.

• a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a legislature.

Define democracy.

• Liberty, self-government, equality, individualism, diversity, and unity

• a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a legislature.

• the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative

• Ideas, Not Ethnicity. Since the United States was founded in the 18th century, Americans have defined themselves not by their racial, religious, and ethnic identity but by their common values and belief in individual freedom.