Citizenship & Civil Rights

One who owes allegiance to the U.S.

• Citizen

• Alien

• Immigrant

• Naturalization

A citizen of a foreign state who lives in this country.

• Citizen

• Alien

• Immigrant

• Naturalization

The legal process by which a person becomes a U.S. citizen.

• Immigration

• Naturalization

• Refugee

• Defacto

Citizenship is determined by place of birth.

• Jus Soil

• Immigration

• Naturalization

• Equal Protection

Citizenship at birth may also be determined by percentage to whom one is born.

• jus sanguines

• jus soil

• immigration

• alien

Aliens who are permitted as permanent residents.

• Alien

• Immigrant

• Citizen

• Refugee

One who seeks protection from war, persecution or other danger.

• Refugee

• Alien

• Immigrant

• Defacto

The process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another.

• assimilation

• defect

• equal protection

• discrimination

Public lands set aside by the Government for use by Native American Tribes

• Reservation

• Defacto

• jus soil

• equal protection

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

• discrimination

• jus soil

• immigrant

• equal protection