Unit One Vocabulary Review

Defines citizenship; guarantees all citizens "equal protection under the law"

• 14th Amendment

• Naturalization

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

A foreign born resident of the United States who has not been naturalized

• Legal Permanent Resident

• Alien

• Law of Blood

• Obligation

a legally recognized subject of a country or state, either native or naturalized

• Immigrant

• Law of Blood

• 14th Amendment

• Citizen

An individual who moves permanently to another country

• Citizen

• Immigrant

• Responsibility

• Obligation

The principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his or her natural parents

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

• Naturalization

• Citizen

The principle that a person's nationality at birth is determined by the territory within which he or she was born

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

• Naturalization

• Citizen

A non-citizen who has been granted authorization to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis

• Legal Permanent Resident

• Law of Blood

• Naturalization

• Selective Service

A legal process to obtain citizenship

• Naturalization

• Legal Permanent Resident

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

Sets of rules that allow people to live together peacefully

• Naturalization

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

• Law

The advantage or benefit of all people in society or in a group

• Law

• Common Good

• Responsiblity

• Obligation