Citizenship Vocabulary Quiz

A person with certain rights and duties under a government (official member of a country).

• Citizen

• Alien

• Civics

• Right

The study of the rights and duties of citizenship

• Citizen

• Rights

• Duties

• Civics

Something that you HAVE to do

• Responsibility

• Right

• Duty

Something you SHOULD do

• Duty

• Responsibility

• Right

The ruling authority for a community

• Theocracy

• Government

• Social Contract

• Oligarchy

An agreement to give up some freedoms in exchange for protection from the government

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Popular Sovereignty

• Social Contract

A person who moves to a country with the intention of becoming a citizen

• Alien

• Immigrant

• Monarch

• Naturalize

The idea that government power/authority comes from the people

• Popular Sovereignty

• Social Contract

• Naturalization

• Civics

the process of becoming a citizen

• Immigration

• Naturalization

• Citizenship

• Social Contract

Type of government ruled by one person with almost total control

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship