Unit 1 Vocabulary Citizenship

a person who legally belongs to a country and has the rights and protection of that country.

• Citizen

• Alien

• Legal Permanent Resident

• Law of soil

The things that benefit all members of a community

• Law of blood

• Selective Service

• Common Good

• Responsibility

An individual who moves permanently to a new country

• legal permanent resident

• citizen

• alien

• immigrant

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

• 14th Amendment

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

• Responsibility

A system by which men ages 18 through 25 register with the U.S. government for military service

• Selective Service

• Law of Soil

• Citizen

• 14th Amendment

Something a person is required to do such as pay taxes, obey laws, serve on a jury and males must register for selective service.

• Responsibility

• Naturalization

• Citizenship

• Obligation

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

• Obligation

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

• Legal Permanent Resident

• Citizen

• Immigrant

• Alien

something a person should do such as voting, running for office, attending civic meetings

• Immigrant

• Responsibility

• Obligation

• Selective Service

The legal process of how an immigrant becomes a citizen

• Law of Blood

• Law of Soil

• Naturalization

• 14th Amendment