Civic Midterm Study Guide

Civic Vocabulary

Match the following

• Demographics

• The Study of characteristics of human populations

• Quota

• A Legal Member of a country

• Immigrants

• People who come to a country to settle as permanent residents

• Civics

• The study of what is means to be a U.S. Citizen

• Citizen

• Set number, such as for immigrants who may enter a country in a year

Civic Vocabulary

Match the following

• Sovereignty

• A form of government in which the people of a counrty eiher rule directly or through elected representatives

• Direct Democracy

• Goverment by consent of the governed

• Retification

• Approval by a formal vote

• Democracy

• A form of government in which the people elect representatives to carry on the work of government for them

• Representative Democracy

• A form of government in which all the people meet together at one place to make laws and decide what actions to take

Civic Vocabulary

Match the following

• Delegated powers

• Powers set aside by the U.S. Constitution for the states or for the people

• Checks and balances

• A refusal by the president or a governor to sign a bill

• Concurrent powers

• Powers given to the federal government by the Constitution

• Veto

• A system in which the powers of government are balanced among different branches so that each branch can check, or limit, the power of the other branches.

• Reserved powers

• Powers shared by the federal government and the states

Civics Vocabulary

Match the following

• Self-incrimination

• The right to vote

• Jury Duty

• Testifying against oneself

• Rationed

• Serving on a jury

• Bill of Rights

• Limited by law to a certain amount per household

• Suffrage

• The first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution, which set forth basic rights guaranteed to all Americans

Civics Vocabulary

Match the following

• Caucuses

• Consisting of two houses, as in a lawmaking body

• Gerrymandering

• The process of drawing congressional district lines to favor a political party

• Bicameral Legislation

• To charge a government official with misconduct

• Treason

• An act that betrays and endangers one's country

• Impeach

• Meetings of party leaders to determine party policy or to choose the party's candidates for public office

Why do we study civics?​ ​ (a)  

• Civics is the study of the rights and obligations
• A legal member of a country
• The study of characteristics of human populations
• People who come to a country to settle as permanen

What are the two rights of everyone living in the United States?

SELECT TWO ANSWERS !!!

• Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of Religion

• Freedom of Mental

• Freedom of Sickness

• Freedom of Protection

What are the United States' three basic values?

• Liberty, Equality and Justice

• Liberty, Mountains, Emotions

• Emotions, Court, Justice

• Rights, Myself, Mind

What are three ways a population can grow?

SELECT THREE ANSWERS !!!

• Natural Increase

• Natural Decrease

• Adding new Territory

• Immigraton

• Lottery

What are four ways in which the American population is changing?

SELECT FOUR ANSWERS !!!

• Changing households

• Changing women's roles

• Older population

• more diverse population

• Changing your attitudes