Unit 1 Citizenship and Civic Participation

Match the following

• naturalization

• the process of becoming a US citizen (live here 5 years, pass a test, take an oath)

• 14th Amendment Citizenship Requirements

• this granted Native American citizenship

• civics

• the study of the rights and duties of citizens

• Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

• birth or naturalization

• census

• a population count taken in the US every 10 years

Match the following

• rights

• things that people in a society find good or desirable (ex. freedom)

• voter disenfranchisement

• things we must do as citizens

• values

• taking people's right to vote away

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• prohibited Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens

• duties

• power or privilege held by citizens; freedoms or liberties government must protect

Match the following

• responsibilities

• serving in court; possibly on a trial to determine innocence or guilt

• jury duty

• male citizens must sign up for this when they turn 18

• bureacracy

• things we should do as citizens

• draft/selective service

• giving of your time or money to help others in your community

• volunteerism

• a complex system with a hierarchy, chain of command and many levels

Match the following

• refugee

• a permanent legal residence permit

• immigrant

• a person who is fleeing persecution in their home country to seek asylum in another

• visa

• non-citizens that do not have legal permission to be in the country

• undocumented immigrants

• a person who moves from one country to another permanently

• green card

• a temporary permit to work, go to school or travel in another country

Match the following

• Wet Foot Dry Foot Policy

• a temporary program that protected DREAMers from deportation, allowed for work permit, driver's license and to attend college

• assimilation

• happens when an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group.

  Each group may bring their own culture, but they all melt together to form a new identity, an American identity.

• acculturation

• policy that allowed Cubans to stay if they could get one foot on US soil. If caught in the water they were sent back to Cuba

• DACA

• an ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the large group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture

• separatism

• Each group chooses to remain separate.  The groups coexist, but they do not merge into one identifying culture