M1L5 Practice

Some of the rights granted to all U.S. citizens include all of the following except

• Property ownership

• The ability to get a passport.

• The ability to run for office.

• Voting.

In ancient Athens, Greece, citizenship was generally limited to those people who

• Had been born in Athens.

• Were adult males.

• Were property owners.

• Were war veterans.

Five years ago, Yuri, age 9, lived in Russia. Then he and his family moved to the United States and became legal residents. How can Yuri and his family become citizens of the United States?

• By having a senator make them citizens.

• By asking a congressperson to declare them citizens.

• By writing a letter to the president asking to be declared citizens.

• By passing a citizenship test and taking an oath.

A requirement for becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen is

• Having been born in the United States.

• Taking an oath of allegiance to the United States.

• Reciting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

• Singing the national anthem.

The process by which a person becomes a U.S. citizen is referred to as

• Immigration

• Citizenship

• Naturalization

• Legalization

Read the following quote from the poem on the Statue of Liberty, then answer the following question:

 

...'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!' -Emma Lazarus

An American who holds the ideals expressed by the poem would most likely favor

• Allowing only highly educated immigrants to enter the United States.

• Using troops to stop immigration from Mexico.

• Maintaining a policy of open immigration.

• Penalizing businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

Over the past twenty years, an objective of the United States immigration policy has been to

• Reduce the number of illegal immigrants.

• Return to an open immigration policy.

• Keep out immigrants from former communist nations.

• Encourage emigration from Western Europe.

Which statement about immigration to the United States is most accurate?

• Most immigration to the United States was completed by 1900.

• Immigrants from northern and western Europe have had the most problems in being assimilated into United States society.

• Immigration has been a result of the circumstances abroad as well as in the United States.

• Immigration has had little effect in American culture.

Recent efforts to decrease illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico have greatly concerned the Mexican government mainly because the success of such efforts has

• Disrupted the Mexican family structure.

• Lowered the price for Mexican exports to the United States.

• Increased the pressure on the Mexican economy.

• Reduced United States tourism to Mexico.

What is the primary reason that increasing numbers of Latin American citizens have immigrated to the United States over the last three decades?

• Desire for religious freedom.

• Hope for economic opportunities.

• Fear of natural disasters.

• Escape from the threat of communism.