Civics Chapter 14 Test

Name

1. Giving up one’s citizenship by leaving to live in a foreign country

• self incrimination
• expatriation
• double jeopardy

2. A person from a foreign country who expects to stay in the United States for a short, specified period of time

• illegal alien
• refugee
• non-resident alien

3. Latin for “law of the soil” which grants citizenship to nearly all people born in a country

• Jus sanguinis
• Jus sansoli
• Jus soli

4. Latin for “law of blood” where citizenship is granted on the basis of the of the citizenship of one’s parents

• Jus sanguinis
• Jus sansoli
• Jus soli

5. The retrial of a person who was acquitted in a previous trial for the same crime

• rational basis test
• double jeopardy
• self-incrimination

6. A policy which held that if facilities for different races were equal, they could be _________________.

• rational basis test
• separate but equal doctrine
• self-incrimination

7. people fleeing to escape persecution or danger

• illegal alien
• non-resident alien
• refugee

8. Affirmative action is used by a Court to determine whether a state law is reasonably related to an acceptable goal of the government.

• True
• False

9. Testifying against oneself is known as self-incrimination and is part of the 4th Amendment.

• True
• False