Geography 7 - Lesson 1.9 - 1.10 Citizenship/History Basics

a legal member of a country

• citizen
• immigrant
• tourist
• member

the legal process for becoming a U.S. citizen

• Submitting Form I-130

• naturalization

• Attending a citizenship ceremony

• civics

participating in activities having to do with a person's government, society, and community

• Community work

• Political apathy
• Civic life

• Government life

the process of a society becoming more democratic

• Authoritarianism
• Totalitarianism
• Oligarchy
• Democratization

a line marked off with a series of events and dates

• chronology
• timeline
• schedule
• calendar

a list of events in the order in which they occur

• chronology

• continuity

• artifact

• timeline

a length of time in history signaled out because of a specific set of events or developments that happened during that time (choose 2)

• Period
• Epoch
• Phase
• Era

the time before people invented writing and could begin to record events

• History
• Modern Era
• Ancient Civilizations
• Prehistory

information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event

• Secondary source
• Primary source
• Tertiary source
• Historical document

an object made by a human being , such as a tool or weapon

• relic
• artifact
• fossil
• sculpture