CHAPTER 1 AMERICAN CIT
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- hispanic americans
- the fastest-growing ethnic group in the united states.
- latin america
- is where the largest share of immigrants to the united states come from.
- popular sovereignty
- value found in the founding documents of the united states.
- public policy
- course of action taken by a government to achieve community goals.
- civics
- study of the rights and duties of citizens.
- government
- ruling authority for a community, which the right to make and enforce laws.
- dual citizenship
- holding rights in the united states and another country at the same time.
- citizen
- member of a community with certain rights and duties.
- terrorism
- the use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal.
- representative
- type of democracy in which citizens choose smaller group to govern and make laws.
- naturalized citizen
- someone who moves permanently to a new country.
- budget
- plan for collecting and spending a community's money.
- illegal aliens
- non citizens who are living in the united states against the law.
- migration
- mass movement from one place to another.
- migration
- mass movement
- the south
- the most populous region of the united states.
- patriotism
- love of one's country.
- deport
- the forcibly send a person back to his or her country.
- BCIS
- government agency that deals with immigration and citizenship.
- dictatorship
- government controlled by one person or a small group.
- direct
- type of democracy in which all citizens debate and vote all issues.
- terrorism
- use of violence against civilians to achieve a political goal.
- two ways to become a citizen
- by birth or through legal process called naturalization.
- democracy
- it is called a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
- e pluribus unum
- latin phrase meaning "out of many, one"
- spain
- where the first europeans settled permanently in north america in the 1500s.
- deport
- legal process in which a government removes an alien from the country.
- a non automatically american citizen
- if a baby is born in the united states to foreign diplomats
- immigration
- process of moving permanently to a new country.
- alien
- non citizen residing into a country.
- united states citizen
- anyone born or naturalized in the united states.
- lose of citizenship
- when a U.S citizen voluntarily gives it up.