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Flashcards by maeganbrady410, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by maeganbrady410
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| Question | Answer |
| Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| E Pluribus Unum | Out of many, one. |
| Popular sovereignty | Government by consent of the governed. |
| Naturalization | Legal process by which a citizen of one country becomes a citizen of another. |
| Dual citizenship | Citizenship in two countries concurrently. |
| Immigrants | A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| Refugees | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster |
| Melting pot theory | It is particularly used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States. |
| Salad bowl theory | times when newly arrived immigrants do not lose the unique aspects of their cultures like in the melting pot model, instead they retain them. |
| 14th amendment | Defines US citizenship. (most important) |
| government | the governing body of a nation, state, or community |
| autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power |
| Oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution |
| Democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
| Direct democracy | Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide |
| Representative democracy | Representative democracy (also indirect democracy or psephocracy) is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people. |
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