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FlashCards por Justin Best, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Justin Best
quase 9 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| civics | study of citizenship and government |
| E pluribus unum | one of many |
| melting pot theory | a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous |
| salad bowl theory | there are times when newly arrived immigrants do not lose the unique aspects of their cultures like in the melting pot model, instead they retain them. |
| popular sovereignty | the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives |
| naturalization | is the process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act |
| alien | a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living. |
| refugees | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
| immigrant | a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| fourteenth amendment | to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. |
| government | the governing body of a nation, state, or community. |
| autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. |
| dictatorship | government by a dictator. |
| monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head. |
| 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. |
| anarchy | a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. |
| totalitarianism | absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. |
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