1. Civics and Citizenship
1. What is Civics?
2. Define a citizen?
3. What is government?
4. Name three reasons why we need government?
5. What are the three levels of government in our country?
6. This is the name given to a government where the power resides in the people?
7. What are the two types of democracies?
8. What form of government is a monarchy?
9. In which form of government does a single person or small group hold all the power?
10. This is a government system that is based on religious rule?
11. What is the approximate population of the United States?
12. How did our population grow so quickly from our beginning?
13. What are the two ways in which a person can become a citizen of the US?
14. Describe the two ways in which birth makes a person a citizen?
15. What is a dual citizen?
16. What are the requirements to be naturalized?
17. This is a person who is not a citizen, but has permission to be in the United States?
18. This term applies to someone who is not a citizen, has permission to be here, and plans to live here permanently?
19. This is the official government documentation that gives a non-citizen permission to be here?
20. In what ways are legal non-citizens different from citizens?
21. In what ways are they the same as citizens?
22. What do you call someone who is not a citizen and does not have permission to be in the country?
23. In what ways are their lives restricted?
24. What could possibly happen to them if found here illegally?
25. These are things that all citizens are required to do?
26. These are things that all citizens should do?
27. Name the five basic requirements of all citizens?
27. What could happen to someone who does not follow one or more of these requirements?
28. Name some responsibilities of citizens?
29. Give several examples of written documents that contain our rights?
30. What is the Census?
31. How often is a Census completed?
32. Why did many people become fearful of immigrants beginning in the 1800’s?
33. How is immigration to the United States controlled today?
34. What is the fastest growing part of the U.S. population?
35. What was the Proclamation of 1763?
36. Why was it decreed by the British King?
37. How did the colonists react to the Proclamation of 1763?
38. To pay for the large British Army in America, the British government began to do what?
39. How did local merchants react to this new policy by the British?
40. What was the Stamp Act?
41. What did the Quartering Act do?
42. What was the Townshend Acts?
43. What was the Boston Massacre?
44. What was the Boston Tea party and why did it occur?
45. After the Tea Party what new law did the British pass?
46. Why did the colonists in Boston have such a strong reaction to this law?
47. What were Committees of Correspondence?
48. Some colonists began to ready themselves to fight. What were these local groups called?