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| Question | Answer |
| Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| E Pluribus Unum | Out of many, one. Meaning everyone is diverse but come together to make a single, strong nation. |
| Popular Sovereignty | government by consent of the governed |
| Naturalization | A legal process to become a US citizen |
| Dual citizenship | they enjoy rights in the US and in another country |
| Immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
| refugees | people who are forced to flee their country in order to escape war |
| Melting pot theory | metaphor that all cultures melt together to form 1 nation |
| salad bowl theory | used to describe the way how people from every culture are completely different but they come together in their own way to make 1 nation |
| 14th amendment | citizenship rights |
| government | ruling authority for a community or society |
| autocracy | rule by self/one ex. dictatorship, monarchy |
| Oligarchy | rule by a few people |
| Democracy | ruled by the people |
| direct democracy | all citizens met to debate government matters and vote first-hand |
| representative democracy | citizens choose a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf |
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