Civics & Economics Chapter 1 Vocab – Flashcards
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White collar
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Name given to those who worked in offices or management
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Blue collar
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Name given to those who worked in factories
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Values
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Broad ideas about what is good or desirable and are shared by people in society (Ex: Freedom)
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Civics
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The study of rights and duties of citizens
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Citizenship
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Rights and duties of members of a state
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E Pluribus Unum
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Latin phrase meaning "out of many; one"
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Diverse
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Different
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Ethnic
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Relating to races or groups of people who share common traits and customs
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Service Economy
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Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product
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Latinos
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A person of Latin American descent
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Popular Sovereignty
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The notion that power lies with the people
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Institutions
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Sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society
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Naturalization
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A legal process to obtain citizenship
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Alien
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A noncitizen
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Immigrant
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A person who moves permanently to a new country
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USCIS
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An agency of the national government that is in charge of immigration and citizenship
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Oath of Allegiance
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A pledge stating that you will be loyal to the US
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Denaturalization
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The loss of citizenship through fraud or deception during the naturalization process
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Expatriation
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Giving up one's citizenship by leaving one's native country to live in a foreign country
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Deport
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To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country
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Refugee
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Person who has willingly left his or her home to escape war, famine, or other disaster
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Government
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The ruling authority for a community
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Thomas Hobbes
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An English political thinker who believed that without government, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, an short"
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Public Policy
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The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem
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Budget
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A plan for making and spending money
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National Government
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Highest level of authority over that country's citizens and can make any laws they feel will benefit the country
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State government
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Decides matters for the people in that state
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Local Government
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Closest level to Americans, in charge of schools
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Democracy
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A government in which citizens hold the power to rule
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Direct democracy
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A form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand
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Representative Democracy
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A government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf
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Republic
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A representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers
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Monarchy
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A government with a hereditary, single leader
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Majority Rule
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Political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Prompted the idea of majority rule
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Authoritarian
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A government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power
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Absolute Monarchy
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A monarch has complete power over his/her people
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Dictatorship
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A form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator
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Totalitarian
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A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives
