Civics_Ch1_Study-Guide

**Study Questions**
 * Pennsylvania Civics Chapter 1 Citizenship in Democracy**
 * __We the People__****:**
 * 1) Civics is the study of what it means to be a g___ c__
 * 2) People who come to one country from another are i_
 * 3) What is a refugee?
 * 4) What is an alien?
 * 5) Where did the Founding Fathers get the ideas of justice, morality, and equality?
 * 6) Where did our Founders get the idea for a Republic?
 * 7) What was the name of the immigration headquarters that most immigrants came through in the 1900s?
 * 8) Why was there a spike in immigration when this facility opened?
 * 9) Where have most immigrants come from currently? M_ and L A_
 * 10) What is naturalization?
 * 11) Why are YOU a U.S. citizen?
 * 12) How did the first migrants get into North America__?__ _ Land Bridge
 * 13) Why did the Pilgrims come to the colonies?
 * 14) Who “discovered” America since colonization followed him?
 * 15) What is the estimated population of the U.S.?
 * 16) What is your position on illegal immigrant/why?


 * __Being a Good Citizen__****:**
 * 1) Being a productive member of society is c.
 * 2) How does the government make money?
 * 3) What was the most important civic duty as seen by our Founding Fathers?
 * 4) What is the biggest civic responsibility in a democracy?
 * 5) What are 5 qualities of a good citizen?
 * 6) What are 2 symbols of freedom in America?
 * 7) What are 2 ways to honor the flag?
 * 8) How can you show Patriotism?


 * __Values in America__****:**
 * 1) Freedom means the same as _
 * 2) __Fairness means the same as__
 * 3) Having the same job opportunities, same educational choices, same rights, and same treatment under the law is e
 * 4) __What is meant by rule of law?__


 * Styles of Government__****:**
 * 1) What are 2 purposes of government?
 * 2) Why is the U.S. a Republic?
 * 3) The organizations, institutions, and individuals that have political authority g
 * 4) Leaders through fear or force such as Hitler, Stalin, Raul Castro (Cuba), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), and Kim Jong-un is a D_
 * 5) The leaders in Iran who are Islamic clerics that rule based on Islam is a T_


 * __America’s Foundation__****:**
 * 1) British document Magna Carta (year 1215) and the English Bill of Rights (1689) gave the colonists the ideas for l_ g_
 * 2) The Virginia House of Burgesses was an important step in the development of democracy in colonial America because it established a r_ form of government.
 * 3) The Mayflower Compact gave the colonists the idea of s___-g__
 * 4) Judeo-Christian values taught the colonists that all were e in the eyes of G___.__
 * 5) Who founded PA? _ _ …he founded it based on freedom as seen in the C_ of P document.
 * 6) What was the major reason the colonists declared independence? T without r
 * 7) On what date was the Declaration of Independence signed?
 * 8) List the 3 unalienable rights:, _, and the
 * 9) What were 3 aspects of America’s foundation?
 * 10) Which document says that “all men are created equal?”
 * 11) Who wrote this document?
 * 12) Who are the “governed” as in “consent of the governed?”
 * 13) If a consent of the governed is just government, which type did Jefferson think was best?
 * 14) How does the Declaration of Independence show that the nation was built on faith?
 * 15) The Declaration of Independence says people have the right to r againstan u___ gov’t.__


 * American Government__****:**
 * 1) The first U.S. plan for government was the A of C
 * 2) Define a confederation:
 * 3) Why was the Constitution developed?
 * 4) Where was the Constitutional Convention?
 * 5) The Great Compromise solved the biggest argument at the Constitutional Convention by…
 * 6) What did the Federalists support? …Anti-federalists?
 * 7) The main purpose of the //Federalist Papers// was to…
 * 8) Which document created a current system of government?

Back to the Chapter 1 main page