Unit 4 Test

Question 1

What are the 3 tests used by the SCOTUS to determine whether or not the right of equal protection is being violated

Answer 1

Rational basis test, suspect classification, fundamental rights

Question 2

Racial Discrimination

Answer 2

Discrimination on a certain race

Question 3

Rational basis test

Answer 3

Classification reasonably related to an acceptable government goal (age limit on drivers license)

Question 4

Suspect classification

Answer 4

Made on the basis of race or national origin (jim crow laws)

Question 5

What is affirmative action?

Answer 5

Favors minorities and women

Question 6

Fundamental rights

Answer 6

Rights at the heart of the American system (voting)

Question 7

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 7

Separate but equal is okay

Question 8

Equal protection

Answer 8

Everyone gets equal legal protection

Question 9

What ruling did the court make in brown v board

Answer 9

Sperate but equal in schools is not okay

Question 10

What are fundamental rights and who has them

Answer 10

Basic rights, everyone that lives in the United states

Question 11

Who is in control of immigration?

Answer 11

Congress

Question 12

Legal Immigrants of the US are called ______ before they are naturalized

Answer 12

Resident alien

Question 13

What is naturalization?

Answer 13

Becoming a United states citizen

Question 14

Which category of aliens is someone who enters the country without use of passport or entry permit?

Answer 14

Illegal Alien

Question 15

What is an Alien?

Answer 15

In the country but not living there

Question 16

What is an immigrant?

Answer 16

Someone who goes to a country with intent on staying there.

Question 17

Which category of aliens is someone who lives in the US but is a citizen of another country at war with the United States?

Answer 17

Enemy Alien

Question 18

What protection enemy aliens have

Answer 18

Life liberty and propety

Question 19

What is someone who lives in the United States permanently called?

Answer 19

Resident Alien

Question 20

Does someone who live in the US permenantly have to become a citizen

Answer 20

No

Question 21

Someone who lives in the US for a short period of time (examples)

Answer 21

Athletes, business, vacation

Question 22

Is someone who comes to live in the US for a short period of time and immigrant?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

Someone trying to escape hardship

Answer 23

Refugee

Question 24

What does it mean to be an expat?

Answer 24

Someone who willingly gives up their citizenship

Question 25

Law of the Soil

Answer 25

Jus Soli

Question 26

What are the exceptions of the law of soil

Answer 26

You were born on a foreign ship in US waters, family member is a diplomat (in the US from France)

Question 26

What is the law of the blood?

Answer 26

US Sanguinis

Question 27

What does the law of the blood mean?

Answer 27

If at least one of your parents is a US citizen and you are born outside of the US, you are still a citizen

Question 28

Who was Dred Scott

Answer 28

Slave, sued for his freedom

Question 29

2 Rulings of Dred Scott Case

Answer 29

He was not a citizen of the US, Congress can't ban slavery in the territories

Question 30

Which amendment would overturn Dred Scott?

Answer 30

14th

Question 31

How can you lose your citizenship?

Answer 31

Treason, Expatriation, De-Naturalization (fraud during process)

Question 32

What is the only part of the gov. That can give and take away citizenship?

Answer 32

Federal Government

Question 33

What are the responsibilities of citizens

Answer 33

Vote, be involved, be informed

Question 34

When we naturalize a group of people at once, what is it called?

Answer 34

Collective Naturalization

Question 35

What happens if you are found guilty of fraud during citizenship

Answer 35

De-Naturalization

Question 36

If you want to be a citizen of the United States, what do you have to do?

Answer 36

Maintain good moral character, entry legally, support the US gov., pass the civics test, pass knowledge test

Question 37

Renounce your loyalty to your former country

Answer 37

When you take the oath to another country