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Area in which most Americans live |
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Profession in which most Americans work in |
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Explains the aging of America |
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-the baby boom
-fewer children per family
-longer life expectancy |
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Group that makes up the largest segment of America's population |
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Group that did not come to America by choice |
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Why the population of the United States is diverse |
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| Americans come from different backgrounds |
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What freedom allows us to do in America |
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-work where we want
-choose our own friends
-listen to the music we like |
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Example of service jobs |
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Not considered to be a service job |
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Dramatic rise in births between 1946 and 1964 is known as this |
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Examples of discrimination against African Americans has included |
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-not being allowed to attend schools with whites
-not being allowed to live in neighborhoods with whites
-being kept from voting |
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Why exclusion laws were passed in 1882 and 1907 |
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| to stop immigration from China and Japan |
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What socialization involves |
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| learning the group's rules |
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An example of a market in which buyers and sellers meet face to face |
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3 Forms of government |
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-dictatorship
-monarchy
-democracy |
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3 forms of social institutions |
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-family
-religion
-government |
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Defined as any arrangement of children living with adults who are providing for their needs |
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Example of a constitutional monarchy |
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The US Constitution includes a list of |
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Examples of representatives that citizens elect |
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-city/town council members
-governors
-members of Congress |
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| some of the rights of citizens |
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Duties of citizens of the United States include |
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-obeying laws
-serving on a jury or as a witness
-defending the nation |
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You are legally an American citizen if you were |
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-born in the US or its territories
-naturalized
-under the age of eighteen when your parents were naturalized |
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Not a right but a duty as a citizen |
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Why the Constitutional Convention gathered |
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| to strengthen central government |
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Many delegates were afraid that a strong central government would |
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The New Jersey Plan included |
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| equal votes for each state |
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Under the Constitution the President has |
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| settle conflicts among states |
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3 reasons why Federalists supported a strong national government |
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-provide protection
-guarantee citizens' rights
-regulate trade |
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At first the Anti-Federalists were troubled because the Constitution did not include a |
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Amount of states that finally ratified the Constitution |
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NOT a goal of our Constitution |
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| to protect against taxation |
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3 factors that limit the power of central government |
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- federalism
-checks and balances
-separation of power |
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Executive power was given to |
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The Anti-Federalists wanted the constitution to include a |
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The first 3 articles of the Constitution describe the |
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Power that the Constitution gives to the Congress but does not deny to states are |
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All the amendments included in the Constitution were proposed by |
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James Madison urged Congress to prepare a bill of rights quickly to |
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The First Amendment protects |
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Freedom of petition is the right to |
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| ask a government official for help |
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The Miranda warning explains a person;s rights under the |
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The Ninth Amendment states that citizen's rights |
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| are not limited to those of the Constitution |
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In the Tinker case, the Supreme Court ruled that students |
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How many individual freedoms does the First Amendment protect |
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Judges in our nation's court interpret the meaning of citizens' |
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The Dred Scott decision interpreted the Constitution as allowing |
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The Fourteenth Amendment |
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| gave African Americans citizenship |
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The Fourteenth Amendment |
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| gave African Americans citizenship |
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The Twenty-Fourth Amendment ended |
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What group pushed for the Ninteenth Amendment |
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What might be an argument behind the Twenty-Sixth Amendment |
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| "If you are old enough to fight, you are old enough to vote" |
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Tensions grew between the northern and southern states in the 1800's over |
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-power in Congress
-slaves in population count
-abolishing slavery |
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Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that segregation was legal as long as |
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| facilities for blacks and whites were of equal quality |
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The Fourteenth Amendment is called the second Bill of Rights because it |
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| gave citizenship to African Americans |
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Examples of peoples' basic wants |
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three basic factors of production |
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To produce goods and services, labor, land, and capital combine in a |
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An example of scarcity |
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| Japan can't grow enough food |
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Influences how a society makes the three basic economic decisions |
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How technology has affected the economy of the United States |
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| it has reduced production cost |
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Economic decision that a farmer might make |
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-what crop to grow
-whether to use pesticides
-what kind of equipment to use |
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Hunters probably hunt the same game by the same methods in a |
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The government usually owns important parts of the economy in a |
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Today, most countries have a |
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Competition and profit seeking play a large role in |
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Limited resources in comparison to people's wants is known as |
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An example of capital when used to produce goods and services |
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In a circular flow of economic activity, producers need the following three resources to create goods |
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| May affect the demand of a product |
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-advertising
-fashion styles
-popularity
-price |
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Payment that producers exchange for the use of labor |
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Entrepreneaurs are motivated to start businesses in order to |
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Examples of how businesses are owned in our economy |
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-sole proprietorship
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-corporations |
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Examples of NOT sevice oriented businesses |
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-autmobile manufacturer
-farmers |
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Method goveernments use to correct economic problems |
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| run businesses for the common good |
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Government decision about the money it spends and collects |
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The most basic purpose for having laws |
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Criminal laws are laws that |
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| tell which acts are crimes |
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Example of NOT a crime |
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An example of a behavior that may not be illegal everywhere is |
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Taking something of value from someone sometimes without using violence |
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An example of a crime against the government |
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| a formal charge against a person accused of a crime |
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A person can be arrested if |
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NOT a requirement for voting in the general election |
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| being a member of a political party |
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Presidential elections are held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in... |
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Why do people hand out leaflets about candidates before an election |
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| to give voters information |
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Where do candidates get most of the money to run for office |
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A campaign organization includes |
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-the candidate
-speechwriters
-fundraisers |
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The advantage an incumbent has in an election |
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Why are television and newspaper ads not the best sources of information about candidates |
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| They usually give very few real facts about the candidates |
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Which member of an election campaign deals with the media |
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| the campaign press secretary |
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How is the number of electors determined for each state |
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| It is equal to the number of members in Congress in that state |
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