Ch 3 Word Wall

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Immigrants

People moving into a country who plan to stay.

Ethnic Groups

Members of an Ethnic Group have a common national, cultural, and

racial background.

Values

The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions.

INSTITUTIONS!Institutions- are the key practices, relationships, and organizations in society.

Example: The most important institution of the USA is the family.

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTYTHE IDEA THAT THE GOVERNMENT RECEIVES THEIR

POWER FROM THE PEOPLE.

CITIZENSHIPCitizenship is the rights and

duties of a citizen

Civics

Civics-Study of the duties and rights of a citizen.

Members of a community who owe loyalty to a government and in return have protection from that government

CitizenCitizen

Government!!!

The ruling authority for a community.

NaturalizationA legal process to obtain

citizenshipOne of the ways is to take

a citizenship exam. If you qualify then you go to a special ceremony, and you are considered

naturalized.

Aliens

A foreigner who lives in the United States and doesn’t have citizenship

Not this kind of alien

Refugee

People who flee a country to escape danger from a foreign land.

Responsibilities

As a citizen of the U.S, doing what should be done to help others.

Duties

Americans have legal duties, set by the law.

TOLERANCE

Tolerance is accepting and respecting others regardless of their differences in religion, race, and political matters.

Welfare Welfare

The health, prosperity, and happiness of

others

Volunteerism-n. The practice of offering your time and services without receiving any payment.

Volunteerism

WHY Is this IMPORTANT?

Some people need help,But do not have the money

to pay for it.

PUBLIC POLICY

Decisions and actions government takes to fix the problems in the community.

Direct Democracy

A system of government in which people govern themselves. Direct democracy is

practical for countries with small populations, so that they make their own

decisions.

Representative Democracy…

•A Representative Democracy is when the public decides to have a group of people represent them. •The Representatives Jobs are to make laws on behalf of the people.

Constitutional Monarchy

MonarchyMonarchy is limited in is limited in which the power of the which the power of the hereditary ruler is limited by hereditary ruler is limited by the country's constitution the country's constitution and laws.and laws.

•In a modern In a modern monarchy monarchy rulers power is limited by the rulers power is limited by the country’s constitutional laws.country’s constitutional laws.• In a In a constitutional constitutional monarchymonarchy, the monarch , the monarch also shares power with a also shares power with a constitutionally organize constitutionally organize government.government.

MAJORITY RULEDemocracy works on the principle of majority rule. This means that when 2 candidates from different political parties participate in a free and fair election, the candidate that receives more than half the votes wins the election. This being said, majority rule favors the most citizens and everyone keeps their basic rights as equal members of society.

Authoritarian Regime

• (Aw-thahr-uh-tehr-ee-uhn)

• Power held by a person or a group which is inherited and not accountable to the people.

OROR

TotalitarianismIn a totalitarian

state, the government

controls almost all aspects of life.

• Oligarchy is governed by a few people with despotic power for corrupt or selfish purposes.

Oligarchy

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin,

Saddam Hussein, and

Howell Raines are

some famous autocratic leaders.

AUTOCRACY

A system of government in which a single person has absolute power, and can do whatever they want.

A body of ideas about life and society.

Socialism

Socialism is a system in which society, either directly or indirectly through the government, controls all aspects of the economy.

Communism

•A one-party system of government based on the idea of state ownership

and direction of property and industry.•Karl Marx thought we should share and

be fair so no one was in poverty.

Karl Marx

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