Civics (Midterm Study Guide) Questions With Complete Solutions

Civics (MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE)
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS

civics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the study of the rights and duties of
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citizens


citizen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a community member who is loyal to
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the government and is entitled to protection from it
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government - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the ruling authority for a
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community


public policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a course of government action to
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achieve community goals| |




budget - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a plan for collecting and spending
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money


dictatorship - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a government controlled by one
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person or small group of people
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, democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-government where all citizens
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share in the governing and being governed
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direct democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-all citizens have an equal
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voice


representative democracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-citizens choose a
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small group of people to represent them, make laws, and govern on
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their behalf
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majority rule - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-citizens agree that when
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differences of opinion arise, we will abide by what most people want
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naturalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-legal process of making a non-
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citizen a citizen| |




alien - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a non-citizen
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immigrant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-person who moves permanently to
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a new country
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