Describe the impact of improvements in technology and transportation on American citizens.
Choose one of the citizen’s personal responsibilities presented in the lesson. Use complete sentences to explain why it is especially important for citizens to fulfill the responsibility you selected.
The rights to vote, petition, and assembly are all examples of which type of citizens’ rights?
Why is it important for students to learn that private citizens such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton (women’s right to vote), William Lloyd Garrison (abolition of slavery), and Martin Luther King, Jr. (equal rights for African Americans) have made a positive difference in American society?
One of the economic rights that Americans enjoy is the right to become an entrepreneur. In a paragraph of not less than five sentences, tell why you think it is important for people to be free to open their own businesses. Why is it good for the entrepreneur? Why is it good for our nation as a whole?
E-democracy represents the use of information and communication technologies, such as the Internet and smart phones, to enable more active citizen participation in government decisions.Using information from the situation below, write a paragraph telling how websites, blogs, videos, webcams, and other Internet tools can help citizens share their points of view, “discuss” the options, and make the best decision for their town.At the edge of town near Littleton, a large field is for sale. The town council is considering whether or not to buy the field and build a swimming and diving center for the town. However, a company in a nearby city wants the town council to pay part of the cost of buying the property for a factory. Unemployment has been growing in Littleton and the town could use the jobs. Finally, an environmental group wants the council to buy the field for nature paths and bike trails and as a safe habitat for the state bird.
All of the following are current issues in civics EXCEPT:
In the ancient world, all of the following were characteristics of common citizens EXCEPT:
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were involved in the push for __________.
Notable American protests include those for __________ and those against __________.
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