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Melissa civ. unit 1
Stack #47867
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| latin word that means citizenship | civitas |
| what is civics? | the study of what it means to be a citizen |
| census is a latin word that literally means________. | register of income, wealth, or property |
| what is the definition of census? | an official count taken to determine the number of people in an area |
| was the US the first country to use a census? | NO!!! |
| what two countries used a census before the US? | Ancient Rome and Germany |
| Why did Ancient Rome use a census? | men had to report their families, wives, slaves, and wealth |
| Why did Germany use a census? | the gov used it to target Jewish people, catholics, and gypsies |
| How often is the US census taken? | every 10 years |
| what are the US territories? | the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands. |
| what can the census tell us? | how many children are in each family, their ages, where they go to school, if and where people move and how long they live their, types of homes they live in, if they own or rent their home, and the rate of population growth in the US. |
| how much of an undertaking is the census? | short of going to war, it is the government's biggest undertaking |
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