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Ohio Chapter 2
Unit 2- Civic Skills for Ohio Citizens
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sue | legal proceedings against a person or institution |
| prohibit | to forbid something by law |
| guarantee | a formal promise or assurance |
| violate | to break a rule or formal agreement |
| right | legal freedom given to all citizens |
| citizen | anyone who was born in the United States, has a parent who is a U.S. citizen or has been naturalized |
| natural rights | Writes one has just by existing period examples include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness |
| responsibilities | Civic duties a citizen should do or has to do |
| jury duty | the responsibility to act as a member of a jury in court |
| evaluate | form an idea from information |
| analyze | examine information in detail |
| bias | when a source leans towards one opinion or another unfairly |
| author | the creator or writer of a source |
| Place and time | the location and time that a source was created |
| audience | the people for whom the source was intentionally made |
| reason | the reason a source was made |
| the main idea | the main idea of a source |
| entrepreneur | a person who operates a business |
| economics | the study of how we make choices to fulfill our months and needs |
| need | something that one needs to survive, such as water, food, and shelter |
| want | something that one doesn't need to survive but would like to have |
| good | something one can physically buy |
| service | the work one pays for someone to do something |
| risk | the chance and entrepreneur may lose money instead of make money |
| profit | grows for one's business |
| supply | how much of something that someone has produced |
| demand | how much of something people want |
| budget | a plan for how you will spend your resources |
| Financial budgets | budgets related to money |
| savings | when one puts aside part of their money to be saved for later |
| chart | a visual representation of information |
| graph | a drawing that consists of lines and numbers related to one another |
| bar graph | a graph that shows data in bars that match the value they represent |
| pie graph | a graph that shows slices that represent values |
| naturalization | naturalization a process by which an immigrant can gain citizenship |
| APART Test | The test Ohio as America uses to decide whether a source is trustworthy or not |