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immigration vocab!
social studies vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| member of a nation | citizen |
| the study of what it means to be a U.S citizen | civics |
| an authority that acts on the behalf of a group of people | government |
| a person who comes to a nation to settle as a permanent resident | immigrant |
| a limit on the number of immigrants who may enter a country | quota |
| a person who flees persecution in his or her homeland and wants to seek safety | refugee |
| an american born as a citizen of the U.S | native born |
| a document that allows people from one country to visit another country | visa |
| a residental commnity near a large city | suburb |
| a large city or town | urban |
| a region of farms or small towns | rural |
| the movement of people from region to region | migration |
| a U.S region made up of states in the South and West | sunbelt |
| a person who lives in a nation but is not a citizen of that nation | alien |
| to force a person to leave another nation such as an illegal alien | deport |
| a legal process by which aliens become citizens | naturalization |
| an offical count of the number of people in a country | census |
| the annual number of live births per 1,000 members of a population | birthrate |
| the annual number of deaths per 1,000 members of a population | death rate |
| island where immigrants were processed in NYC | Ellis Island |
| island in Los Angeles where immigrants were provessed | Angel Island |