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LE1-C2S1T3pg47-49 Instructor Guide – Attaining Citizenship
Purpose
This lesson explains how people become
U.S. citizens and how citizenship is
granted in the United States.
1.
Explain three methods of becoming a citizen.
2.
Describe the laws that regulate immigration.
3.
List the standards for becoming a citizen.
4.
Apply a standard to deciding who should be
able to immigrate to or become a citizen of
the United States.
CPS Key Word Questions (1-4)
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____________
Naturalization - the process by which citizens
of another country can become citizens of the
United States.
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_____
Alien - someone or something that belongs to
a different country, race, group, or culture.

_______
Jus Soli - meaning “Law of the Soil.” A person
becomes a citizen by virtue of being born in
the United States.
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____________
Jus Sanguinis - meaning “Law of the Blood.”
If one or both of the parents are American
citizens, the children have the right to
American citizenship.
CPS Lesson Questions (1-2)
How much do you already know about what it
takes to become a U.S. citizen?
A. Expert – I have done a lot of learning in this area
already.
B. Above average – I have learned some information
about U.S. citizenship.
C. Moderate – I know a little about this topic.
D. Rookie – I am a blank slate… but ready to learn.
True or False:
The qualifications for U.S. citizenship have
remained the same for over 200 years.
A. True
B. False
List 2-3 things you
already know about
obtaining U.S.
citizenship.
(Use CPS “Pick a Student” for this question)
Read the poem, The New Colossus.
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Do you recognize any part of the poem?
What does the poem mean to you?
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The qualifications for U.S. citizenship have changed
as this country has matured.

According to the fourteenth amendment, children
born in the United States, except those of foreign
automatically citizens
ambassadors, are __________________.

The conferring of citizenship by “jus sanguinis”
applies to all children born to United States citizens,
either male or female.

Citizens of other nations who seek citizenship in the
United States can do so through a process called
naturalization.
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Prospective citizens must then renounce the citizenship
of their former country and swear an oath of allegiance
to the Constitution and to the laws of the United States.

Collective naturalization is a process whereby a group of
individuals may become United States citizens without
going through the normal process.
CPS Lesson Question (3)
According to what amendment can children born
in the United States, except those of foreign
ambassadors, automatically become citizens?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
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Congress decides who this country will admit, under
what conditions we will admit them, and since 1924,
the number of persons who can immigrate into the
United States per year.

Undocumented aliens are people
who enter into and remain in the
United States in violation of
immigration laws.
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The 1952 McCarren-Walter Immigration and
Nationality Act established the qualifications
for United States citizenship.
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To obtain citizenship, one must:
1. File a petition.
2. Attend an Immigration and Naturalization Service
Hearing with two witnesses.
3. Attend a final hearing to have an official
administer the oath of citizenship.
CPS Lesson Question (4)
Who decides the number of persons who can
immigrate into the United States per year?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The President
The Supreme Court
Congress
The Secretary of State
List the 2-3 most
important things
you learned in
this lesson.
Why are they
important to you?
(Use CPS “Pick a Student” for this question)
Images in this lesson were taken from:
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 Marine Corps Combat Camera
 MCJROTC Student Text