The U.S. federal government consists of three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Each one has a distinct role, ensuring a balance of power that protects the institution.
This is the eleventh class of our semester.
Future Citizenship: The Three Branches of Government and Checks and Balances pg 63-70; Unit 4 160-163
More than 700 people from 93 different countries on Tuesday raised their hands to recite the Oath of Allegiance as they took the final steps in their long journeys to become citizens of the United States.
Beneath the Space Needle, 501 immigrants from nearly 80 countries gathered to take the oath of allegiance, marking a personal milestone on a national holiday.
The cost to naturalize legally can range from $900 to $15,000, and for these 100 new Americans, this Friday wasn’t just the Fourth of July; it was the finish line few ever see.
Alexis Dominguez reports from Phoenix.
Friday marks a life-changing milestone for 50 people who now get to call themselves American citizens. They came from 20 different countries with their own story, their own journey, and now they get to share this moment of belonging.
On August 28, 2024 USCIS posted a new video: Apply for Citizenship Online: How to File Your Application for Naturalization Online which illustrates how to complete and submit Form N-400 2024, Application for Naturalization through your USCIS Online Account. Kudos USCIS!
This is the first class of our new semester. Welcome new students!
14 USCIS Questions in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This quiz matches 14 USCIS civics questions with speeches and events from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who worked for equality for all Americans and for all those who thirst for peace and justice throughout the world mp3 and pdf
A Quick Interview Based on the N-400r of Juah Sarwee from Fish Town, Liberia plus 10qs about US Geography and Symbols (2017) pdf
In the seats of the Roebbelen Center, Roseville CA, hundreds of people from 57 different counties became American citizens just days before Independence Day.
We will first read about Q99 from the USCIS M638 quick civics lesson. Then we will discuss the Declaration of Independence, the Compromise of 1850, and abolitionist Fredrick Douglass. Then we will listen to a short reading from Fredrick Douglass speech: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” Note that Negro was a common term for Black or African-Americans, but it is not often used today. Let's get started.
I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim.
To him, your celebration is a sham;
your boasted liberty, an unholy license;
your national greatness, swelling vanity;
your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless;
your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence;
your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;
your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings,
with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast,
fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages...
Listen to and read text from The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, written by abolitionist and former slave: Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass presented this speech on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, NY. This speech concludes with a poem, a peace prayer, written by William Lloyd Garrison
Watch actor Danny Glover read abolitionist Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July Speech, 1852" on October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.)
The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid nationwide protests and calls for systemic reforms. In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans.
