APHG Unit 4 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A nation that has no set state/territory which they can call their own
  2. 6. After the US Census, House of Representatives rearranges where US states gain or lose seats
  3. 7. A state with many different nations residing within its borders
  4. 8. A type of state in which governmental power is divided between central and regional governments
  5. 9. A nation which spans across multiple states(when nation is very large that it's not just in one state)
  6. 10. A narrow, strategically-placed canal used for trade
  7. 13. Manipulating voting district boundaries to sway votes in one political party's favor
  8. 15. A boundary that no longer exists but the evidence of it can still be felt on the cultural landscape
  9. 16. A type of gerrymandering where district boundaries divide the opposition voters into multiple districts to reduce their impact on votes
  10. 17. A type of state in which all government power is concentrated in the central government
  11. 18. power moving from central government to regional governments
Down
  1. 1. A group of people with similar culture, history, language, religion, ethnicity, etc.
  2. 2. A boundary made by outside powers not considering local populations
  3. 3. A straight-lined boundary, usually along latitude or longitude lines
  4. 4. A state in which majority of its population is of the same nation
  5. 5. Voting district boundaries are redrawn to account for population changes
  6. 11. Another word for country
  7. 12. A type of gerrymandering where district boundaries pack together all of the opposition voters into just one or few districts so they can't win elsewhere
  8. 14. one big state breaking up into many smaller states