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