Across
- 2. Drawing district boundaries to give a political party or group an advantage.
- 4. Dividing seats in the House of Representatives among states based on population.
- 7. Redrawing district boundaries, usually after the census every ten years.
- 9. Keeping people with shared economic, cultural, geographic, or other interests together in the same district.
- 11. Required state legislative districts to have roughly equal populations under the principle of “one person, one vote.”
- 12. Districts should have reasonably concentrated shapes rather than being oddly shaped or stretched out.
- 13. Established that federal courts could hear challenges to legislative district maps based on unequal representation.
- 14. The type of gerrymandering where district boundaries are drawn to favor one political party over another.
- 15. A district in which racial or ethnic minorities make up more than half the population.
Down
- 1. When representatives share characteristics, such as race or gender, with the people they represent.
- 3. All parts of a district must connect geographically.
- 5. The type of gerrymandering where district boundaries are drawn to protect current officeholders from electoral challenges.
- 6. When representatives advocate for the interests and policy concerns of the people they represent.
- 8. Required congressional districts to have roughly equal populations, extending “one person, one vote” to U.S. House elections.
- 10. The type of gerrymandering where race is used as a primary factor in drawing district boundaries and is unconstitutional.