AP HUG Chapter 8 vocab gerrymandering-unitary state

to redraw voting district boundaries in such a way as to give one political party maximum electoral advantage and to reduce that of another party, to fragment voting blocks, or to achieve other non democratic objectives

• gerrymandering

• geometric

• buffer state

• annexation

an individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over a clearly defined territory considered partially or wholly an exclusive domain; the behavior associated with the defense of the home territory

• territoriality

• territorial morphology

• territorial disputes

• territory gerrymandering

a country which is formally independent but which is primarily subject to the domination of another, larger power

• nation

• satellite state

• state

• nation-state

Claimed that states are similar to organisms and applied the idea of natural selection to relationships among them

• heartland theory

• organic theory

• rimland theory

• state theory

a zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups

• shatter belt

• landlocked

• devolution

• demarcation

a nation that does not have a state

• nation

• nation-state

• state

• stateless nation

a state in which the central government dictates the degree of local or regional autonomy and the nature of local governmental units; a country with few cultural conflicts and with a strong sense of national identity

• unitary

• nation-state

• supernationalism

• federal

a culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnicity, beliefs, and customs

• nation-state

• state

• country

• nation

concept that different ethnic groups have the right to govern themselves

• suffrage

• self-determination

• apartheid

• Balkanization

the civil right to vote

• reapportionment

• gerrymandering

• suffrage

• apartheid