Ch . 8 Vocabulary Review HG

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

• Gerrymandering

• landlocked state

• nation-state

• nation

A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.

• nation-state

• multinational state

• landlocked state

• perforated state

A state that encompasses a very small land area.

• nation

• multinational state

• landlocked state

• microstate

A state that contains two or more cultural groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

• nation

• nation-state

• multinational state

• state

1. A large group of people who are united by common cultural characteristics, such as language and ethnicity, or by shared history.

• nation

• state

• nation-state

• unitary state

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular nation.

• perforated state

• sovereignty

• terrorism

• nation-state

An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

• sovereignty

• unitary state

• state

• terror state

The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take.

• terrorism

• unitary state

• self-determination

• perforated state

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

• nation

• state

• unitary state

• sovereignty

Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

• prorupted state

• self-determination

• sovereignty

• unitary state