4.6 Internal Boundaries Vocabulary

Sharing of power between national and local governments

• Discrimination

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation Of Powers

Count of the population, done every 10 years in the U.S.

• Census

• Electorate

• Reapportionment

• Gerrymandering

Divide countries into smaller units for governance

• Voting districts

• Adaptability

• Subsequent boundary

• Internal boundaries

People eligible to vote in a country

• Gerrymandering

• Bipartisan

• Redistricting

• Electorate

Adjusting the number of representatives for each state based on population changes

• Redistricting

• Reapportionment

• Federalism

• Census

Redrawing district boundaries to balance the number of people in each district

• Electorate

• Census

• Redistricting

• Electoral Geography

a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage

• Electoral geography

• Reapportionment

• Redistricting

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Analysis of elections and voting patterns using spatial thinking

• Reapportionment

• Gerrymandering

• Redistricting

• Electoral geography

Connected and unbroken

• Contiguous

• Compact

• Census

• Internal Boundaries

Drawing political boundaries to protect or increase power

• Electorate

• Gerrymandering

• Voting Rights Act

• Discrimination