APGopo Unit 2

Illogical electoral district lines that are drawn to give the advantage to one political party

• Reapportionment

• Redistricting

• Logrolling

• Gerrymandering

The reallocation of the number of representatives each state has in the House of Representatives to accommodate population shifts

• Redistricting

• Gerrymandering

If enough signatures are obtained, this brings a bill out of committee and onto the House floor

• Logrolling

• Cloture

• 1. Discharge petitions

• Entitlements

The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census to accommodate population shifts

• Reapportionment

• Redistricting

• Logrolling

• Gerrymandering

Match the economic systems to its characteristics or meaning.

• Customs, family, and historical basis

• Mixed economy

• Public and private sectors

• Free Market

• Private sector, profit, and minimal gov.

• Command economy

• Centrally owned by the government

• Traditional economy

Match the following

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• 14th Amendment

• Ended segregation in public schools

• 13th Amendment

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• all persons born or naturalized in U.S. were entitled equal rights

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• abolished slavery

• 15th Amendment

Match the following person with the event they spearheaded...

• first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

• Herman Sweatt

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• Black law student who challenged UT LAW

• Jackie Robinson

• Integration in Little Rock H.S.

• Rosa Parks

• civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

• Little Rock Nine

The process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census

• Reapportionment

• Logrolling

• Politico Model

• Gridlock

The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional is known as

• Judicial Review

• Judicial Activism

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Interpretation

Which of the following is a power unique to the House of Representatives?

• Ratifying treaties

• Impeaching federal officials

• Confirming presidential appointments

• Declaring war