Chapter 8

Question 1

City-state

Answer 1

A sovereign state compromising the city and it’s immediately surrounding countryside

Question 2

Anocracy

Answer 2

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types.

Question 3

Autonomous Region

Answer 3

a self-ruled region within another country

Question 4

Autocracy

Answer 4

a system of government by one person with absolute power.

Question 5

Democracy

Answer 5

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Question 6

Semi-autonomous region

Answer 6

an area where a group has some type of political autonomy.

Question 7

Microstate

Answer 7

A state that encompasses a very small land area.

Question 8

Confederation

Answer 8

an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.

Question 9

Federal

Answer 9

A system in which power is divided between the national and regional governments

Question 10

Capitalism

Answer 10

An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.

Question 11

Communism

Answer 11

a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

Question 12

Multinational State

Answer 12

A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agreed to come exist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities

Question 13

Nation-state

Answer 13

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity last been transformed into a nationality

Question 14

Self-determination

Answer 14

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Question 15

Sovereignty

Answer 15

The ability of a state to govern its territory free from the control of its internal affairs by others

Question 16

State

Answer 16

And area organized into a political unit and has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

Question 17

Unitary state

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Nation

Answer 18

a group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity

Question 19

Stateless Nation

Answer 19

a group of people with a common political identity who do not have a territorially defined, sovereign country of their own

Question 20

Multiethnic State

Answer 20

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

Question 21

Congressional District (voting district)

Answer 21

Divisions of a region that represent that population in a larger congressional body.

Question 22

Census

Answer 22

A count of the people as legally mandated by the US Constitution every 10 years.

Question 23

Redistricting

Answer 23

The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census.

Question 24

Gerrymandering

Answer 24

Manipulating the boundaries of a district in favor of one party over another.

Question 25

Supranational Organization

Answer 25

A multinational union of countries that give some of its authority and sovereignty to the overall group and are bound by its decisions.