Politcal Organization Vocab

Question 1

Sovereignty

Answer 1

the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

Question 2

State

Answer 2

a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government

Question 3

Federal State

Answer 3

a country where governmental authority is shared among a central government and various other smaller regional authorities

Question 4

Unitary State

Answer 4

a state where laws are administered uniformly by one central government (there are no regional authorities)

Question 5

Political Boundaries

Answer 5

an imaginary line separating one political unit such as a country or state from another

Question 6

Physical Boundaries

Answer 6

a naturally occurring barrier between two or more areas. They include oceans, cliffs, or valleys.

Question 7

Human Made Borders

Answer 7

lines drawn by governments, states, counties, or cities. Most of the time you can’t see them. They’re imaginary lines drawn on a map

Question 8

Autonomy

Answer 8

an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from external authority

Question 9

Self Determination

Answer 9

the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will (sovereignty is a government free from external control)

Question 10

City-State

Answer 10

a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside

Question 11

Nation

Answer 11

a group of people with common cultural characteristics

Question 12

Nation State

Answer 12

a state in which the cultural borders of a nation correspond with the state borders of a country

Question 13

Stateless Nation

Answer 13

a nation of people without a state that it considers home

Question 14

Alliances

Answer 14

a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations

Question 15

Globalization

Answer 15

the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact

Question 16

Supranatural Organization

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a multinational union or association in which member countries cede authority and sovereignty on at least some internal matters to the group, whose decisions are binding on its members (EU, UN)

Question 17

Terrorism

Answer 17

the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes

Question 18

Gerrymandering

Answer 18

the process wherein political officials redraw electoral districts to favor a certain political party, ethnic group, coalition, or social class

Question 19

Colonialism

Answer 19

the process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country.