Gerrymandering
North Carolina's New Maps
Checks and Balances
NC Geography
Facts you should know by now
100

The process of clumping members of one group into 1 district in order to dilute their power in other districts.

What is PACKING?

100

The reason NC drew new maps this year.

What is the 2020 census?

100

The branch of government that passed the new district maps.

What is the legislative branch?

100

The number of districts NC would have if we divided by geographical regions.

What is 4?

100

This makes up the NC General Assembly.

What is the NC State Senate and the NC House of Representatives?

200
The process of drawing district lines to separate members of a group into different districts to dilute their political power.

What is CRACKING?

200
How many new district maps did NC just pass?
Three
200
This entity forced NC to throw out their maps because of racial gerrymandering.
What is the Supreme Court? or What is the judicial branch?
200
The capital of NC is in this geographic region.

What is the Piedmont?

200

The outline for the three branches of government and system of checks and balances.

What is the US Constitution?

300
This practice is illegal as a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

What is RACIAL GERRYMANDERING?

300

The political party presumed to gain the most from the new maps.

What is the Republican Party?

300

This tool is denied to the NC executive branch to provide check and balance to the redistricting process.

What is the governor's veto?

300
This geographical feature creates the eastern border of NC.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300

This is what municipal government refers to.

What is local government?

400
This practice is legal according to the Supreme Court because Congress has not passed any explicit laws against it.

What is POLITICAL GERRYMANDERING?

400

What were the different maps NC just passed?

US Congress or House of Representatives

NC Senate

NC House

400

The next step before the new district maps go into effect.

What is the courts (judicial branch) hearing lawsuits against the maps?
400

The number of districts there would be if each NC county could be it's own district.

What is 100? (There are 100 counties in NC)

400

The current governor of NC.

Who is Roy Cooper?

500
Two proposed solutions to political gerrymandering.

What is a non-partisan committee to draw the maps and what is mathematical modeling?

500
What do critics say the problem with the new maps are? (the answer is specific, it is not "gerrymandering")

NC splits about 50/50 democrat & republican, yet the way the maps are drawn give republicans "safe" districts resulting in republicans having a strong majority of seats and democrats a minority.

500

The 3 step process the maps went through to be passed.

What is 1st: the redistricting committee drawing the maps, 2nd: public comment opportunities for NC citizens to offer suggestions/objections, 3rd: all representatives in the General Assembly vote on the final maps.

500

The direction I would drive from Asheville to Raleigh to protest the new maps at the General Assembly.

What is east?

500

How to spell your SS teacher's first & last name.

What is J-E-S-S-E W-H-A-R-T-O-N.

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