Let's Get Organized
Boundaries, please.
States and Nations
Election Season
Et Cetra
100
1. This organization eliminated tariffs for much of Europe.
2. This is a U.S.-led military alliance.
3. This reduced trade barriers in North America.
1. What is the European Union (EU)?
2. What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
3. What is the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)?
100
1. This type of boundary is no longer enforced, but its impact can still be seen in the surrounding community.
2. This type of boundary existed before the settlement of the surrounding community occurred.
3. This type of boundary is not based on physical features, and tends to be straight and angular.
1. What is a Relic Boundary?
2. What is an Antecedent Boundary?
3. What is a Geometric Boundary?
100
1. A nationality that is not represented by a state.
2. A nation that is spread across different states.
3. A state that contains different nations.
1. What is a Stateless Nation?
2. What is a Multi-State Nation?
3. What is a Multi-National State?
100
1. Congressional representation and district maps are based off of this major data collection.
2. This is the community of people who are eligible to vote in an election.
3. This occurs when congressional boundaries are drawn to benefit or harm a political party.
1. What is the Census?
2. What is the Electorate?
3. What is Gerrymandering?
100
1. This is a region where international or interethnic tensions are high, with high potential for the outbreak of violence.
2. This is the process of a multinational state being broken up into separate nation states.
3. This is the former country that most exemplifies that process (#2)
1. What is a Shatterbelt?
2. What is Balkanization?
3. What was Yugoslavia?
200
1. A venture involving 3 or more national states political economic or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives.
2. These are companies that operate across multiple nations, in some cases having powers comparable to being their own state entities.
1. What is a Supranational Organization?
2. What are Transnational Corporations?
200
1. Most African countries today have these types of boundaries, causing divides and inter-ethnic conflict.
2. This is a boundary designed to denote and separate different ethnic groups.
1. What are Superimposed Boundaries?
2. What is a Subsequent (Ethnographic) Boundary?
200
1. States that are in part or wholly dependent on a more powerful outside state for support and legitimacy.
2. These types of states were particularly important during this international conflict which shaped the world in the second half of the 20th century.
1. What is a Satellite State?
2. What was the Cold War?
200
1. Splitting a voting group across multiple voting districts.
2. Putting a minority voting group in a district with an overruling majority.
1. What is Cracking?
2. What is Stacking?
200
1. Part of a state that is wholly surrounded by another state.
2. Part of a state that is separated from the rest of the state by one or more states.
1. What is an Enclave?
2. What is an Exclave?
300
1. This organization facilitates cooperation between countries whose economies are mainly structured around the oil industry.
2. These are two examples of countries that are members of this organization.
1. What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
2. What are Algeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela?
300
1. This is a type of state that does not have territorial access to the sea.
2. This is one example of such a country in Europe.
1. What is a Landlocked State?
2. What are Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, N. Macedonia, Moldova, and Belarus?
300
1. This type of state exists when all levels of government are uniformly organized within a single legal system with a central executive authority.
2. This type of state exists when the central executive authority oversees a diverse set of sub-states with different legal systems.
1. What is a Unitary State?
2. What is a Federal State?
300
1. Concentrating a minority voting group into a few all-minority districts to minimize the total districts in which they can win elections.
2. Combining two voting districts to force two incumbent candidates to run against each other.
1. What is Packing?
2. What is Hijacking?
300
1. This is an international agreement governing territorial claims over the oceans and seas.
2. These are designated states that have special situations due to their vulnerable island geography.
1. What is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)?
2. What are Small Island Developing States (SIDS)?
400
1. This organization was founded in 1945 to promote international peace.
2. These are two of the Permanent Members of this organization's Security Council.
1. What is the United Nations?
2. What are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
400
1. Borders between EU member states best exemplify this type of boundary.
2. The border between North and South Korea best exemplify this type of boundary.
1. What is an Open Boundary?
2. What is a Militarized Boundary?
400
1. The process of a state taking a neighboring territory into its control.
2. The process of a state delegating its powers from the central authority to local authorities.
1. What is Annexation?
2. What is Devolution?
400
1. Moving districts so that an incumbent's address is no longer within their district.
2. The process in which voting districts are re-drawn and new voting districts are created.
1. What is Kidnapping?
2. What is Redistricting?
400
1. This is a systematic effort to exclude and remove a certain ethnic group from a multi-ethnic society.
2. This is an example of that concept that happened in central Africa in the 1990s.
1. Ethnic Cleansing / Genocide
2. Rwanda Genocide
500
This organization was succeeded in 1945 by a similar organization, but the U.S. never joined this preceding organization and it failed due in part to its lack of enforcement.
What was the League of Nations?
500
This event laid the foundations for the modern political borders in Africa.
What was the Berlin Conference?
500
These are four examples of states that emerged from the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1991.
What are Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia?
500
This is when the amount of representation each state receives in Congress is adjusted based on the most recent data collection on respective populations.
1. What is Reapportionment?
500
In 2014, the annexation of Crimea into the Russian Federation done on the grounds that Crimea was an historic part of Russia populated by Russians, separated arbitrarily amid the collapse of the U.S.S.R. This concept is best exemplified by this given justification.
What is Irredentism?