“Gerrymandering is a threat to democracy in the United States”

Write a 10 sentence response to this statement. Your response must do 3 things:
Demonstrate your knowledge of GM
Explain how a democracy is supposed to work
Explain how Gerrymandering either does or doesn’t affect that.

Answer:

Gerrymandering (/ˈdʒɛrimændərɪŋ/,[1][2]) is a practice intended to establish an unfair political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries, which is most commonly used in first-past-the-post electoral systems.

Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: "cracking" (i.e. diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) and "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts).[3] The top-left diagram in the graphic is a form of cracking where the majority party uses its superior numbers to guarantee the minority party never attains a majority in any district.

In addition to its use achieving desired electoral results for a particular party, gerrymandering may be used to help or hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, or class group, such as in Northern Ireland where boundaries were constructed to guarantee Protestant Unionist majorities.[4] The U.S. federal voting district boundaries that produce a majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities are known as "majority-minority districts". Gerrymandering can also be used to protect incumbents. Wayne Dawkings describes it as politicians picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians.[5]

The term gerrymandering is named after Elbridge Gerry (pronounced like "Gary"[2]), who, as Governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process

which of the following describes the loyalists?
• they thought King would protect the rights
• they made up a majority of the population
• they were composed of mainly African-American
• they had the support of the quakers
• they wanted to avoid being punished as rebels

which of the following enabled farmers to grow more crops?

Which of the following was the main reason that Buddhist thought had important social implications for South Asia?
A
It encouraged larger family size.
B
Its followers were incorporated into the Brahman caste.
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It challenged hierarchies based on caste.
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D
It reinforced the idea of obedience to the emperor as a means to salvation.

1. List and describe one political, one scientific, and one cultural legacy of the
classical Greek & Roman empires.

The following map shows the spread of Islam from 632 A.D. (CE) to 1000 A.D. (CE). Use the map to answer the following question:

What does this map indicate about the Crusades?

A.) The Crusades were a direct result of Muslim conquest of Jerusalem.

B.) Much of the Holy Land had been under Muslim control for centuries before the Crusades began.

C.) The Crusades were a direct result of Muslim invasion of Tours.

D.) Land bordering the Mediterranean Sea was not a concern for Crusaders.

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Which of the following best defines absolute threshold?
A. The presence of stimulus for detection.
В. The absence of stimulus from detection.
C. The weakest amount of stimulus one can detect.
D. The greatest amount of stimulus one can detect.
Please select the best answer from the choices provided
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A
B
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Place the following items in the order in which they occurred:
= Violent conflicts emerge over land and native peoples lose their traditional lands
= Contact between Colonists and native peoples leads to introduction of small pox and other diseases
E Jamestown begins to thrive and settlers and cavaliers need more land to grow tobacco
= Almost 90% of indigenous people die from diseases
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What was the only colony to sell stamps that taxed printed paper? _______________________________

The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the power in North America for

a. Britain
b.Canada
c. France
d. Spain

in a autocracy, what kind of power does a leader hold ​

Liberalism places individual rights above majority rule.
O True
False

1. What is the main idea of this passage?
a. The Greeks and Romans share a common history.
b. the Romans developed their identity by learning from those around them.
C. Italy is a harder place to live than Greece.
d. Romans learned to overthrow their kings from the ideas of the Greeks.

What colony had the best initial relations with Native Americans?

Which of the following best describes a nation?
A. A government based on the ideas of individual liberty and
democracy
B. A powerful country capable of controlling a wide area
C. A group of people with a shared ethnicity, homeland, and culture
D. An organization of individuals who collectively invest in an
expensive business venture

Question 2
Henry Ford was involved in the production of oil!
O True
O False
Question 3
What 2 things did capitalists invest in?
o Electricity/Bessemer Process
O Railroads/Factories

List and explain the Spanish government’s reasons for approving Moses Austin’s plan for a settlement in Texas please hurry

i need help plz im on a timer

What did the Philosophes do better understand and improve society?

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What was the most important impact of the transition from the two-field system to the three-
field system?

How does Colonial literature reflect the social political and philosophical ideas of the time?

Which tribe was hardest hit by loss of land in the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866?

San Antonio becomes the capital of Texas in 1772.


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

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F

The Silk road brought all of the following goods to China from central Asia EXCEPT:
a.
horses
c.
corn
b.
alfalfa
d.
grapes

why the Pax Romana could be considered one of the greatest periods of the Roman Empire.

The 1816 tariffs angered the South because they had very few factories and relied heavily on British imports true or false

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In 150-200 words, name three advancements made by the Egyptians and tell how they impacted the culture.

Select each equivalent answer. You must select all correct answers.

Which of the following are equivalent to 10-2 ?

Group of answer choices

0.100

0.02

LaTeX: \frac{1}{100} 1 100

LaTeX: \frac{1}{200} 1 200

0.01

LaTeX: \frac{1}{10}

Which of the following situations is the best example of voluntary migration?
A.
being physically forced to move
B.
having to move because of a natural disaster
C.
feeling like there’s no other option but to move
D.
choosing to move in order to work at a better job


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

what words might Jefferson use to describe the "common man"?