The process of determining how many representatives a district will elect to the House of Representatives, based on U.S. Census population figures, is referred to as
a. proctoring.
b. redistricting.
c. redistributing.
d. apportionment.
e. gerrymandering.
Answer: d. apportionment.
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How have politicians recently been forced to place Social Security on the public agenda?
a. More retirees are opting for private retirement accounts than relying on federal funds. b. Several major corporations have recently begun refusing to contribute to their employees’ retirement funds. c. The costs of Social Security have threatened to overwhelm its revenues. d. The Social Security program has a large surplus, while all other federal programs are operating with significant deficits. e. There are too few Social Security recipients to justify the expense of maintaining the cost of its administration.
Contrast the nationalization of civil liberties with the nationalization of civil rights.
What will be an ideal response?
The "Grangers" who were so influential in Texas politics during the 1870s were members of a national
a. religious movement. b. equal rights movement. c. labor union. d. farmers' organization. e. oil and gas industry organization.
"Pleading the 5th" means
a. refusing to incriminate oneself b. petitioning for a shorter prison term c. asking for a lawyer d. asking King for permission to skip 5th period history class