1. AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CH 15n 26o CLASS NOTES
STATE ORGANIZATION AND NATIONAL POWER

2. Move capital to one to achieve some national goal
Forward Capitals –
Move capital to one to achieve some national goal
Pakistan > Karachi to Islamabad (1960)
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia (1960)
Nigeria> Lagos to Abuja (1991)
USA > Philadelphia to Wash. DC (1790)
Karachi was too close southern ports, easily attacked. Islamabad is more central and defensible

4. Karachi

5. Islamabad

7. Rio de Janeiro

8. Brasilia

11. Unitary State –
(older European)
N/S with centralized Gov’t exerting power equally over all parts of the state (Paris – France)

12. Federal State –
political system which unites N/S under common goals
But allows indiv. states to maintain ID’s & laws (USA)

14. Electoral Geography Study of voting systems and behavior
Special interest in representation
How voting districts are drawn up
Gerrymandering – (re-) drawing districts for voting advantage

15. (Don’t Write!!!!!)
"The term gerrymandering is derived from Elbridge Gerry ( ), the governor of Massachusetts from 1810 to In 1812, Governor Gerry signed a bill into law that redistricted his state to overwhelmingly benefit his party, the Republican Party.
The opposition party, the Federalists, were quite upset. One of the congressional districts was shaped very strangely and, as the story goes, one Federalist remarked that the district looked like a salamander.
No, said another Federalist, it's a gerrymander. The Boston Weekly Messenger brought the term gerrymander into common usage when it subsequently printed an editorial cartoon that showed the district in question with a monster's head, arms, and tail and named the creature a gerrymander."

16. “Gerrymander”