ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
AP Human Geography Videos 29 videos
AP Human Geography 2.5 Intro to Geography. Economic drawbacks of globalization include what?
AP Human Geography 1.2 Intro to Geography. The earliest geographers in the Western tradition to discover the Earth was spherical were...who?
How is a region defined? By climate? By the people? By whether or not its citizens have to put up with Time Warner?
AP Human Geography 3.2 Political Organization of Space 15 Views
Share It!
Transcript
- 00:00
and here's your Schmo toujours brought to you by political trends like
- 00:07
that time george w bush brought back tie-dye [Bush wearing a tie-die shirt]
- 00:11
heres our question as more states - ma critize and grow larger the general
- 00:15
political trend has been to what and here are potential answers own personal [The question is written out]
- 00:20
opinion i already loves dive right in and a federal government power is [Man diving into sand]
Full Transcript
- 00:26
distributed from the national government to local government so that they can [Local government taking a box of powers from the national government and runs off]
- 00:30
make their own laws it's all fun and games until someone succeeds
- 00:34
listen to south carolina a unitary government places most of the power in [South Carolina tips up a game board]
- 00:39
the hands of the national government and the local governments are basically just
- 00:42
smaller arms of the national government you know like little t-rex arm adorable [Toy t-rex waving its arms]
- 00:48
so looking again at our answers is it a restrict political minorities through
- 00:53
gerrymandering or better question what is gerrymandering gerrymandering is the
- 00:59
act of resetting district lines in order to gain a political advantage in [District lines being erased]
- 01:04
election legislators lob gerrymandering because it allows them to break up or [A new line is drawn in sharpie]
- 01:09
concentrate a certain demographics vote however most countries don't actually
- 01:13
give their legislators this power because you know they tend to abuse it
- 01:17
we know you're absolutely shocked that politicians would abuse a power [Man pointing at the president]
- 01:22
entrusted to them give you a second and get over it alright good good so are
- 01:27
interested hey what about sea move from federal to unitary government well most
- 01:31
states start out pretty small meaning it's easy for the national government to [US flag covers a map of the states]
- 01:34
control things they don't begin with a federal system and then suddenly decide
- 01:38
they want to stop delegate into local government it's the exact opposite of [The different governments connected]
- 01:42
that actually which looks a lot like another answer see so from unitary to
- 01:47
federal government yep this is actually how it happened the state grows larger
- 01:51
and the people in charge as a national level realize they can't be bothered
- 01:55
with voting on whether there should be a four-way stop sign if that one [People arguing over traffic signs]
- 01:59
intersection in your town so they move toward a federal structure making some
- 02:03
rules and then letting local governments do their own thing as long as they play
- 02:07
by those rules so b is looking good are there any better answers well what about [Answer B is circled in green]
- 02:11
deep limit candidate choices at the polls
- 02:14
make elections easier well as states gets larger and democratize the trend is
- 02:18
actually to make elections more fair and transparent that's a big part of [People at voting booths]
- 02:22
democracy people limiting choices is a slippery slope you'll end up with the [Policeman stops a guy after he has voted]
- 02:27
choices Emperor Maximilian or prison yeah D is not our answer last option
- 02:33
is e raise the voting age well the general trend for states is a
- 02:36
democratize and grow is to make it easier to vote not harder [Girl holding up 'I Voted' sign]
- 02:40
take the US for example in the beginning there were like four guys who met all
- 02:44
the qualifications to actually vote so it looks like our best answer is still [People disappear from the queue to vote]
- 02:48
be watching your government grow up is always bittersweet you're proud of where [The Capitol appears across the US flag]
- 02:52
it is now sure but you can still remember when it was an unwieldy unitary [The US crying on a couch]
- 02:56
state that desperately needed a more streamlined system we promised ourselves
- 03:00
we wouldn't cry [Parents start crying]
Related Videos
When you're about to marry the love of your life, not many things could stop you. However, finding out that your future hubby is keeping his crazy...
Here at Shmoop, we work for kids, not just the bottom line. Founded by David Siminoff and his wife Ellen Siminoff, Shmoop was originally conceived...
ACT Math: Elementary Algebra Drill 4, Problem 5. What is the solution to the problem shown?
AP® English Literature and Composition Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. Which literary device is used in lines 31 to 37?
AP® English Literature and Composition Passage Drill 2, Problem 1. What claim does Bacon make that contradicts the maxim "Whatsoever is delig...