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Study Guide: Chapter 10 – Congress
Directions: Read the assigned section and complete the study guide considering the impact/role of
government in all of your answers. The Vocabulary should be defined in YOUR OWN WORDs. The Main Ideas
should be explained with detail in YOUR OWN WORDs.
Section Two: The House of Representatives
Vocabulary/People:
1. Apportion
2. Reapportion
3. Off-year election
4. Single-member district
5. At-large
6. Gerrymandered
Main Ideas:
1. What is the size of the House and how many representatives is each state guaranteed?
2. What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?
a. _
b. _
c. _
d. –
3. What is the significance of Wesberry vs. Sanders (1964)?
4. What are the formal qualifications for House Members?
5. What are the informal qualifications for House Members?
Section Three: The Senate
Vocabulary:
1. Continuous body
2. Constituency
Main Ideas:
1. What is the size of the Senate?
2. How is the size of the Senate determined?
3. Why did Madison feel it was important to put in the restrictions on the size and qualifications of the
Senate?
4. What are the Constitutional requirements to be in the Senate?