American Government – Applied
Chapter 10 – Congress
Sections 2 & 3
Name_________________
Directions: Answer the following questions by reading pages 267-272.
SECTION 2
1. How many Congressmen are in the House of Representatives? _________________
2. The total number of seats in the House of Representatives is apportioned among the states based on what?
_________________________________
3. List the states that have only one representative in the House of Representatives:
____________________, ____________________, _____________________, ________________,
____________________, ______________________, ___________________________
4. The information regarding the House of Representatives can be found where in the Constitution?
______________________ ___________________
5. What does reapportionment mean? _______________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
6. What is conducted every 10 years, as required by the Constitution, and used to determine the number of
districts are represented for each state?
___________________________________
7. What did the Reapportionment Act of 1929 do? ____________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
8. Congress has required election to be held when? ____________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
9. What are off-year elections? ____________________________________________________________
10. What is the term used when district boundaries are drawn to help out the party in power?
___________________________________________
11. In a case from Georgia, Wesbury v Sanders, what did the Supreme Court demand? _________________
The House of Representatives and the Senate
Directions: Complete the Chart below using your textbook pages 272-273 for the House of
Representatives and pages 277-278 for the Senate.
House of Representative
Senate
Branch of Government
Number of members from
each state
Total number of members
Term length
Term limit?
Age requirement
Citizenship requirement
Residence requirement
Title of leader
Directions: Answer the following questions by reading pages 275-277.
SECTION 3
1. What does the Constitution say about the size of the Senate? ___________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
2. What did the Framers hope when they designed a smaller Senate? ______________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
3. Originally, the Constitution provided that the members of the Senate were chosen how? _____________
_________________________________________________________________________________
4. What does continuous body mean? _______________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
5. What are constituencies? ________________________________________________________________
American Government – Applied
Chapter 10 – Congress
Sections 2 & 3
Name:
Directions: Answer the following questions by reading pages 267-272.
SECTION 2
1. What is the exact size of the House of Representatives? _________________
2. Article I of the Constitution directs Congress to
_______________________________________
3. As the nation’s population grew, and as the number of States increased, so did the size of the
___________________________________________
4. The ____________________________________________________ Act of 1929
5. Congressional Elections – Date: Congressional elections are held on the
_________________________
______________________ in every state.
6. Those congressional elections that occur in the nonpresidential years are called
___________________ ____________________ ___________________________________
7. The 435 members of the House are chosen by the __________________________________
8. What does gerrymandering mean? Check your vocabulary paper. _____________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
9. Wesberry v. ________________________________________, ________________
10. You know that there are _________________ members of the House of Representatives
The House of Representatives and the Senate
Directions: Complete the Chart below using the chart on page 272.
House of Representative
Senate
Total number of members
Term length
Younger or older
membership?
More prestige or less
prestige?
Strict rules or flexible rules?
Directions: On page 272, use the information under Formal Qualifications to complete
the following chart for the House and page 277 under Qualifications for Senators.
House of Representatives
How many years old must
they be?
They have to be a citizen for
how many years?
Do they have to live in the
state they represent? Yes or
No
Senate
Directions: Answer the following questions by reading pages 275-277.
SECTION 3
1. The Constitution says that the Senate “shall be composed of _____________________
Senators from each state”.
2. Originally, the Constitution provided that the members of the Senate were to be chosen by
the
____________________________ _______________________________________
3. Senators serve for _______________ - _____________________ ____________________
4. A Senator must meet a higher level of __________________________________________
5. What are constituencies?
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
American Government – Applied
Chapter 10 – Congress
Sections 2 & 3
Name:
Directions: Answer the following questions by reading pages 267-272.
SECTION 2 ________________ _________________________________ ______
______________________________________________________________________
Size and _________________________________________
Apportioned
(_______________________________________________)
Rea_________________________________________________________________
Reapportion - _______________________________________________ -
A Growing _________________________________________________________
The ___________________________________________________ ___________________
of 1929.
Congressional ______________________________________________________
Date Tuesday following the first Monday in November of each
____________________________ - ____________________________________ year.
Off-Year __________________________________________________________________
Districts
Single-member district – the voters in each district elect one of the State’s representatives
from among a field of candidates running for a seat in the House
_______________________________ ________________ ____________________________
At-large – elected from the state _____________ ________ ______________________
Gerrymandering
Gerrymandered – have been drawn to the advantage of the
________________________________ ______________________________________
Wesberry v. Sanders ______________________
“one person, ______________________ ___________________________”
Qualifications for House ______________________________________________________
Formal qualifications
1. must be at least _______________ _________________ ______ ____________
2. must have been a citizen of the United States for at least ______________________
_________________________________
3. must be an inhabitant of the State from which he or she is
__________________________________
Informal ______________________________________________________________