Why was gerrymandering effective? a. it was ineffective therefore it was eliminated. c. it allowed minorities to vote in any district within the state. b. it allowed states to clump all minorities into one area and thus allowing the ward to have one vote per issue. d. it was a means of annexing parts of a state to remove the minority vote.
Which of the following episodes led to widespread charges that president reagan was not in adequate control? a. the u. s. retreat from lebanon after the bombing deaths of 241 u. s. marines as they lay sleeping in their barracks near beirut b. the trading of arms for hostages and the illegal funding of a right-wing insurgency in the iran-contra affair c. the sale of millions of acres of public lands to private corporations by the department of interior d. the proposal to congress, year after year, of federal budgets with huge deficits that ultimately ended up tripling the national debt