Table of Contents
- 1 What changes were made to strengthen the role of the federal government under the US Constitution?
- 2 What is the federal system of government in the United States?
- 3 Why were colonists fearful of large states holding more power?
- 4 What will 21st century technology look like?
- 5 How has the United States changed over the past 100 years?
- 6 How did machines change the pace of work in the 1800s?
What changes were made to strengthen the role of the federal government under the US Constitution?
What changes were made to strengthen the role of the federal government under the U.S. Constitution? The Constitution gave the federal government more power. It created an executive branch and allowed the government to tax and get funds from the citizens.
What is the federal system of government in the United States?
Federation
Presidential systemLiberal democracyFederal republicConstitutional republic
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Why were colonists fearful of large states holding more power?
They were afraid that a strong national government might abuse the rights of the people, so a list of rights that would be protected by the gov was necessary.
What keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power?
Separation of Powers in the United States is associated with the Checks and Balances system. The Checks and Balances system provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What did machines replace in the 1870s?
In the century since such mechanization had begun, machines had replaced highly skilled craftspeople in one industry after another. By the 1870s, machines were knitting stockings and stitching shirts and dresses, cutting and stitching leather for shoes, and producing nails by the millions.
What will 21st century technology look like?
21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES. Semiconductor-based sensors, some at the molecular or atomic level and inte- grated with DNA, will be able inexpensively to collect vast quantities of highly precise environmental and biological information, and begin to open up new frontiers for direct human-machine interconnection.
How has the United States changed over the past 100 years?
The beginning of the 21st century seems a suitable time to look back over the past 100 years and see how the United States has developed, for better and worse, during that period of its history. In the early decades of the 20th century the American people benefited from industrial growth while also experiencing its adverse effects.
How did machines change the pace of work in the 1800s?
Machines, on the other hand, tended to subdivide production down into many small repetitive tasks with workers often doing only a single task. The pace of work usually became faster and faster; work was often performed in factories built to house the machines.