The convention discussed removing the three-fifths compromise<span> which gave slave states more power in Congress and requiring a two-thirds super majority in Congress for the admission of new states, declarations of war, and laws restricting trade. The Federalists also discussed their grievances with the </span>Louisiana Purchase<span> and the </span>Embargo of 1807<span>. However, weeks after the convention's end, news of Major General </span>Andrew Jackson<span>'s overwhelming </span>victory in New Orleans<span> swept over the Northeast, discrediting and disgracing the Federalists, resulting in their elimination as a major national political force.</span>
Reserved public lands, antiturust suits, supported the children's bureau, and supported the 16th & 17th Amendments
Mann-Elkins Act-ICC regulated telecommunications and RR industries
Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be the one having to do with Mesopotamia being far more tolerant that Egypt, since Egypt faced far more religious uprisings. </span>
Answer: The United States had taken possession of the Philippines (as well as Guam and Puerto Rico) in 1898, after winning the Spanish-American War. Thus US interest in Asia was heightened.
At the same time, other nations had begun competing for "spheres of influence" in trade access with China.
Further detail:
The Open Door policy was issued by the United States in 1899-1900 as a series of dispatches from the US Secretary of State to other nations that had trading interests in China -- Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia. The policy reasserted earlier agreements that all countries should have equal access to ports in China, without undue preference to "spheres of influence" for one nation or another. The United States was seeking to maintain an equal footing with other nations in the access to trade in China.
