Because it could not govern effectively after the reign of terror, the directory had to "disband," which led to a massive power vacuum that was eventually filled by the dictatorship of Napoleon.
1. Latin America's landforms include highlands, lowlands, mountains, and plains.
2. I would say villages near the plains,lowlands and maybe even mountains
One way thing that the US could do about monopies is regulating them by breaking a monopoly up. In certain cases, government may decide a monopoly needs to be broken up because the firm has become too powerful. This rarely occurs. For example, the US looked into breaking up Microsoft, but in the end the action was dropped. This tends to be seen as an extreme step, and there is no guarantee the new firms won’t collude.