My answer is The dowager empress Cixi held reins of power. Committed to tradition values, but did not support certain reforms. Wanted to reform educational system, diplomatic service, and military.
Rivers help geographer to understand how civilizations developed in several main ways.
1. If there is a river near an old civilization, you know where the civilization got their water from.
2. The civilization could have used the river for exporting and importing goods.
3. The civilization could have gone extinct or failed because of the river flooding.
President Grover Cleveland rejected the effort to annex Hawaii because: a majority of native Hawaiians opposed annexation to the U.S.
The cornerstone was providing universal healthcare.
This was the cornerstone of his first term because it's the idea around which his entire campaign was developed. He, being a democrat, supported the idea of universal health care and tried to implement many new programs that would help people. The universal healthcare idea is still problematic however even to this day.
