<span>Venezuela</span> holds the world's largest oil reserve
<span>I agree and disagree with this statement. I agree to a certain extent because through industrialization and the advancements of science, people began to change their religious beliefs. The discovery that the earth was more than millions of years old and the knowledge of a wide, open space beyond this solar system led people to become less religious in terms of accepting the Bible as scientific fact. I disagree because the science and modern methods of doing things didn't displace religion in Americans, but rather allowed them to develop new ways of combining their religions with their scientific beliefs. The arriving immigrants that were going to be urban industrial workers came from different cultures, with different faiths. This led to an increase in the number of different kinds of religious organizations. In addition, religious groups like the Protestants made it their goal to prevent Americans from becoming secular and instead wanted to renew religion among those that were non-religious by creating The Salvation Army and preaching to the poor. Another group known as the Fundamentalists communicated their religious ideals to the public used revival meetings, a practice created during the Great Awakenings, periods of great religious revival. During industrialization religion didn't fade, it increased because people were given a way to adapt their beliefs to modern life.</span>
I would put city on a river port to an ocean and/or lake. You have direct access to water and a harbor in which you could receive and export. If the river runs through the city, then transportation of goods etcetera will be easier. That can also give you recreational options as well like ferry rides and some water sports.
Think Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That is a major city on a lake with a river running through it.
The goal of municipal home rule in some states of US is to facilitate local control and minimize state intervention in municipal affairs, so the municipalities and counties have the ability to pass laws in accordance to state and federal constitutions. For example: Cities under municipal home rule can change: the transit laws; permit construction laws; land laws but without over passing the state and federal constitutions.
