US government's authority comes from the consent of the people it governs.Governments are instituted among men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
B.
The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam.
In general, the Monroe Doctrine represent a change in President Washington's foreign policy, since the Monroe Doctrine dictated that the US would treat any further attempts by Europeans to colonize the Americas as acts of aggression, and Washington was far more isolationist.
The answer is D. Along with Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan were some of the richest, most powerful men in America during the Gilded Age.
