1. DETERMINING
CENTRAL IDEAS
Why do you think states
require cities to have charters?

These cities have a charter establishing how government will be structured, what its duties are, and what local ordinances will be. ... It might have more authority to deal with local issues, but any laws it sets are subject to the state law and constitution.

Explanation:

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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