The Tenth Amendment protects the powers of

A. the judicial system,
B the legislative branch.
C the federal government.
D state governments.

The answer is C.

Explanation: This is the answer because the tenth amemendment states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

a. favoring native born americans over immigrants.

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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