How did the supreme court case, gibbons v. ogden, affect interstate commerce?
it determined that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce.
it established the right of businesses to operate in more than one state.
it established the right of states to work together to regulate businesses in their states.
it allowed the federal government to issue licenses for commerce between states.

It determined that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce.

The case of Gibbons v. Ogden regarded the interstate shipping trade and whether or not the states could regulate or if it was Congress's job to regulate.

The decision from the Marshall Court stated it was the job of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate trade between states to include shipping. New York was not able to regulate the trade taking place in the waterways between states. One of the justices included in a supporting decision that the federal interstate laws superseded the state laws and the federal government was the ultimate power on interstate trade.

B) The Organic Theory

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The Organic Theory of geography -- or maybe more accurately, of geopolitics -- was proposed by German geographer Friedrich Ratzel in 1897.  He suggested that nations function similarly to living organisms.  The controversial part of his theory was that the way a living organism takes in nourishment to grow and thrive, strong nations naturally will nourish and expand themselves, taking in weaker nations or cultures around them.  Ratzel coined the term "Lebensraum" (German for "living space"), which originally, in his view, meant the space for a strong nationalist culture to grow.  His writings came only a few decades after the German Empire had been reborn as the "Second Reich" (second kingdom), a renewal of the older "Holy Roman Empire" of German states as they were linked together in the medieval era.  Ratzel's ideas about "Lebensraum" later were picked up by Hitler and the Nazis as a justification for expanding German territory and taking over neighboring countries.  Germany's expansion under the Nazis as the "Third Reich" led to World War II in Europe.