What caused the Thirty Years' War?

A) The new (Catholic) Habsburg ruler Ferdinand II in Bohemia withdrew the edict of toleration, forcing Protestant nobles to revolt, overthrowing Ferdinand.
B) This was a Catholic uprising in response to the territory gained by Protestants over the intervening decades and an attempt to reclaim that territory.
C) The peasant revolt in Europe for freedom from religious persecution, whether Catholic or Protestant
D) A Protestant uprising in response to the Catholic Reformation and their consolidation of power and the subsequent fight for territory for each branch of Christianity
E) The seventeenth-century struggle for power among the leading princes of Europe


D

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following factors most directly contributed to the change between the two periods shown in the graph?

(A) a rise in secular reform inspired by the second great awakening (B) a fear of too much popular influence in government (C) an expansion of political democracy for white men (D) a growing reluctance to locate political power in legislative assemblies

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