Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out
a. in Moscow in late 1918.
b. after working-class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd.
c. in Warsaw after the 1916 crop failure.
d. after the Memorial Day Massacre of steel workers.
e. after the police murdered a Socialist Revolutionary leader in the Winter Palace.
b
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A) He dismissed corrupt officials and insisted Indian customs and religions were to be respected. B) He strongly encouraged Christian missionary activity to weaken the nawabs. C) He started an aggressive military campaign to crush local rulers and fought the Battle of Plassey. D) He declared himself the Raj and tried to lead India to independence from Great Britain. E) He was ineffective and accomplished very little as the British governor of India.
The new field of patristics focused on what?
A. Grammar and rhetoric of early translations B. Study of the writings of the early church fathers C. Tracing patrons' family histories D. Studying the political writings of ancient Rome E. Lives of the saints as literature rather than theology
The Russian monarch whose policies favored the landed nobility, at the expense of the serfs, was
a. Alexander II. b. Catherine the Great. c. Peter II. d. Peter the Great. e. Ivan IV.
Theodore Roosevelt ended the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by
a. offering to mediate between the owners and coal miners. b. passing legislation making the miners' union illegal. c. helping the mine owners to import strike breakers. d. appealing to mine owners' and workers' sense of the public interest. e. threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.