The reforms of Tsar Alexander II centered around
A) government sponsorship of popular societies like the Bolsheviks.
B) improvements in the military.
C) the abolition of serfdom.
D) the formation of local, self-governing assemblies called dumas.
E) nationalizing all the lands of Russia, putting them under state control.
C
You might also like to view...
What Chicago gathering started off as fairly peaceful protesting the deaths of 4 at the McCormick harvester plant but erupted into violence when a bomb was hurled at police:
A: Tompkins Square B: Times Square C: Haymarket Square D: Four Square
Why did President Johnson veto the Freedmen's Bureau law and Civil Rights Act in 1866?
a. Johnson did not get along with the Radical Republicans. b. He sought revenge against the Radical Republicans for opposing his Reconstruction plan. c. These two pieces of legislation posed too great a challenge to his deeply racist views. d. He believed they violated the core tenets of the Republican Party.
How was the worship of the god Aten (sun disc) different from customary religious practice in ancient Egypt?
a. Aten was a universal creator God to be worshipped above all others. b. Aten took the form of a circle, or disc. c. Aten had a special relationship with the ruler Amunhotep IV and his wife Nefertiti. d. All of these answers are correct.
Which of the following statements is true about the beginnings of European slavery?
A) The Portuguese who traded with African kingdoms bartered for African slaves and carried them back to Portugal as living novelties. B) Slavery was a prominent form of labor and was based on one's race throughout the fifteenth century. C) The first modern economy dependent primarily on race-based slavery was established by the English in the late 1300s. D) The preoccupation with race-based slavery declined in the late sixteenth century. E) Most of the slaves used by the Portuguese were free laborers who came from different professions.