Author Question: The emancipation of the Russian serfs a. left peasants under the authority of the village commune ... (Read 42 times)

mynx · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The emancipation of the Russian serfs

a. left peasants under the authority of the village commune to ensure payment to the State for land.
b. angered peasants because it only gave them six acres each, too little to support themselves.
c. led to Russian participation in the Crimean War in order to divert peasant complaints.
d. led to the 1867 Revolution.
e. was reversed by Czar Nicholas II.

Question 2

The Second Empire in France

a. was a regime of economic hard times.
b. advanced progress made toward French socialism.
c. was brought down by the disastrous 1870 war with Prussia.
d. was replaced by the Third Empire after the Prussian defeat of 1870.
e. was established immediately after the Battle of Waterloo.