“They were concerned a president could become a tyrant.” Remember that they had JUST fought a war to get rid of a tyrant (The Revolutionary War & King George III). So, they didn’t want to give a lot of power to one person and be in the same situation again.
Answer: D. Many workers were killed when police were ordered to shoot them.
On January 22, 1905, about 200,000 workers and their families approached the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They carried a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas II's general ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd. More than 1,000 were wounded and several hundred were killed. Bloody Sunday provoked a wave of strikes and violence that spread across the country, which led to Nicholas II's reluctant approval of the creation of the Duma(first met in May 1906). Its leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy similiar to Britain. But because he was hesitant to share his power, the Czar dissolved the Duma after ten weeks.
In the West, the completion of the transcontinental railroad greatly benefited the "farming industry," since this meant that farmers could sell their goods to relatively remote locations, which greatly expanded their potential market and increased revenue.
The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen was issued in 1789 by the French National Constituent Assembly. It is a document, which arose from the French Revolution, and contains the human civil rights which are stated to be universal, applicable everywhere and everytime.
The declaration includes the philoshophycal and political ideas of the Enlightment. The following two are the most important ones:
- The social contract concept of Rousseau which states that citizens hold the power of a nation and grant it to representatives and goverments through suffrage. It was a vision that clearly opposed the existent absolut monarchies and ancient regime systems that were operating at the moment.
- The division of powers by Montesquieu, which stated that the power of a nation should be divided in three independent branches: legislative, executive and judiciary, implemented together with a balance system that ensures that none of them gathers enough power to overrule the other branches.
He was sent on a voyage<span> to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia.</span>
