Although the 1800s in the United States seems like it was limited in opportunity by today's standards, it was much easier to make a living during this time in US than it was in China.
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia
since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd
insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.
Crowned
on May 26, 1894, Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule,
which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era
desperate for change. The disastrous outcome of the Russo-Japanese War
led to the Russian Revolution
of 1905, which the czar diffused only after signing a manifesto
promising representative government and basic civil liberties in Russia.
However, Nicholas soon retracted most of these concessions, and the
Bolsheviks and other revolutionary groups won wide support. In 1914,
Nicholas led his country into another costly war, and discontent in
Russia grew as food became scarce, soldiers became war-weary, and
devastating defeats on the eastern front demonstrated the czar’s
ineffectual leadership.
In March 1917, the army garrison at
Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and
Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were
first held at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg
palace near Tobolsk. In July 1918, the advance of counterrevolutionary
forces caused the Yekaterinburg Soviet forces to fear that Nicholas
might be rescued. After a secret meeting, a death sentence was passed on
the imperial family, and Nicholas, his wife, his children, and several
of their servants were gunned down on the night of July 16.
In 1493, after reports of Columbus’s discoveries had reached them, the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella enlisted papal support for their claims to the New World in order to inhibit the Portuguese and other possible rival claimants. To accommodate them, the Spanish-born pope Alexander VI issued bulls setting up a line of demarcation from pole to pole 100 leagues (about 320 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands. Spain was given exclusive rights to all newly discovered and undiscovered lands in the region west of the line. Portuguese expeditions were to keep to the east of the line. Neither power was to occupy any territory already in the hands of a Christian ruler.
No other European powers facing the Atlantic Ocean ever accepted this papal disposition or the subsequent agreement deriving from it. King John II of Portugal was dissatisfied because Portugal’s rights in the New World were insufficiently affirmed, and the Portuguese would not even have sufficient room at sea for their African voyages. Meeting at Tordesillas, in northwestern Spain, Spanish and Portuguese ambassadors reaffirmed the papal division, but the line itself was moved to 370 leagues (1,185 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands, or about 46°30′ W of Greenwich. Pope Julius II finally sanctioned the change in 1506. The new boundary enabled Portugal to claim the coast of Brazil after its discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500. Brazilian exploration and settlement far to the west of the line of demarcation in subsequent centuries laid a firm basis for Brazil’s claims to vast areas of the interior of South America.
Answer: The answer is A. We were never at literal war but rather a competition between the Soviet Union. A lot of this led to some amazing things American history. Such as the Apollo missions etc.
