During Bill Clinton president's administration, the United States achieved the first budget surplus in 30 years.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
The answer is A because the excerpt talks about how an interference with congress would alarm many states of the union. Thus further meaning if congress got between states and their right to own slaves it would become a bigger problem. The excerpt goes on further to say that it is well within ones rights to own a slave, further implying that Democrats are pushing anti-slavery.
Answer:
A. It was used by the Catholic Church and in academic settings.
Explanation:
Latin was for 20 centuries the official language of the Church. Academic writing and research was published in Latin. Masses were said in Latin, despite the fact that only the clergy and the best educated people (very few people during the Middle Ages) were the only ones who could speak and understand it. It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the Roman Catholic Church authorized masses in the local and national languages of each country.
I am not entirely sure about this one. But I believe that the "Emancipation Manifesto" signed by Czar Alexander II gave serfs land, or at least gave them the freedom to do what they wanted, like buying that said land.
No freedom of religion, or elections was yet to be had in Russia.