Answer:The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. ... It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
Apparatchiks or high government officials
The best answer is, Gave power to the peasants.
French King Louis XIV, the Sun King, was known as his counterparts as a strong adversary who was cemented in self-belief, Louis XIV believed he was the one to bring the French state into a new period of success and dominance.
He accomplished this by first, securing total power and lessening the influence of French nobility. Louis XIV moved the French court from Paris, where almost all nobility lived happily, to the Versaille a developing country estate where he would make all government decisions. Louis XIV expanded French influence abroad by engaging in four major wars against traditional European rivals the English, Spanish and Dutch, as well as many other minor military engagements As a result of the massive nation-building enterprise of Louis XIV the state of France was left with a great deal of debt upon his death.
I believe 1,2,3 are correct.