Answer: D. Know-Nothing and Free-Soil
Answer: B) Clipper Ships
Explanation: 1840s had sleek hulls and tall sails-were the pride of the open seas.
They were passed in an effort to prohibit certain actions that lead to
anti-competitiveness.
A small group has a firm control over a country in the kind of government known as B. oligarchy. Monarchy refers to a country which is ruled by a king or queen. Totalitarian society is a regime where the entire system is ruled by a sort of a dictator. Representative democracy is a type of rule where the people elect persons who will represent them in a political body.
It was Lenin.
It cannot be Stalin, because Lenin is his predecessor and it is with Lenin that the central planning and communism was introduced to what was then Russia.
Karl Marx and Engels created together communism, but didn't introduce it specifically to Russia. They wrote their ideas and they spread all around the world and Lenin was inspired by them.