The correct options are: targeted the empire's non-Russian population - emphasized the use of the Russian language
After the murder of the reformer Alexander II in 1881, the attitude of the Russian authorities towards the national minorities of the adequate empire. The new Tsar, Alexander III, with a more conservative perspective, aimed to create a highly centralized autocratic state. The slightest desire to increase the liberty and autonomy of his subjects was considered as evidence of rebellion.
The principle cause of the war was that those states harbored and supported the actions of pirates against American shipping vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.
