Peter the Great recognized the weaknesses of the Russian state and aspired to reform it following Western European models. ... While the tsar did not abandon Orthodoxy as the main ideological core of the state, he started a process of westernization of the clergy and secular control of the church.
As long as he or she is registered, he or she can vote.
Railroads brought crops and food to cities in the East, and settlers to farms in the Great Plains
The Open Door Notes - sent by U.S. Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 to open up Chinese ports to American merchants. European powers had "spheres of influence" in different port cities throughout China, and the United States wanted access to China's markets.
A. To finance their growing empire.
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The British directly taxed the colonists in 1764 (post-French and Indian War) to pay off their debt, thus raising money for Britain.
