<span> He modernized the country, importing western technology and ideas. He also turned it into European power, by defeating Sweden( a local superpower of that day) in the Great Northern War. Finally, he established royal authority over the church.
Other, minor reforms, included having the nobility shave their beards.Finally, and perhaps most famously,he built the city of Saint Petersburg, later Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg again.
On the negative side, he was a paranoid tyrant who solidified Czarist absolutism, but as Lenin later said, to make an omelette, one has to break a few eggs. </span>
The fact that the government is divided into three branches is known as the "division of power" - the power is distributed to avoid power abuse, so that no instance has unlimited power.
The fact that the three branches are overlapping is known as "checks and balances" - the branches check the other ones (whether their function is lawful) and balance each other.
Progrssivism has been completely hijacked by socialist/communism. Progressivism used to be the methodology of the Republicans. Look up Teddy Roosevelt. Read HG Wells Outline of History. It explains true Progressive movement and Communism disguised as Socialism.
So that the military troops could be sent more food
The correct answer id C , 'the largest wave of riots in U.S. history broke out
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