Well, sadly, it is effective when it doesn't result in disaster.
Brinksmanship refers to the negotiation practice of letting a situation edge right up to disaster before finding a solution.
It is, however, wildly irresponsible, shortsighted, and often leads to people getting hurt and unnecessary stress.
The answer is B) A series of actions by the Catholic Church intended to spread and defend the Catholic faith.
The counter-reformation was in response to the Protestant reformation, so the first answer is out of the question.
Martin Luthers own actions sparked the Protestant reformation, and as mentioned prior - it was a response to the Protestant reformation (however, during this time they did solidify the power of the pope).
From the 1820s through the 1850s American governmental issues moved toward becoming in one sense more just, in another more prohibitive, and, by and large, more divided and all the more adequately controlled by national gatherings. Since the 1790s, legislative issues turned out to be more majority rule as one state after another finished property capabilities for voting. Legislative issues turned out to be more prohibitive as one state after another formally rejected African Americans from the suffrage. By 1840, every white man could vote in everything except three states (Rhode Island, Virginia, and Louisiana), while African Americans were prohibited from voting in everything except five states and ladies were disfranchised all over the place. In the meantime, political pioneers in a few states started to restore the two-party strife that had been the standard amid the political battles between the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans (1793– 1815). Gatherings and gathering struggle wound up plainly national with Andrew Jackson's crusade for the administration in 1828 and have remained so from that point forward. Gatherings named possibility for each elective post from fence watcher to president and battled valiantly to get them chose.
Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him
Corroborating sources allows a historian to increase the reliability of the information at hand. Having multiple sources in agreement makes it less likely for discrepancy
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