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Russians declined the changes or progress that threatened their privileges and their society is widely controlled by landlords and landowning nobles. Their social structure is also very rigid. 
The main chunk of Russians were laborers who are confined to the land and are masters who controlled their fate. The middle class people were too small as a group in order to have an impact or influence any effective changes in their society. The French revolution and the Enlightenment were bringing about liberal and nationalist changes but it didn’t affect the Russian dictatorship.  
 
        
             
        
        
        
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People turned to religion and spiritualism to cope with the unprecedented number of deaths.
Many clergy in the North professed that the war was God's instrument to rid the nation of slavery and turn it into the true land of freedom.
 
        
             
        
        
        
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As he saw it, Louis XIV's most important characteristics were his tenacity for hard work and his wise selection of people capable of carrying out his work.
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The transcontinental railroad transformed the west because it made the idea of manifest destiny so much easier to achieve. The railroads also gave access to many trade spots, which in result connected them all, making the economy of America BOOM.