Answer:
A) Extending control over the economy
Explanation:
Both monarchs wanted to have powerful countries: they built magnificent palaces to glorify their power (Versailles and Saint Petersburg), engaged in wars to add more territories, and forced nobility to westernize to improve armies for example, but both failed or missed to give strength and health to country economy, and increased poverty levels in their populations, as all these improvement goals rendered a lot of expenses to the State.
Answer:
Kipling clearly liked the idea of enslaving the people of one Asian country on the other side of the world. The White Man's Burden was written with the sole intention of persuading Americans not to give freedom to the Philippines. On the other hand the political cartoon is obviously is showing that the white man is carrying all other races on his back, and that without him they wouldn't prosper.
Explanation:
This poem was once very popular. It was written in 1899, at a time when Filipinos were fighting for independence from the United States of America. Many readers today are probably not aware of the fact that the United States colonized the Philippines.
Poem is, by modern standards, extremely offensive. The author calls the population of another race "freshly caught, frowned upon people" who are "half devil and half children." He criticizes them for not accepting white people as "better than themselves" and those who "brought them to the light of day" by colonization.
"White man's burden" is a term synonymous with English imperialism and racism in the English-speaking world today.
Explanation:
The Preamble is the opening statement to the United States Constitution. The preamble explains the reasons why the Framers of the Constitution made our government a republic. By doing this, the founding fathers replaced the Articles of Confederation
The price of oil doubled per barrel, then quadrupled and challenged the stability of the whole national economy.
<span>They were nearly worthless by this time. With the numerous different types of money in circulation at the time and the valuation of this money at some 2.5% (1/40) their face value, the idea of having paper money was almost useless to the early American citizen.</span>
