Why Was Russia Able to Free Its Serfs Practically Without

question 25

Multiple Choice

Why was Russia able to free its serfs practically without bloodshed,yet in the United States,it took a civil war to free the slaves?

• A)Russian serf owners did not have guns.
• B)American slaveholders were violent people by nature.
• C)There were not as many Russian serfs as there were American slaves.
• D)Tsar Alexander II moved the army quickly to take control of the whole country.
• E)The Russian government exercised more centralized authority than the U.S.government,and the Russian nobility did not consider private property a fundamental right the way Americans did.

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