Queen Victoria of England Ascended to the Throne in 1837

question 38

Multiple Choice

Queen Victoria of England ascended to the throne in 1837 and became one of the country's most successful monarchs,in no small measure because she:

• A)met with her subjects regularly in very informal settings to find out what she could do to help them.
• B)embodied the traits important to the middle class,whose habits of mind we now call Victorian.
• C)waged a successful series of wars with virtually every nation in Europe to wipe out the last vestiges of Marxist thought.
• D)bowed to public pressure and reestablished Roman Catholicism as the state religion of Great Britain.
• E)returned to the principle of absolutism that had been abandoned by the British monarchy two centuries earlier.

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