In 1861, Alexander II issued the Emancipation Edict, which abolished serfdom and ended centuries of peasants being tied to the land. The edict, however, did little to ease the poverty of former serfs, and Alexander was eventually assassinated by a group of anti-monarchists.

Although all of the answers are among Pedro II's accomplishments and initiatives as the last emperor of Brazil, the abolition of slavery was the most upsetting one to landowners, who feared economic repercussions. The abolition of slavery as an institution is not to be confused with the abolition of the slave trade, which occurred earlier in Pedro II's reign.

This famous image depicts the October March of 1789, also known as the Women's March on Versailles. The march was a protest of food shortages fueled by growing anger at the French monarchy, and it was led largely by working class women. These women can be identified in the image by the plain clothes that they wear, and while one woman on the left does appear to be dressed more extravagantly, she is more likely to be a member of the bourgeoisie than a royal like Marie Antoinette. The October March was a symptom of the same problems that caused other popular uprisings that year, such as the storming of the Bastille and the Great Fear, but neither of those events featured women so prominently. The Tennis Court Oath did not involve women at all, as they were not allowed to be members of the Estates General.

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Although a weakening China suffered many military defeats during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, none were as crippling to its government and global standing as the Opium Wars. Not only did these wars pave the way for foreign powers to divide China into their own spheres of influence, but they also emboldened angry civilians to rise up against their weak government. This trend continued with the Boxer Rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century, which also had disastrous effects.

Most revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were intimately connected to the Enlightenment, the intellectual movement that had recently swept through Europe. Many Enlightenment thinkers believed that man has a natural right to self-governance, which made republicanism attractive, while monarchy and imperialism became increasingly unacceptable. After these revolutions first broke out in America and France, many countries in central and South America were inspired to follow suit.

The Meiji Restoration is the name given to the restoration of imperial rule under the control of Emperor Meiji in 1868. The practical goal of the Meiji Restoration was to rapidly modernize and industrialize Japanese society. It led to the emergence of Japan as a modern, militaristic power by the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1793) was a seminal work of the French Revolution. It provided the framework for the first constitution of the French Republic.

The Thermidorian Reaction occurred in the summer of 1794. It was a reaction to the excesses and violence of the Reign of Terror. The Thermidorian Reaction resulted in the downfall of Robespierre, the dissolution of the Committee of Public Safety, and the end of the Reign of Terror.

Camillo di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi were instrumental in the process of Italian unification that was completed in 1871. Cavour had been prime minister of Piedmont before Italian unification. Garibaldi was a military commander who led many campaigns for Italian independence.

Muhammad Ali is remembered for establishing the modern nation of Egypt and reigning over the territory from 1805 until 1848. His reign was marked by modernizing reforms and a dedicated effort to design an Egyptian State that could compete with the industrial powers of Europe. The dynasty he established would rule Egypt until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.