The Scramble for Africa is one example of because countries rushed for land acquisition to expand their empires throughout the world.

A. imperialism
B. militarism
C. alliances
D. nationalism

Option: A. Imperialism      

Explanation:

Many of the European nations rushed to acquire land in Africa. The main reason for the European nations for land acquisition was to expand their empires in Africa. The European countries push into Africa for four main factors, including economic, political, and social. The primary motivation for the European invasion was economic. Germany, France, and Great Britain were some of the countries involved in the scramble for Africa.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

explanation:

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