Explain how the protestant reformation contributed to the rise of absolutism

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According to the text, the Protestant Reformation contributed to the rise of absolutism because the conflicts and wars made monarchs rise to power and instituted an absolutist form of government, which means that the king was the absolute ruler with no rivalry at all. The king exerted total control over the reign. Nations needed the order to be reestablished again after so much turmoil and the absolute monarchy was the answer. The kings weakened the pope's power, the influence of the Catholic Church and the Roman Empire in general. Some kings appointed themselves as head of the Protestant churches in their kingdoms.  

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i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years