During his long reign, franz josef used many methods to maintain his great habsburg empire. mark the statement if he tried one of the methods below. their may be more than one answer

a. he crushed a revolt by his hungarian subjects and executed their leaders.

b. he refused to agree to a written constitution, even one that maintained all his powers.

c. he split his empire into austrian and hungarian parts, and set up a parliament in budapest.

d. he advanced the rights of his slav subjects, such as czechs, slovaks, croats, and slovenes. e. he increased his possessions in the italian-speaking and german-speaking parts of his empire.

The correct answers are A) he crushed a revolt by his Hungarian subjects and executed their leaders. The other answer is C) he split his empire into Austrian and Hungarian parts and set up a Parliament in Budapest.

During his long reign, Franz Josef used many methods to maintain his great Habsburg empire. Among them were: He crushed a revolt by his Hungarian subjects and executed their leaders. The other method was he split his empire into Austrian and Hungarian parts and set up a Parliament in Budapest.

Franz Josef (1830-1916), ruled the Austria Hungarian empire since 1848. In 1867 created a dual monarchy for Austria-Hungary, granted more autonomy to Hungary. During his tenure, he faced many conflicts and tragedies such as the assasination of his brother Maximilian in Mexico, the death of his son Rudolph, the assasination of his wife Elisabeth, and the assassination of his nephew Franz Ferdinand.