What statement best describes the influence of catherine the great on russia?
a) she made diplomatic efforts to acquire a warm - water port on the black sea.
b) she studied western ideas but did nor encourage russians to adopt them.
c) she allied with austria and prussia to protect the territory of poland - lithuania.
d) she embarked on a program of reform of government, law, and education.

The major impact third parties have on presidential elections has been to.. a. encourage larger vote turnout b. recruiter leader from the democratic and republican party to run for president c. generate increased party identification among the electorate d. developing issues that are later adopted by the major political parties e. drawn off of votes from the major parties to throw election into the house representatives