During his long reign he used many methods to try to maintain his great Habsburg empire. Mark the statement if he tried one of the methods below.

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.