Use of cavalry and police shows which political limitation of the government?

Correct answer: It depended on force instead of dialogue

The deployment of cavalry and police against demonstrators indicates that the government was attempting to preserve its authority through coercion rather than through negotiation or political reform. This is a limitation because a government that relies mainly on force may still control streets temporarily, but it does not resolve the causes of opposition or rebuild legitimacy. Option A correctly identifies this dependence on repression instead of dialogue. Option B is contradicted by the use of force, while options C and D describe actions unrelated to the evidence in the question. The event is important in understanding the weakness of Tsarist rule: the state possessed instruments of coercion, but its inability to secure consent made those instruments increasingly ineffective when mass opposition expanded.