French monarchy and revolution
For many years kings from this family ruled France.
Who is the royal Bourbon family?
This man was a Frenchman who helped the American colonists fight for their independence and wanted to see France free from kings as well.
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
This is the definition of a constitutional monarchy.
What is a country that has a king, but the king must obey a written set of laws, instead of doing whatever he pleases?
This is what the loose group of 38 German-speaking states were called in 1870.
What was a confederation?
This was Otto von Bismarck's nickname and why.
What was "Iron Chancellor" because he announced that Prussia would become the strongest German state not "by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron."
The French monarchy ended in this year or with this event.
When is 1789 or what is the French Revolution?
These were the 2 things Charles X did to anger his people.
What were he did not listen to people and told newspapers what they could and could not publish?
This is why Louis-Napoleon took power away from the assembly.
What is they wouldn't give him all the money he wanted, and they wouldn't agree to let him run for president for a second time?
This is the definition of confederacy.
What is when states are together to elect officials who will be in charge of dealing with foreign countries and other matters that affect all the states, but each state stays independent, with its own government and its own identity?
This is why the German states would not allow Wilhelm to call himself the Emperor of Germany.
What is none of the states wanted to belong to a country called Germany?
The first French Empire was ruled by this man.
Who was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte?
This was the name of the Revolution that forced Charles X to flee.
What was Three Glorious Days or Les Trois Glorieuses?
This caused the second French Empire to end.
What is when the Prussians captured Napoleon III?
This is what Otto von Bismarck wanted to make Prussia into.
What is he wants to make Prussia the ruling states of the confederacy?
This why the Germans called their confederation the "Second Reich" or "Second Kingdom."
What was they believed that their new kingdom was thee successor of the Holy Roman empire, which had been the "First Reich?"
These were the 3 forms of government France had prior to 1871.
What were a monarchy, an empire, and a republic?
This is why Louis-Philippe was called the "Citizen King."
What is because he was supposed to act only by the wishes of the people?
On what country did Emperor Napoleon III declare war?
What is Prussia?
The North German Confederation did not include this state.
This man was the third German emperor and was a violent, quarrelsome, quick-tempered bully.
Who was Wilhelm II?
This is the form of government the French got rid of during the French Revolution.
What is the monarchy?
This is why Louis-Philippe's enemies gathered in Paris.
What was they wanted to throw their "Citizen King" out and go back to being a republic?
Louis-Napoleon was take prisoner with this many soldiers by Prussia.
What is 100,000?
The new confederation became known as this.
What is the Second Reich?
This is why Friedrich was disturbed by Prussia's overwhelming influence on the German states.
What were:
1. He felt Bismarck had made Prussia great and powerful by making them conquerors and destroyers.
2. He thought the rest of the world did not love and respect the Prussians, but feared them.
3. He felt Bismarck had robbed the Prussians of their friends, sympathies of the world and their conscience?