New Nation States
What countries consolidated into new unified nation-states during the years 1859-1871?
Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, United States, Canada, (Romania and Serbia)
What countries were involved in the Crimean War?
Ottoman Empire, Russia, Great Britain, France, Sardinia, and Austria (Empire)
What was the term for the legal immunity that Europeans and Americans residing in Japan experienced under the treaties that the Japanese signed in the 1850s?
extraterritoriality
Who was known as the man of iron and blood?
Otto von Bismarck
In what year was Canada granted its “dominion status”?
1867
Who was the revolutionary leader who helped Camillo di Cavour unify Italy, and what was his army called?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Red Shirts
What were the three short wars that led to the unification of Germany?
The Schleswig War of 1864
The Seven Weeks War
The Franco –Prussian War
What is the name for the period following the American Civil War, in which Northerners poured into the defeated south and attempted to “press liberty and equality upon a recalcitrant country”?
Reconstruction
Who was the national leader who went to war with Austria in order to gain back popularity he had lost by invading Mexico?
Napoleon III
What six nationalities lived in Austria and what five nationalities lived in Hungary during the dual monarchy?
Austria – Germans, Slovenes, Czechs, Poles, Ruthenians, Italians
Hungary – Magyars, Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, and Transylvanians
What is the name of the king who appointed Otto von Bismarck as his new chief minister in 1862 (nicknamed the “red reactionary”?) (Hint you won’t find his actual name in this chapter, but it is mentioned in Chapter 12.
Frederick William IV of Prussia
What is the name of the telegram that Bismarck abridged in order to provoke France into war against Prussia on July 19, 1870?
The Ems Dispatch
What was the term for the provincial and district councils that were locally elected in Russia under Alexander II?
Zemstvos
What is the name of the military leader who threatened use of force in order to get an Eastern country to do business with the Western world?
Commodore Matthew Perry
List three ways and three years in which dissatisfied Russian revolutionaries attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II.
1866 – shot at
1873- five shots fired at him
1880 – imperial dining room dynamited
1881 – killed by a bomb.
After Canada, what other British colonies were granted dominion status and in what years was their status granted?
Australia (1901)
New Zealand (1907)
Union of South Africa (1910)
Ireland (temporarily in 1920s)
What was the pre-civil war agreement in the United States that “aroused abolitionist sentiment to a higher pitch” and demand the immediate and total elimination of slavery?
The Compromise of 1850
What is the term for a direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution?
plebiscite
Who was the national leader who rapidly turned his country into a modern nation state by embracing the science, technology, and organizational methods of the European nations?
Mutsuhito
What territories did dissatisfied Italian nationalists consider to be the Italia irredenta after the unification of 1870.
Trentino, Trieste, certain Dalmation Islands, Nice, Savoy.
On what date and in what room of what building was the unified German Empire officially proclaimed?
January 18, 1871
Hall of Mirrors
Palace of Versailles
What two domains were bombarded and destroyed by western governments when the Tokugawa shogunate proved unable to discipline them for relatively minor incidents?
Choshu and Satsuma
What is the German word for the Compromise of 1867 that regulated the relations between Austria and Hungary and established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary?
Ausgleich
What is the name of the national leader who sought to unify his country through an intensive development of railways and canals and by introducing a system of “responsible government
Earl of Durham
What were the provisions of the edict that Alexander II signed into effect on the same day that he was assassinated by members of the People’s Will?
Two nationally elected commissions to sit with the council of state.