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Breakdown of the
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Italian Unification
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Nationalism and
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Nationalism in the United States
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What are the two european countries that would achieve unification by 1871?
Germany and Italy
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What empire dominated the Italian Peninsula in 1850?
The Austrian Empire
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To what German state did most Germans look to for leadership in the effort to unify all of Germany?
Prussia
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What did British Parliament do that helped keep Britain stable?
Parliament passed a bill into law that increased the number of male voters, chiefly from the industrial middle class.
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What were the two factions in the United States that fought bitterly over the division of power in the new government, and what did each faction want the government to be like?
The Federalists who wanted a strong central government, and the Republicans who wanted the federal government to be subordinate to the state governments.
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What 1853 war between Russia on one side and the Ottoman Empire, England, and France on the other, upset the balance of power in Europe?
The Crimean War
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What is the Northern Italian kingdom that was seen as the best place to begin the independence and unification movement in Italy?
The Piedmont
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What Prussian led the German unification movement?
Otto von Bismarck
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Who ruled Great Britain in the 1850s and 1860s? How many years did she reign? What is the name used to describe the era when she ruled?
Queen Victoria 64 years The Victorian Age
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What put an end to the political divisions in the U.S. and created a surge of nationalism in America?
The War of 1812.
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What group that attempted to maintain the conservative status quo in Europe, ended as a result of the Crimean War?
The Concert of Europe
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Who was the king of Piedmont in 1849?
King Victor Emmanuel II
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What country won the Franco-Prussian War? What did the losing side have to give up to the winners?
Prussia. 5 billion Francs ($1,000,000,000) and the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.
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What is a plebiscite?
An election in which people can vote yes or no to a proposition.
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Whose election as President of the United States eventually led to suffrage for almost all adult white males?
Andrew Jackson
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Who is described as "one of the most colorful leaders in the struggle to unify Italy?"
Giuseppi Garibaldi
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Who led the independence and unification movement in Northern Italy?
Camilo di Cavour
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What title did William I of Prussia take when Germany finally became unified?
Kaiser or emperor
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What was the Compromise of 1867?
It created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
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What is the movement to end slavery in America called?
Abolitionism
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What is considered one of the main reasons for unification of Germany and Italy?
The Crimean War
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With whom did Cavour form an alliance in order to defeat the Austrians?
Louis-Napoleon of France
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Explain "realpoilitik"
The politics of reality, or politics based on practical matters rather than on theory or ethics.
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What did Russia's Emancipation Edict do?
It freed the serfs.
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"What did Abraham Lincoln say in a 1858 speech he made in his home state of Illinois?
"This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. It will become all one thing or all the other.