Two Empires and Three Republics
For many years, kings from this family ruled in France.
What is the Bourbon family?
He was a Frenchman who helped the American colonists fight for their independence and wanted to see France free from kings as well.
Who was Lafayette?
Francisco Solano Lopez asked this country to join with him in a fight against Brazil.
What is Argentina?
The North German Confederation did not include this state.
What was Austria?
This new confederation became known as this.
What is the Second Reich?
He was the very last emperor of France.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
France was a monarchy until this year.
What is 1789?
He was a missionary from Scotland that went to Africa in hopes to bring medical help and preach the gospel.
Who was David Livingstone?
He was the third German emperor and was a violent, quarrelsome and quick-tempered bully.
Who was Wilhelm II?
This is the German name for king.
What is Kaiser?
After Napoleon, two kings from this family claimed the throne of France and continued to rule over the first French empire.
Who were the Bourbon family?
The Second Empire of France, which was under the rule of Louis-Napoleon, fought with the British against this country.
What is Russia?
This family ruled Japan for over 200 years.
Who were to Tokugawa?
This is why Germans called their confederation the "Second Reich" or "Second Kingdom".
Prussia attacked this former ally.
Who was Austria?
This describes 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 France remained from 1870 on.
What is a republic?
This is how the 13th Amendment to the Constitution changed the United States.
What is it made slavery illegal for all of the states in the Union?
This defines a confederacy.
What is the states agree together to elect. officials who will be in charge of dealing with foreign countries and other matters that affect all of the states? (Each state stays independent, with its own government and its own identity.)
This is why the German states did not allow Wilhelm to call himself the Emperor of Germany.
Why is because non of the German states wanted to belong to a country called "Germany"?
This caused the second French Empire to end.
What is the second French Empire ended when teh Prussians captured Napoleon III?
This is why Louis-Napoleon took power away from the assembly.
What is because they wouldn't give him all the money he wanted, and they wouldn't agree to let him run for president a second time?
This is why Russian and Great Britain were so interested in Afghanistan.
Why is because Afghanistan lay between Russian and British run India and neither country wanted the other to control Afghanistan?
This is how Otto von Bismarck earned the nickname of the "Iron Chancellor".
What is when he announced that Prussia would become the strongest of the German states no "by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron"?
This is why Friedrich was disturbed by Prussia's overwhelming influence on the German states.
What is he felt that Bismarck had made Prussia great and powerful by making them conquerors and destroyers? He thought the rest of the world did not love or respect the Prussians, but only feared them.