Edexcel History 4. The Unification of Germany I

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The month in which King Frederick William IV of Prussia appointed a liberal ministry, and made political concessions including agreeing to summoning a constituent assembly elected by universal suffrage to map out a new Prussian constitution, in response to the 1848 Revolution in Prussia

That revolution in which the principal demands were for an elected representative government and the unification of Germany

That nation that was fearful of the rise of German nationalism due to the belief that it could serve as a catalyst to provoke more persistent nationalist demands from the empire's minorities

A treaty following the First Schleswig War in 1848 that forced Prussia and the Frankfurt Parliament to accept the Danish annexation of Schleswig, losing the latter much public support

A Marxist analysis of society in which different social classes compete with one another for political control of the state

That body which the German rulers were originally willing to accept believing it was the only way to preserve their thrones, only to turn against it once the threat had subsided

A customs union designed to compete against the Prussian Customs Union, a goal in which it was unsuccessful due to the actions of Prussian Finance Minister (1825 - 30) Friedrich von Motz

An 1848 plan by Prussian General Radowitz with the approval of what was to become the 'Alliance of the Three Kings' to form a federal Reich based on the Paulskirche Constitution under a Prussian emperor with a special relationship with Austria

That system introduced in 1848 for elections in Prussia in which men aged 21 or over were split into three classes, equal in the amount of tax revenue they paid, elected a third of the Parliament each, with 4.7% of the population in the first class, 12.7% in the second, and 82.6% in the third

That German state which was the dominant economic power by 1848 due in no small part to the Zollverein

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An 1847 meeting of various liberal figures from across the German states which met to discuss proposals for democratisation within their territories, including an elected national assembly to control and restrict autocratic monarchs

The number of those who died on 18th September 1848 when a radical mob tried to storm the Paulskirche, defended by Austrian, Prussian, and Hessian troops, resulting in a reactionary surge within the Frankfurt Parliament

That incarnation of a German state otherwise known as the Third Reich

Those two states that together had formed a customs union in southern Germany, in alphabetical order

The electoral issue that divided the Prussian right-wing liberals and left-wing liberals due to debate over whether or not widening it would invite revolution

One of the members of the Erfurt Union, which - after the outbreak of revolution in 1850 - the elector and head of government Hans Hassenpflug requested the Federal Convention intervene causing a diplomatic and small-scale military crisis between Austria and Prussia

The proportion by which Prussian foreign trade, railway building, and industrial development grew in the 1850's due to plentiful resources of chemicals, coal, iron, &c., good education, the Zollverein, and efficient transport networks

The phrase reputedly said by King Frederick William IV of Prussia in describing the German crown offered to him by the Frankfurt Parliament, which he refused due to its illegitimacy, and that it would have antagonised other powers and bound him to a constitutional body he had no wish to encourage

A series of food riots in Berlin in 1847

That incarnation of a German state otherwise known as the Second Reich