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That body which was often feckless in achieving anything as it required the unanimous approval of its members for decisions to be passed from 1822 onwards
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Federal Convention
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That form of nationalism that the Napoleonic Wars served to inflame more than German nationalism in Prussia?
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Prussian Nationalism
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That country that accrued a crippling budget deficit causing a decline in investment and thus in industrial growth as a result of the 1848 Revolutions and mobilisation during the Crimean War
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Austrian Empire
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A declaration by 51 representatives from Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Nassau, and Frankfurt, published in March 1848 calling for the creation of a German-wide meeting to discuss proposals for political reform
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Declaration of Heidelberg
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The four German states most affected by the 1848 Revolutions in alphabetical order
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Austria, Baden, Bavaria, and Saxony
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The idea that the authority of a monarch is directly ordained by God and therefore cannot be challenged or diluted
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Divine Right
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A constitution proclaimed by King Frederick William IV in December 1848 after dissolving the Prussian National Assembly that appeased many liberal demands, established a bicameral legislature, but preserved the powers of the king to appoint and dismiss ministers and alter the constitution unilaterally
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Constitution of Prussia
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That population which was Europe's most literate in the early to mid 19th century
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Germans
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The constitution by the Frankfurt Parliament that many German states felt comfortable rejecting after Frederick William IV's rejection of the position of German Emperor by the said Parliament discredited the liberals
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Paulskirche Constitution
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The emperor of Austria who abdicated the throne in December 1848 in favour of his nephew Franz Joseph I after uprisings, the failure of his two more liberal manifestos in appeasing protesters, and the defeat of his army in Hungary
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Ferdinand I (1793 - 1875)
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A customs union of many German Confederation states though notably not Austria, which was founded under Prussian leadership in 1834 to facilitate trade between the German states, growing over the 1840's and 50's to include practically all of Germany
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Zollverein
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An uprising of republicans and democrats in Baden in April 1848 which was crushed with the support of Bavarian and Prussian troops
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Hecker Uprising
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That social class which particularly resented the restrictions of the political systems in the German states due to their political exclusion, censorship, and the actions of the secret police
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Middle Class
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A moderate liberal and head of the Austrian State Council who dominated Austria's domestic affairs from 1826 to 1848, being a major opponent of Prince Klemens von Metternich
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Count Franz von Kolowrat (1778 - 1861)
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He who considered liberalism and nationalism to be the forces of destruction
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Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773 - 1859)
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The year in which Prussian, Austrian, and Bavarian outrage over Danish plans to incorporate Schleswig and German Confederation member Holstein into the Kingdom of Denmark, caused the Danish king to abandon the plan
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1846
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The king of Prussia who rejected the position of Emperor offered to him by the Frankfurt Parliament in March 1849
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Frederick William IV (1795 - 1861)
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That which was denied to most of the Austrian population under the newly drafted constitution of April 1848, causing protesters to reject it
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Franchise
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That war in which Prussia remained neutral thus preserving its relations with Russia, Great Britain, and France
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Crimean War
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A solution to the German Question that would include within the borders of a united Germany, all German states though to the exclusion of the entire Austrian Empire, leaving Prussia as the dominant German power
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Kleindeutschland Solution
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