Edexcel History 4. The Unification of Germany I

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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

A work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which much inspired some of the middle and working class unrest during the 1848 Revolutions

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

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

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

The king of Prussia who rejected the position of Emperor offered to him by the Frankfurt Parliament in March 1849

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 series of food riots in Berlin in 1847

That region of Prussia in which was centred a large amount of its industry and resources, which - alongside its central location within the German Confederation - allowed the 1818 Prussian Customs Union to become so succesful

That which could best describe the situation from 1846 to 1847 caused by disastrous corn harvests and severe potato blight - part of the wider hungry forties

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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

An 1849 proposal by Austrian Minister President Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg to establish a customs union between Austria and the Zollverein which - like his later 1851 proposal for a customs union of German states then outside the Zollverein - failed to materialise

A series of revolutions sparked by the July Revolution in Paris that saw some German states acquiesce to pressure and grant more liberal constitutions (where there were existing constitutions)

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

The decade, during the first half of which, the Prussian Customs Unions' two competing customs unions collapsed with many of their members joining the newly formed Zollverein

A 19th century debate over the best path to German unification as well as the borders a united Germany should take

That Prussian electoral system which caused much over-representation of middle class liberals within the electorate and in the legislature

An 1849 agreement to join in union (Erfurt Union) between the kings of Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover, the latter two of which reserved the right to abandon said union unless all other German states excluding Austria joined

A solution to the German Question that would include within the borders of a united Germany, all those provinces of the Austrian Empire with a predominantly German speaking population (though some wished to include the whole Austrian Empire), leaving Austria the dominant German power

That war in which Austria acted as an anti-Russian non-belligerent, earning it the loss of its alliance with Russia while remaining aloof from Great Britain and France