Chapter 25: 1st Homework Assignment
Read pages 823 to 833. Stop at Nation building in the United States.
Answer the following questions:
1. How did President Louis Napoleon become Emperor Napoleon III?
2. Which groups in French society were most supportive of the Second French
Empire at first? Why?
3. What were some of the more liberal programs initiated by Napoleon III in
the 1860s? Which groups in France were opposed to these reforms?
4. Why might Giuseppe Mazzini be called the "heart" of the Italian unification
movement?
5. Identify the steps that Cavour took to unite Italy. How did he differ from
Mazzini in his program for Italian unification?
6. What role did Napoleon III and the Pope have in the unification of Italy?
What were their motives?
7. What were the results of the Austro-Sardinian War?
8. Why was Cavour considered to be the "brains" of the Italian unification
movement and Garibaldi its "sword?"
9. How was Italy finally united in 1870?
10. What problems still troubled Italy after unification?
11. Why was Prussia the dominant state in the movement for German
unification?
12. What was Bismarck's political outlook? Describe the nature and outcome of
his dispute with the liberals in the Prussian parliament.
13. What was the meaning of Bismarck's famous "blood and iron" statement?
14. Why did Prussia and Austria go to war in 1866? What was the outcome?
15. What were some of the differences between the northern and the southern
German states?
16. What did Bismarck hope to accomplish by a war with France? How was he
able to precipitate such a war? What role did the Ems Dispatch play in the
conflict?
17. On what side did the southern German states fight? Why did France loose
the Franco-Prussian War? What were the results?
18. How was Bismarck's approach to German unification different from Cavour's
approach to Italian unification? How was it similar?