Exam 19: Nationalism and Statebuilding: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870

Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed Russian serfs because

The proposal by William I of Prussia to double the size of the army set in motion the crises that led to Bismarck's becoming prime minister.

The Russian tsar who decreed the end of serfdom in Russia was ________.

The major issue that divided North and South in the United States was

Napoleon III granted universal male suffrage during the Second Empire.

What were the major steps that led to Italian unification?

Late nineteenth century European nationalism

As part of an aggressive foreign policy, Napoleon III did all of the following except

In the nineteenth century, Russia was regarded as less conservative than Austria.

Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, chronicled the horrors of which war?

Florence Nightingale gained fame for nursing wounded soldiers in the Crimean War.

In the 1850s nationalism proved itself to be the strongest political force in Europe, much stronger than either liberalism or conservatism.

Two central and southern European states that suffered from potential disintegration because of the problems of nationalism were

___________ was the issue that most divided the North and the South in the American Civil War.

The city of Paris physically deteriorated under Napoleon III as he ignored its needs to pursue his adventurous foreign policy.

The major effect of nationalism during the nineteenth century was

Prior to the Civil War in the United States, the South depended more and more upon what as its primary economic staple?

In what ways was nationalism decisive in the Austrian and Ottoman empires?

The American Civil War lasted _______ years.

Canada gained its independence from Great Britain in 1867.