AP European History

S. Rosenberg

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
McKay Chapter 25: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914
1.

How was Germany Unified? Describe Bismarcks methods. What were the longterm results?

2.

Why did nationalism become a universal faith in Europe between 1850 and 1914
and why did it gain support of the broad masses of society?

3.

Why did the voters of France elect Louis Napoleon president in 1848? What were
some of the benefits Napoleon bestowed on his subjects?

4.

Why was Italy before 1860 merely a geographical expression?

5.

What were the three basic approaches to Italian unification? Which one prevailed?

6.

What was the importance of Garibaldis liberation of Sicily and Naples in 1860?

7.

What were the causes of the Austro-Prussian War?

8.

What was the significance of the Zollverein in German history?

9.

Why did Prussian middle-class liberals make an about face and support their old
enemy Bismarck after 1866?

10.

How were territorial expansion and the issue of slavery related in the United
States?

11.

What enabled the North to defeat the South in the Civil War?

12.

What was the status of the Russian serf in the early 19th century? How beneficial
was the reforms of 1861 to the serf?

13.

Why was the Crimean War a turning point in Russian history?

14.

Was the new Germany a democracy? Where did power reside in the Germany of
1871?

15.

What was Bismarcks relationship (after 1871) with the Catholic church? The
liberals? The Socialists?

16.

What were the causes and outcome of the Dreyfus affair in France?

17.

What were the major political developments and issues in Britain and Ireland in the
late 19th century?

18.

How does one account for the rapid growth of socialist parties in Europe in the last
quarter of the 19th century?

19.

What was the purpose of the socialist internationals? What were the general
arguments of the revisionist socialists?

VOCABULARY
Most terms and concepts here can be found in your McKay textbook. Some of
them are not in your textbook and should be looked up from a trusted source.
DEFINE THE FOLLOWING KEY TERMS AND VOCABULARY (These will
almost always be part of the matching portion of your unit test)
1.
2.
3.
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7.
8.

Red Shirts
Zollverein
Homestead Act
modernization
zemstvo
revolution of 1905
Bloody Sunday
October Manifesto

9.
10.
11.
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14.
15.

Duma
Reichstag
Kulturkampf
Dreyfus affair
Peoples Budget
Zionism
revisionism

DEFINE THE FOLLOWING KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS

16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Russian serfdom
authoritarian nationalism
blood and iron
North German Confederation
modernization

21.
22.

German Social Democratic

Party
British Third Reform Bill of
1884

IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE

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24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
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30.

Otto von Bismarck

Benjamin Disraeli
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Emmeline Pakhurst
Jules Ferry
Sergei Witte
Alexander II
Camillio Benso di Cavour

31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.

Edward Bernstein
Alfred Dreyfus
Pius IX
William Gladstone
Giuseppe Garibaldi
William I of Germany
William II of Germany
John Stuart Mill