So, what was the key issue in 1848 in the German assembly in Frankfurt?

The Habsburg kings ruled over an extremely diverse array of peoples from different ethnic backgrounds; this made their empire vulnerable to any outburst of popular nationalism.

For Bismarck, as minister-president of Prussia from 1862 to 1871, unifying German lands was an important political goal, he believed that the preservation of democratic institutions was important than making strong Prussian military.

The Habsburg emperor, Francis Joseph, was forced to make a(n) ___________ or settlement with the Hungarians, the empire’s largest minority, following the Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War.

Realpolitik became a watchword of the 1850's and 60's and was closely associated with Otto von Bismarck.

This view (Realpolitik) meant that giving ways to achieve and maintain power was less important than moral or ideological goals such as justice or freedom.

Please identify the slave states and territory in 1850!

MANIFEST DESTINY: First coined by a newspaper, this idea encouraged Americans to move westward and to settle in lands that would eventually be brought into the United States. This became the dominant idea behind western settlement and the incorporation of new states into the union.

As the country expanded west, North and South engaged in a protracted tug of war about whether new states were to be “free” or “slave.” In the North, territorial expansion heightened calls for __________ ; in the South it deepened whites’ commitment to an economy and society based on _______________.

After these compromises, the disputes between the north states and south states, led to the outbreak of _________ in 1861.

Though the war brought the South back into the Union, the rise of northern capitalism magnified the backwardness of the South as an underdeveloped agricultural region whose wealth was extracted by northern industrialists.