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Chapter 10 Vocab.
History Chapter 10 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Giuseppe Mazzini | Italian patriot; formed nationalist group called Young Italy to fight for the unification of the seperate Italian states into one nation. |
| Camilio di Cavour | Italian statesman and premier of the kingdom of Sardinia; architect of the Italian unification movement in the late 1800s |
| Giueseppe Garibaldi | Italian military and nationalist leader; he unified the southern states of Italy and joined them to the north to form the United Kingdom of Italy |
| Red Shirts | Army of volunteer troops led by Giuseppe Garibaldi; in 1860 they attacked the island of Sicily and won it for the italians |
| Victor Emmanuel | King of Sardinia - Piedmont from 1849 to 1861 and king of Italy from 1861 to 1878; he was the first king of the United Italy |
| Fredrick Wilhelm IV | King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861; when revolution broke out in Prussia in 1848, Fredrick Wilhelm promised a constitution and other reforms, which he later disavowed |
| Zollverein | An economic alliance of most German states in 1834; allowed for free trade among themselves and common tariffs on imports, exports and transit |
| Otto von Bismarck | German statesman; he became the leading force behind german unification. His main political goal was for Prussia to gain power over Austria |
| Wilhelm I | King of Prussia from 1861 to 1888 and Emperor of Germany from 1871 to 1888; he chose Otto von Bismarck as Prussia's Prime Minister, and together they unified Germany |
| Realpolitik | "The Politics of Reality"; the belief in practical goals instead of theory in political philosophy |
| Franco-Prussian War | A war fought between France and Prussia that ended in the defeat of France and the unification of Germany |
| Franz Joseph I | Emperor of Austria-Hungary from 1848 to 1916; during his long reign he took small steps to address the democratic and nationalist aspirations of his people |
| Magyars | A Hungarian Ethnic Group |
| Dual Monarchy | Austria Hungary (1867-1918), two separate, equal states ruled by one monarch |
| Young Turks | Turkish reformist and nationalist political party active in the early 20th century |
| Autocracy | A government in which the ruler holds absolute power |
| Serfs | Peasants who were legally bound to their lord's land |
| Alexander II | Czar of Russia from 1855-1851; he freed the russian serfs and passed other liberal reforms in Russia |
| Pogroms | The organized persecutions and massacres of Jews in Russia in the 1800s |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | Raiload, begun in 1891, linking western Russia to siberia in the east |
| Socialist Republic | A type of republic in which there is no private property and the state owns and distributes all goods to people |
| Vladimir Lenin | Russian Revolutionary and founder of Bolshevism; he rose to power in Russia following the russian revolution in 1917 |
| Bloody Sunday | January 22,1905, the day the czarist troops fired on protestors at the winter palace, igniting the Russian Revolution in 1905 |
| Duma | The Russian assembly formed after the revolution of 1905 in charge of approving all laws |
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