... and gave the Reichstag the right to approve or reject the budget, contained many conservative safeguards. Most important was the Bundesrat, the assembly of fifty-one representatives from the twenty-five single states. With its seventeen delegates, three more than were necessary for a veto, the Prussian Bundestag delegation alone could abort all legislation coming from a potentially more democratically inclined Reichstag. The ... spot proved insensitive to the identity of Alsatians and Lorrains, particularly when they discovered that the German-speakers there were not happy about being r...

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... figure to lead them, to bring them together. This figure would be Prussia, and in 1834 the confederation established the Zollverein under Prussian leadership. As the revolutions of 1848 spread across Europe, it would be prudent to say that the revolution would make it to the German states. As nationalism and the economy grew, and the middle class wanting more say ... ...

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... , Bismarck was born into a high class family. The family manor was called Schonhausen, in Brandenburg, north of Berlin. Bismarck's father was a nobleman who could trace back his family roots nearly five centuries. Bismarck's mother was of middle class descent, which her ancestors were of either civil servant s or academicians. Before this time marriage of high and middle classes were unheard of ... ...

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... was able to triumph quite easily, ending the war in May of 1866. The following peace settlement humiliated France, laying ground for future conflict. Germany received an indemnity payment of five billion Francs and the territories of Alsace and Lorraine. King Wilhelm I was crowned Emperor of Germany at the Palace of Versailles in January of 1871, completing Bismarck's pursuit of German ... ...

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