... grain from Russia and the United States competitive on the German market, thus threatening the precarious economic position of the slightly backward Junker domains. The tariff question and the issue of long-term military spending split the liberals into an outspokenly nationalist wing dominated by heavy industry and a democratic left. The workers: Another group not easily integrated into the empire were the workers. Intensive industrialization since the 1850s had increased the size of Germany ... on to B.2. Bismarck himself prepared a broad outline-the 1866 North German Constitution, (t...

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... -disgusted by Mazzini's treatment of the Pope and the reforms he issued - invaded the Roman Republic and restored the Pope as leader. However, in Germany the main problem was not expelling foreign troops, but of deciding what exactly constitutes the German nation. A National Assembly that included representatives of all German states in the German confederation was set up, with the aim of writing a constitution for a united German nation. However, problems soon ... emerged when people demanded, what is the German nation? Langewiesche in his essay Germany and the national question in 184...

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