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1

Cavour and Piedmont were initially supported by France in their efforts to gain Italian territory from Austria. _____
A)True
B)False
2

Garibaldi and his civilian warriors marched toward Rome dressed in blue shirts. _____
A)True
B)False
3

Rome was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy when it was declared in 1861. _____
A)True
B)False
4

By 1853, every German state except for Austria had joined the Zollverein. _____
A)True
B)False
5

Liberals served as Bismarck’s allies in the Prussia legislature. _____
A)True
B)False
6

Bismarck became chancellor of Prussia in 1862. _____
A)True
B)False
7

Bismarck purposefully chose to proclaim the new German empire at Versailles in France because of its symbolic power. _____
A)True
B)False
8

Prussia’s defeat of French troops in 1871 did not affect French domestic politics. _____
A)True
B)False
9

The new German Empire established in 1871 was known as the second Reich. _____
A)True
B)False
10

In the United States, the north favored states’ rights, while the south favored federal power. _____
A)True
B)False
11

The American civil war was the bloodiest war fought in the Western world since the end of the Napoleonic era. _____
A)True
B)False
12

The French National Assembly changed the constitution in 1851 to allow Louis-Napoleon to serve a second term as president. _____
A)True
B)False
13

Napoleon III took special measures and enacted reforms to gain the support of the middle and working classes. _____
A)True
B)False
14

The Russian army and navy attacked the Ottoman Empire in 1853 with the hope of gaining control over the Turkish Straits. _____
A)True
B)False
15

Austria was the last European country to abolish serfdom. _____
A)True
B)False
16

Cavour participated in the Crimean War against Russia (1854) mainly in order to gather support from France and Britain for his eventual plans for Italian unification. _____
A)True
B)False
17

The British North American Act of 1867 united Canada into a single province that remained under strict British supervision and control. _____
A)True
B)False
18

Tsar Alexander III's "Great Reforms" transformed Russia virtually overnight into a modern, democratic state. _____
A)True
B)False





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