Germany

Question 1

What was the religious differences in the south German states compared to the north?

Answer 1

South were Catholic

North were protestant

Question 2

How many German states in 1789

Answer 2

314

Question 3

When did the Holy Roman Empire end?

Answer 3

1806

Question 4

When did France annex the territory on the left bank of the Rhine?

Answer 4

1803

Question 5

How many states did France reduce Germany to?

Answer 5

39

Question 6

How many members elected in Frankfurt Parliament?

Answer 6

596

Question 7

When did Clemens Von Metternich become foreign minister of Austria?

Answer 7

1809

Question 8

When did Metternich resign?

Answer 8

1848

Question 9

What festival did nationalist students turn into a nationalism demonstration

Answer 9

In October 1817 some 500 nationalist students converter the Wartburg Festival

Question 10

What did the Carlsbad Decrees do?

Answer 10

• Provided inspectors for universities
• ensured that student societies were disbanded
• introduced press censorship
• threatens radical university lecturers with dismissal

Question 11

How many states were in the zollverein in 1836

Answer 11

25

Question 12

What did the Frankfort parliament aim to do?

Answer 12

It intended to establish a united Germany under a constitutional monarch

Question 13

Why did the Frankfort parliament fail?

Answer 13

• from the start it lacked legal legitimacy
• lacked real muscle. Unable to collect taxation, it hand no financial power. Nor did it have any army
• it was wholly dependent on the goodwill of the member states of the confederation, and their loyalty to the parliament was far from guaranteed
• the parliament was not in tune with the views of the working class