napoleon's impact on europe

The Age of Imperialism.notebook October 09, 2015

Napoleon's Impact on Europe

Napoleon made various changes in

German-speaking lands.

He took the Rhineland from

Germany.

He dissolved the Holy Roman

Empire and lessened the power of

Austria’s king.

He brought Enlightenment ideals to

Germany.

Freed serfs, encouraged trade, and

abolished an#-Semi#c laws.

As people fought Napoleonic rule, a

sense of German na#onalism emerged.

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Otto von Bismarck

Where others failed, Otto von Bismarcksucceeds in unifying Germany

Prime Minister of Prussia

"The greatest questions of the day arenot to be decided by speeches... but byblood and iron."


Austria and attacks it in 1866.


Bismarck and Napoleon III - trash talk

Napoleon declares war Prussia...asBismarck planned

Prussia smashes France

France must pay reparations

France must give up Rhineland

unite

Kaiser Wilhelm I will lead Germany

This is the Second Reich

repairs for damages

kingdom


More Results

French domination is over

Germany becomes the newcontinental power

Germany becomes an industrial giantlarge iron and coal reserveseducated workersgrowing populationrailroads and canals


The Iron Chancellor

Respects GB's navalpower and doesn'twant to challenge it

fight land rats."

Failed battles against socialists andCatholics trying to demand ultimateallegiance


Wilhelm I dies

Wilhelm II asks Bismarckto resign

Massive amounts ofmoney to the military

Builds up GR's navy to beequal to GB and FR

Kaiser Wilhelm II


Manifest Destiny -The belief many citizens of the United Stateshad that the nation should spread across theentire continent.

Meanwhile...Back in the United States

was always expansionist

Louisiana purchase FRFlorida and Southwest taken SPOregon taken

Alaska purchased RUSHawaii annexed

Some even wanted to take Mexico andCanada

to add territory


Wiiliam Lloyd Garrison Frederick DouglassHarriett Beecher Stowe

An early abolitionistnewspaper owner

Helped convince Northernersof the evils of slavery

Escaped slave whospoke about the evilsof slavery


Elizabeth Cady Stanton

workplaceeducationpolitical rights

right to vote


Lincoln's election (1860) - southern states fear abolitionof slavery

South had fewer resources, people, andfactories

North had heavy advantage in population,

leave the Union


Emancipation Proclamation

"Freed" slaves in CSA

Freed slaves had almost nothingbecome farmhandsmove west as cowboys/ranchersmigrate to north for factory jobs

Jim Crow Laws - state and local laws allowing forsegregation separation based on race


The United States led the world inagricultural and industrial output

> stable government> growing population> immigration> property rights> railroads> new technology> new communications


European Expansion

Imperialism - taking over another country through militaryor cultural domination

1400s to 1600s

and FRAmerican colonies

NETH control

GB FR are competing forIndia

European powers are starting


Imperialism in the 1800s

1. Factory owners want natural resources

2. Expanded trade to new global markets

3. Merchants ships and navies need bases

4. National prestige

5. Missionaries and doctors believed theycould help the "weaker" races

6. Social Darwinism (racial superiority)

1. Strong economies

2. Powerful armies/navies

3. New technology

4. Communications advantages

5. Improved medicine


Sierra Leone

Liberia


medical advancessteamshipscommunication advances


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The Lone Exception - Ethiopia


independence


Lots and and of money

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