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Young Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini formed a nationalist group known as "Young Italy" in 1831. He called for an end to foreign rule and the unification of Italy based on the common language and culture of the people. The Italian nationalist movement was called Risorgimento. -
Speech to the Frankfort Assembly
Ir was a speech made by Johann Gustav Droysen. It talked about him contrasting Prussia and Austria. He talks about the German life having its positive and negative poles, like the interests which are national and reformative, in the latter, all that are dynastic and destructive. -
The Proclamation of Friedrich Wilhelm IV
In this proclamation, Wilhelm IV rejects the crown of the National Assembly in Frankfurt. Wilhelm gives two reasons why he does not want the crown. The first one being that they did not have the right, without consent of the German government to bestow the crown to him. The second one being that they also offered the crown upon condition that he would accept a constitution which couldn't be reconciled with the rights of the German states. -
Bismarck's Letter to Minister von Manteuffel
In this letter, Bismarck anticipates the development in the relationship between Austria and Germany. He said that he wants an honorable arrangement concerning the influence of each in Germany cannot be concluded and carried out. -
The Imperial Proclamation
King Wilhelm was crowned Emperor of Germany. The adequate arrangements for someone to be enabled to accept the crown had to have the German princes and the free cities. The restoration of the German Empire and the German imperial office. The two duties King Wilhelm accepted in his proclamation was that he needed to answer the summons of the united German princes and cities and to accept the German imperial title.
