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Also know as Bastille Day, the people of France stormed the Palace of Versile to try and take all their gunpowder.
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In order to set the slaves free, Toussaint agreed to help out the French army in fighting against the British and Spanish. Toussaint proved that he could do the job by winning seven battles in seven days, so Napoleon agreed to make an agreement with letting the slaves be free.
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Napoleon was named the Emperor of France on March 18, 1801 because of his many great successes that boosted the French nationalism.
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Tourissant L'Oventure lead the revolt against the French, to bring Haiti to a victory, while the French was busy fighting in another battle.
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To inspire the revolution, Hidalgo wrote something called "Cry of Dolores" which was to encourage the Mexicans that they could rise up to power and possibly put an end to the Spanish tyranny.
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To liberate Chile, Martin needed to create an army so he created an army of about 5,000 men and called them The Army of the Andes.
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Argentina became independent after the Argentine War where Manuel, Belgrano, Juan Jose Castelli and Jose de San Martin fought agains the royalists.
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At a national assembly Venezuela was declared independent, but that only lasted for about a year until the Spanish forces took over again.
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Colombia was the first to be liberated out of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. There independence only lasted for a short time span because Spain came back and took power.
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Bolivar meet up with Martin, Martin understood that Bolivar had already combined the military, political, and psychological needs to be able to beat the Spaish armys.
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Miguel Hidalgo called for a war to be against the Spaniards. Mexico ended up winning the wat in 1821, but before the war was over and before Mexico gained their independence the Spanish army had killed Hidalgo.
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Ecuador was the fourth country to be liberated by Bolivar.
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Bolivar was able to already liberate Colombia, Peru, Central America, and Mexic, as well as making an alliance with many American places
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"Young Italy" was formed because nationalism made sense to Mazzini because of geography, common language, shared traditions, ending trade barriers, and encouraging to build railroads.
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During the Zollverein tariff barriers were broken between German-speaking states. People were offered the throne to Fredrick William IV, but he rejects it because the position was offered by the people.
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The war was mainly fought between the Russians and the British, French and the Turkish. This war was fought because in the Middle East Russia demanded to have more protection over the Orthodox.
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Garbaldi leads 1000 man militia into Sicily, defeats Sicily and Naples, and turns the land over to Sardinia, once he unifies everyone, he gave the throne over to Victor Emmanuel II.
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After Garibaldi and the Red Shirts unified all of Italy, Garibaldi handed the throne over to Victor Emmanuel II.
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Cavour was appointed a Prime Minister by Victor Emmanuel, Cavour was able to improve agriculture, build railroads, and encourage commerce by supporting free trade,
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Bismark was named the Prime Minister because he formed alliances with Austria, he pursued several foreign policy goals, built strong links between Austria and Russia, and he was initally able to keep his distance away from England
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This speech was given by Bismark, the speech was supposed to motivate people and give them the courage that they don't have to fight because the reigm doesn't want to.
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Denmark went to war with Austria and Prussia because Denmark refused to write a constitution. Denmark ended up loosing the battle and Austria and Prussia shared Denmark.
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Austro-Prussian War also known as the Seven Weeks War, the war began when Prussia challenged Austria for the leadership of the German Confederation. The fight was also over Denmark because Austria and Prussia jointly ran it.
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France declared war on Austria shortly after the French Revolution. Other European countries saw this war as a threat to their monarchies so the stayed out of the wat and let the French try and restore there own monarchy.
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The 2nd Reich was when Germany became unified under one person and when Kaiser Wilhelm II was abdicated from the throne.