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Prussian King William I
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Indemnity Bill
The law that taxes would never be collected illegally again was written in the Indemnity Bill. This law resolved the problem of funding the military. -
Austro- Prussian War
Prussia won the war and insisted that Austrians withdrew from German political affairs.
Prussia created a new Confederation of Northern German States. -
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Franco- Prussian War
The government joind the Prussians as Germans to go agaisnt France, their traditional enemy.
They managed to capture Napoleon III and had him abdicate. -
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Chancellor of Germany
Bismark became the powerful chancellor of Germany.