The Unification of Germany, Italy , and the United States
The national unification of Italy, Germany and the United States had many similarities and differences. When Germany and Italy experienced unification, the United States was already unified but going through a process of conserving the union of its states. While both the United States and Germany contained one main influential leader during their time of unification, Italy experienced two main leaders that were an essential part if its unification. Cavour was an important leader because he unified northern Italy. Another leader was Garibaldi who is responsible for uniting the southern and northern parts of Italy. For Germany, after the failure of the German revolutionaries of 1848, the German confederation was a loose union of thirty-nine states. In 1862, Bismarck was declared minister-president of Prussia. Bismarck had a strong personality and great desire for power. In his conquest to unify Germany, Bismarck fought against Austria as the Prussian ambassador to the German confederation from 1857-1859. His goal was to build up Prussia's strength and consolidate Prussia''s great power status. To do that, he decided to ally with the forces of German nationalism to defeat and expel Austria from German affairs. To bring the provinc
According to Guiseppe Garibaldi, the job of unification was only half way done. In the early 1860''s Garibaldi devised a plan to use an army of patriotic volunteers to conquer the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1860, Garibaldi''s army of a thousand ""Red Shirts"" landed on the shores of Sicily. They won battles, gained volunteers, and took Palermo. Cavour immediately sent forces to occupy most of the Papal States in order to intercept Garibaldi. The New Kingdom of Italy expanded to include Venice in 1866 and Rome in 1870. Italy, which was fully unified by 1876, was united on paper, but profound divisions remained. In Charleston, Southern Carolina, the war began with the southern troops fired on a union fort Harbor. The civil war lasted from 1861 until 1865. In the end, the south was defeated and the union was preserved. The industry and transportation of the north placed the south at a great disadvantage. Slavery weakened the south''s war effort. Blacks were mostly used in the plantation rather than in combat. They did this because they feared that they would run away. Nevertheless, many of the blacks escaped to the union armies. The result of the war and reunification of the states affected the lives of southern blacks because it moved them much closer to the lives of northern blacks. This put the southern blacks closer to equality. The United States experienced the power of nationalism in a different way. Rather than unite, the nationalism worked to divide the nation. The United States was divided by slavery ever since the beginning and its early growth continued this separation. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 opened area for settlement and started regional tensio
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