WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 23 LESSON 2

WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 23 LESSON 2

Nationalism and Political Revolutions

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

How does revolution bring about political and economic change?

Multiple Choice

What caused many countries of Europe to desire change in the 1830s and 1840s?

• provisional government

• universal male suffrage

• conservatism

• liberalism and nationalism

Multiple Choice

France's revolution in 1848 finally ratified a new constitution, which set up a government called the

• Second Republic.

• Congress of Vienna.

• Confederation.

• provisional government

Open Ended

Analyzing PRIMARY SOURCE

Giuseppe Mazzini on Young Italy

“Young Italy is a brotherhood of Italians who believe in a law of Progress and Duty, and are convinced that Italy is destined to become one nation. . . Young Italy is Unitarian. Because, without unity, there is no true nation. Because without unity, there is no real strength; and Italy, surrounded as she is by powerful, united, and jealous nations, has need of strength before all things. . . .”

—Giuseppe Mazzini, from General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, 1832

DBQ MAKING INFERENCES Why would Italy’s history have convinced Mazzini of the need for national unity?

Multiple Choice

The Austrian Empire was considered multinational because

• many countries attacked it.

• the population was enormous.

• it was a German-speaking dynasty.

• it was made up of culturally different peoples.

Open Ended

How does revolution bring about political and economic change?