Zollverein:
- Encouraged free trade among German states and maintained high tariffs against non-members.
- Benefited German workers and manufacturers
- State of Prussia leads an economic union called the Zollverein
- Free trade between German states
Seven Weeks War:
- Prussia vs. Austria
- Prussia wins the war
- Ended change of Austria being in control of Germany
- North German Confederation (1867)
Franco-Prussian War:
- All German states joined in a war against France
- Overwhelming German victory
-Prussia humiliates France
- Germany becomes a nation (1871)
-Ten days earlier, the German states had proclaimed their union under the Prussian King, uniting Germany as a nation-state, the German Empire.
