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- - - - establishment of state bank in 1876 this being known as the Reichsbank
      - no more tariffs on international trades between the lander
      - single system of weights and measures
      - a national penal code
      - a single courst system in 1876 led by the central supreme court
      - expansion of the railway network around the entire country
    - - catholics represented 37% of the population
      - the catholic church would be financially independent and have its own schools
      - Bismarck thought the Zentrum would make it harder to unify the state
      - hoped an attack on the catholic church would lead to support from protestants in the reichstag
      - catholic education would go under government supervision
      - only those who studied in Germany could become priests
      - current priests had to show there loyalty to the state
      - state financial aid to the catholics was ended
      - catholics would be deprived on some legal rights
      - end of the kulturekampf
        
        wanted to end it because he wanted a better relationship with catholic austria
        
        after industries and agricultural depression Bismarck wanted to end free trade and knew he would lose the support fro the liberals so knew he needed the support from the centre party
        
        Protestants were no longer in support of the kulturekampf due to the fact it was making a bad stigma towards religion in general
        
        Bismarck believed that the Left of the country posed a bigger threat towards unity than the catholics
  - - - protestant middle class of Germany
      - favoured free trade
      - grew more conservative due to feeling threatened over the SPD
      - formed 1867
    - - represented the germany catholics
      - strong in southern states
      - wanted to preserve position of catholic church in germany
      - conservative regarding the constitution
      - founded in 1870
    - - founded 1875
      - represented working class and trade unions
      - supported redution of power for the elites
      - extreme members wanted a complete over throwing of the current system
    - - founded in 1876
      - represented protestant and aristocratic prussians.
      - most right wing political groups
      - detested the reichstag
      - massive in Prussia
- - - - ended anti socialist laws
      - more influence over policy making for minister
      - a reduction in tariffs
      - social reforms
    - - was ignored
      - subversion bill
      - anti union bill
    - - removed anti socialist rules
      - national debt would doulbe
    - - last chancellor
      - Reichstag majority SPD
      - less power
- - - - was a hereditary monarch
      - appointed and dismissed chancellors
      - could call and dissoble the reichstag
      - controleled the army
      - controlled foreign policy
      - gave asent to new laws
      - devised polices and laws in consultation with is chosen chancellor, ministers and bunderat
      - have the final say over any dispute over constitution
    - - was appointed and dismissed by the kaiser
      - decodedoutlines of policeis with the Kaiser
      - chancellor would give assent to all new laws
    - - mevers elected by males over 25
      - deputies had the right of free speech
      - election held every three years by an indirect voting system which varied in different regions
      - gave consent to all laws
      - cold question, deate, agree to or reject a law proposed by the chancellor
      - coud not amend a law
      - could not demand the dismissal of the chancellor or any other ministers
    - - 58 representatives from the 25 state governments in proportion to size of the state
      - presided over by the chancellor
      - could initiate legislation
      - decisions decided by the majority vote except for any proposal to alter the constition, which needed a majority of 14
      - had to approve new laws
      - could veto all legislation except a budget approved by the reichstag
      - had to give approval to the kaiser for a declartion of war