The Austrian Empire
- The result was the Compromise of 1867, which created the dual monarchy of Austria- Hungary.
- A common army, foreign policy, and system of finances
Russia
-Czar Alexander II decided to make some reforms, and peasants could now own property
- Alexander II turned against reform and returned to the old methods of repression
< Nationalism in the United States>
-The South was determined to maintain the cotton-economy and plantation-based slavery. Abolitionism, a movement to end slavery, arose in the North and challenged the Southern way of life.
- When Lincoln was elected president war became certain.