Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0929 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Frankfurt: Eight Hundred Delegates and the Smaller-German Answer
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The idea
The March Revolution in the German states produced the Frankfurt Assembly, the witness's name, Germany's first elected national assembly, eight hundred delegates by the anchor's count, debating free enterprise against the right to work and a smaller Germany without Austria against a greater one.
In practice
Smaller Germany won; its constitution offered Prussia's king the crown.
Where people slip
The anchor's Frankfurt Congress is the witness's Assembly.
Your place on the trail
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