The Kulturkampf

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What religion was Bismarck
Protestant
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What did Bismarck view with suspicion
Catholics
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What did Bismarck want to do with the new Reich
Unify and consolidate
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What did he see as a danger to the Empire's unity
The Success of the Centre party
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Bismarck was head of
The Protestant Crusade
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Who did he work closely with in the 1870s
The National Liberals
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What was the name of the Party formed by German Catholics?
The Centre Party
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How popular was it in the Reichstag
Second largest party
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Drew support from where
All Social strata
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What did the Centre Party favour
Greater self rule for the component states of the Reich
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What did the Centre Party object to
State interference in the Church's traditional sphere of influence: the education system
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Who were the 'Old Catholics'
Refused to accept decree of papal infallibility and broke with the Church
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What gave bismarck an excuse to attack
Teachers and Professors dismissed by bISHOP
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What did Bismarck maintain the government was
committed to the principle of religous toleration
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Where did Bismarck condem the Catholic Church
In a series of newspaper articles in 1872
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Who wrote the Syllaybus of errors
Pope Pius XI
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What did Pope Pius IX condem
Every major principle the liberals stood
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What 4 points did the liberals stand for
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom of the press, freedom to form political associations and hold political meetings
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What were the proportions of Protestant and Catholic in Germany
One third Catholic, two thirds Protestant
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What did the Vatican council lay down
The doctrine of papal infallibility
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What did the Vatican Council rule
That matters of faith and morals could not be questioned
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What were the Liberals worried about
That Militant Catholicism would interfere in Reich's domestic affairs and support reactionary causes
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Life and death struggle for
freedom and process against forces of reaction
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Who was the Prussian Minister of Religion and Education
Dr Falk
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What did Falk aim to do
Bring the Catholic Church under state control
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May Law 1
All candidates for priesthood to attend a secular university before commencing training
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May Law 2
Religious appointments subject to state approbal
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May Law 3
1874 obligatory civil marriage introduced
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What could happen to the Clergy if they failed to comply with the May lAWS
Could be fined, imprisoned or even expelled
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What was passed by the Prussian Landtag, other state governments and the Reichstag
Legislation
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What was brought under supervision of the state
Catholic Schools
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What were Jesuits forbidden to do
set up establishments and empowered state government to expel individual Jesuits
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When were the May Laws introduced
1873
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