Q2. What was the Zollverein? What were its wider
implications?
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The aim of zollverein was to bind the Germans economically into a nation. The Union abolished the tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to only two. It helped to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and provincial interests
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*In 1834, a customs union or zollverein was formed at the initiative of Prussia. It was joined by most of the German States.
* The aim of zollverein was to bind the Germans economically into a nation. The Union abolished the tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to only two.
It helped to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and provincial interests. The German people realised that a free economic system was the only means to engender national feeling.