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‘The aim of the Zollverein is to bind the Germans economically into a nation. It will strengthen the nation materially as much by protecting its internal productivity. It ought to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and provincial interests. The German people have realised that a free economic system is the only means to engender national feeling'.
The basic objective of Zollverein was

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Political freedom

Economic freedom

Social freedom

Unification of Italy

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The basic objective of Zollverein was Economic freedom.
Commercial classes saw the lack of standard weights or measures as constraints and impediments to economic exchange and growth. They advocated for establishing a united economic region that allowed the free movement of commodities, people, and capital. On the initiative of Prussia, most of the German states joined a customs union, or Zollverein, established in 1834. The union eliminated tariff barriers and decreased theirs from being over thirty different currencies to just two. Railway construction boosted mobility and used economic motivations to advance racial unification. A wave of economic nationalism fueled the broader nationalist sentiments rising during the period.

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