Question

The idea of national unity gained popularity in Europe initially among ______.

• A. the liberal middle class
• B. the aristocracy
• C. the peasants
• D. industrial workers

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

the liberal middle class

Ideas of national unity in early-nineteenth-century Europe were closely allied to the ideology of liberalism. For the new middle classes liberalism stood for freedom for the individual and equality of all before the law.