- Most of the Northern Germany's constitution stayed the same before unification

- Three major changes:

- a German national parliament

- the Reichstag was now elected by the German people

- Germany developed a federal council

- the people of Germany now had budgetary rights, but could not overthrow government

- Bismarck succeeded in making Prussia in control of all of Germany's important decisions

- each German state had its own separate armies, all under Prussian control

- as Germany gained power, Bismarck gained power over most of Europe

- Bismarck created a foreign policy preventing Germany to enter any wars after their unification

- this secret alliance was made between Russian, Australia, and Germany

Changes after unification of Germany