Nationalism means that a country is controlled by its own government and not by a king. People vote for their own rights and their own ruler. The way that U.S. citizens are nationalistic is that the currency they use are U.S. dollars, they recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem, the language they speak is English, they celebrate holidays like Independence Day (July 4th) and they also vote for their rights of how the country should be controlled. Nationalism started existing during the 1800's and started changing the way people live. Nationalsim started destroying empires and they started to become nation states. In 1858, the Kindgdom of Sardinia was the largest state known in the area. Camillo di Cavour helped unite Italy by driving out the Austrians with the support of Napolean III. Through 1870, Italy is known as how it is today as a nation state. The province of Venitia was taken over and drove out the Austrians.
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