1848

Question 1

What are the 1848 revolutions known as?

Answer 1

The Springtime of the Peoples

Question 2

What do European Liberals want?

Answer 2

• Civil Rights
• Constitutions to protect civil rights
• Free Press
• Regular Elections

Question 3

What do Big N Nationalists want?

Answer 3

Unification

Question 4

What do small n nationalists want?

Answer 4

Greater autonomy and acknowledgement of their cultures within their respective empires

Question 5

Who is the exemplar for conservatism?

Answer 5

Metternich

Question 6

Who said, “We are sleeping on a volcano”

Answer 6

Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 7

What were the 4 social grievances leading to the 1848 revolutions?

Answer 7

• Population Rise
• Poor harvests (ex. potato blight)
• Starved populations move into cities
• Economic downturn of the 1840s

Question 8

Who is the first to revolt in 1848?

Answer 8

Italy

Question 9

Who is the first within Italy to revolt?

Answer 9

Sicily

Question 10

What are the problems in Paris at the onset of 1848?

Answer 10

• Economic trouble
• Working class doesn’t have enough political representation

Question 11

Who outlaws political organizations in France?

Answer 11

Francois Guizot

Question 12

How do people get around Guizots banning of political organizations?

Answer 12

• They meet for banquets and discuss politics

Question 13

What does Guizot do to stop the political banquets?

Answer 13

Guizot outlaws banquets

Question 14

What was Guizots nickname?

Answer 14

The “Banquet man”

Question 15

Which French king does Karl Marx vilify?

Answer 15

Louis-Phillipe

(He was a good king to start, but he starts to give more rights to the bourgeoisie)

Question 16

Which king is overthrown in France in 1848?

Answer 16

Louis-Phillipe

Question 17

How does the news of the 1848 French Revolution spread so quickly across Europe?

Answer 17

• Telegraph lines

Question 18

What occurred in Vienna 1848?

Answer 18

• Students rise up
• They want Metternich (not the king)

Question 19

What happens to Metternich when he is caught by the Vienna student mob?

Answer 19

• The mob is unarmed, so Metternich lives
• But, he is sent into exile in Britain

Question 20

What was the general result of the 1848 revolutions?

Answer 20

• ## They pretty much all failed

Question 21

Who is asked to take over the united German throne?

Answer 21

Frederick IV

Question 22

Why does Frederick IV refuse to take the German throne?

Answer 22

“I’ll never accept a crown from the gutter, with the stink of revolution still on it”

Question 23

What is the new triumvirate emerging after the 1848 revolutions?

Answer 23

France: Napoleon III
Prussia: Otto Von Bismarck
Austria: Franz Joseph

Question 24

Who established Paris’ National Workshops?

Answer 24

Louis Blanc

Question 25

Why didn’t the king put Louis Blanc at the head of his own National Workshops?

Answer 25

Because the king wanted it to fail, because it would spread liberalism, so he put someone incompetent at its head.

Question 26

Explain the Paris outbreak of 1848

Answer 26

• Workers rise up because of the National Workshop failures
• The National Guard (middle class men) fired on the mobs and killed 1500 workers
• Revolt is suppressed