Chapter 10 #2 Flashcards
causes for 1848 revolutions
- conservative leaders refused to respond
- working class radicals and middle class liberals were convinced that repressive Metternich system had outlived its usefulness
- nationalists in Italy and Germany wanted unification
- Austrians wanted independence
- crop failures, rising prices of food, growing unemployment
french 1848 revolution
- Louis Philippe rejected demands for extending franchise to working class (“enrich yourself and you will have the vote”)
- his government collapsed
- liberals, socialists, and bonapartists vied for power/ middle class liberals and workers had conflict
- resulted in Bloody June Days
- a second republic was then created with universal male suffrage and a president
- napoleon Bonaparte was elected president
second republic
created after Louis Philippe’s government collapsed
- liberals, socialists, and bonapartists vied for power
- louis napeolon became president then emperor
Austrian 1848 revolution
revolts were kept down by Franz Joseph
- nationalism in Hungary was repressed by Russian troops in Vienna
- revolts in Italy were also put down (Mazzini)
Franz joseph
- emperor during Austrian 1848 revolution
- after 1848 revolution, had dual monarchy
- had minority problems
Prussian 1848 revolution
- Frederick William IV was forced to make concessions
- he abolished censorship, and a new Constitution that was aimed toward uniting Germany
chartists
wanted universal manhood suffrage, secret ballots, no land requirements
Frederick William IV
- was forced to make concessions
- he abolished censorship, and a new Constitution that was aimed toward uniting Germany
- the Frankfurt Parliament offered him the to be king of Prussia, but declined because he would be limited by a liberal constitution and have to accept the throne from middle class liberals
German 1848 revolution
- Frankfurt parliament
- they split into 2 (Grossdeutsch and Kleindetuch)
- offered Frederick William IV to be king of Prussia
Grossdeutsch
- during 1848 German revolution
- wanted to include Austro-Hungarian empire
Kleindetuch
- during 1848 German revolution
- excluded Austrians
Italian 1848 revolution
- Mazzini
- Young Italy
- repressed by Austrian intervention (Franz Joseph )
Crimean War
- Russia versus great Britain, France, and ottoman empire
- Florence Nightingale
- in the end, Alexander II of Russia negotiated peace and instituted reform
- Austria stayed neutral (Russia got mad because of that)
- Sardinia fought to have napoleon III be on his side
causes of Crimean war
- conflict over jurisdiction within holy places
- Nicholas wanted to dominate turkey and secure entrance into Mediterranean through Turkish straits (show that France is strong)
- France and Britain didn’t want a change in balance of power
Unification of Italy
- Cavour modernized and expanded the army
- Cavour wanted to ally with napoleon III, but he ditched them
- Cavour got lombardy with Austria
- Garibaldi and Rome incident
- gained Venetian from Austria during Austro-Prussian War
- after everything, Italy still had the problem of north being industrialized and south being poor
- irredenta was still not incorporated into Italy
- they had a debt afterward
Garibaldi
invaded Sicily and Naples
-marched towards Rome
mazzini
attempted to unite Italy during 1848
young Italy