What were the consequences of the 1848-49 Revolutions?

Question 1

What were the causes of the 1848-49 Revolutions?

Answer 1

• population growth(doubling in the centry up 2 1848)
• feudal system
• living and working conditions in cities
• economic crisis 1946-47
• potato blight
• industrialisation (although 97% of looms operated by hand)

Question 2

What was the united diet of prussian estates?

Answer 2

• union of Prussian lords from

- 8 provinces

Question 3

When was the United Diet of Prussian Estates dissolved

Answer 3

1847

Question 4

When was King Louis Phillipe overthrown?

Answer 4

-Feb. 1848

Question 5

What were the effects of the Revolution?

Answer 5

• establishment of Frankfurt Parliament
• Grossdeutschland vs. kleindeuthschland
• the erfurt parliament
• Punctuation/humuliation of olmutz

Question 6

What were the weaknesses of the Franfurt Parliament?

Answer 6

• no financial power (unable to collect taxes)
• no army loyal to it (only Prussia had the capacity at the time, failed to unify the armies)
• division between gd and kd- unable to resolve

Question 7

Why did the FP lose the faith of the working class?

Answer 7

• rejected the the industrial code:
  
  • regu. whs + pay
  • maintain the limitations of the old guild system
    - did this because of liberal views on the economy

Question 8

What was the impact of the FP?

Answer 8

• increased political power of the middle class:
  
  • Prussian constitution: right to assembly + association
    
    • but allowed king to alter at any time
• The fifty articles:
  
  • equality bfore the law
  • civil liberties(e.g: freedom of press, freedom of worship)

Question 9

When was the meeting in Baden held?

Answer 9

-27 February

Question 10

Describe the events of the capitulation of Olmutz?

Answer 10

• delegates meet at olmutz to discuss rebellions in hesse cassel
• Erfurt union is abolished
• confederation was established
• had to replace Radowitz (chief minister) with pro-Austrian Baron Otto von Manteuffel

Question 11

When was the punctuation of Olmutz?

Answer 11

November 1950

Question 12

When was the erfurt parlaiment established?

Answer 12

-1950

Question 13

What was Prussia’s role in the Crimean War?

Answer 13

-Remained neutral

Question 14

When did King William 1 come to power?

Answer 14

-1861