The+Revolutions+of++1848

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Alex Israel Contact: dudes i lost my phone so call my house 4104892970 israel.alex3@gmail.com fasciani wats up with the doc u didnt invite me send me an invite to the email i have here Matt ferguson contact: 443 5368509(cell) maatferg.ferg63@gmail.com Dennis Fasciani contact: 4438459866(cell) wwrsd93@gmail.com my blogger is 11dfasciani@gmail.com accroding to RYAN folmer... this project will be on many different coutries such as france germany austria and possibly other...I think our bes way to sack this project and get an A is top break up the slides into countries um ok so lets get together sometime but for now lets just research - i thought matt said that

on wikipedia there are at least 10 areas that had a revolution at this time. though some are unimportant. (Brazil, Sir Lanka) we need to find which are the most important and focuse solely on those 3 or four. -Dennis

The **European Revolutions of 1848**, known in some countries as the **Spring of Nations** or the **Year of Revolution**, were a series of political upheavals throughout the [|European] continent. Described by some historians as a [|revolutionary wave], the period of unrest began on [|12 January] [|1848] in [|Sicily] and then, further propelled by the [|French Revolution of 1848], soon spread to the rest of [|Europe]. Although most of the revolutions were quickly put down, there was a significant amount of violence in many areas, with tens of thousands of people tortured and killed. While the immediate political effects of the revolutions were reversed, the long-term reverberations of the events were far-reaching.
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[|Alexis de Tocqueville] remarked in his //Recollections// of the period that "society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, and those who had anything united in common terror." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848

The revolution began in Sicily in 1848 and soon spread to France (French Revolution of 1848) and then to the rest of Europe. It was sometimes called the Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution. There were many reasons for the Revolution and they were not coherent or planned. Radical Poloticions and Liberals were reforming entire governments. There were also technological advances changing the lives of the working class. A popular press made people more aware and new ideas such as nationalism appeared. There were crop failures and economic issues in 1846 which affected the urban poor and peasants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848

Within the Austrian Empire there was increased Nationalism among the Czechs, Hungarians, Germans, and other groups. This increased nationalism in March of 1848 led to riots and the ousting of Prince Klemens von Metternich and Ferdinand I, the Hapsburg Emperor. This led to the making of a constituent assembly which freed the peasantry. However, liberals and radicals were soon squabbling and subject nations began to demand autonomy from Vienna. Finally, along with Russian troops, the Hapsburgs restored themselves and regained control.-matt..
 * The revolutions did not affect England because England had already gone beyond the goals the revolutionaries sought to achieve. They did not affect Russia because Russia had not yet developed the economic and social pressures which stimulate the liberal revolution. **
 * The revolutions of 1848 did, however, sweep across Europe from Paris in the west to cities throughout Germany and Italy, to Berlin in Prussia, and to Vienna and Prague and Budapest in the Austrian Empire.

revolution of prussia- **
 * *like france the people where begining to starve due to a recession and bread shortages.* **
 * King frederick William IV calls for a diet which really doesn't accomplish anything. **

In the 1840's the worker's living conditions got worse and they mainly worked 13-15 hour days. also there was a machine to make inexpensive textiles thus putting german cloth makers in shambles. they were revolting so that they could get a national parliment,freedom od the press,freedom of assembly,and they wanted national unity.instead a council to represent the monarchs.-( EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS INCLUDING THIS LINE IS EVENTS LEADING TO THE REVOLUTION. Problems were escalated to an extreme when a group of people were gathered outside of the kind quarters waiting to adress him(the king was King Frederick William IV) he promised Prussia would become part of Germany. Then on March 18 two shots were fired causing mass hysteria and fighting. A day later when soliders were ordered to stop 300 civilians lay dead and 24 soliders were dead.-( WHERE THIS PARAGRAPH BEGINS IS WHERE THE REVOLUTION BEGINS.. thus the Frankfurt parliment was called which was supposed to join austria and prussia...yet niether sides were willing to give up power also there was a major rift between austria and prussia having different religions...the parliment gave king fred. william IV a chance to become king thus uniting them and he turned it down saying he could not accept a crown mad of clay and mudd.( THIS IS WHY THE REVOLUTION WAS UNSUCCESSFUL)

http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/rev1848.html http://www.ohiou.edu/~chastain/ip/prussia.htm