Britain after 1832
Whigs and Industrialists formed the Liberal Party
Tories and Radicals formed the Conservative Party
Factory Act of 1833 - forbade labor of children under 9 in textile mills
Ten Hours Act - women and children have a 10-hour limit
Corn Laws repealed of 1846 - (Whigs were anti-Corn Laws)
Industry is a governing element
Free trade established
Britain became dependent on imports
Socialism - Socialism spread among the working class after 1830. In France, Robespierre and Babeuf were considered heroes. Socialistic ideas blended with a movement (chartist) for further parliamentary reforms. Some socialists at this time were…
Henri de Saint-Simon
Charles Fourier
Robert Owen
Chartist Movement – was led by working class. Only a few chartists were socialist, but all were anti-capitalist.
Proposals:
Annual elections to the House of Commons (by)
Universal suffrage for all adult males (through)
A secret ballot (and)
Equal electoral districts.
Abolition of property qualifications for membership to House of Commons (and urged instead)
Payment of salaries to all elected Parliament members, in order that poor people could have say.
The Chartists were rejected, and went on to form labor unions.
Reform Act of 1867, universal male suffrage was granted
Revolutions of 1848 France
King Louis Philip. - also called the Bourgeoisie Monarchy or the Orleanist Monarchy.
During this period, republicanism, which was becoming more socialist.
Guizot - Prime Minister of France. Opposed all change, believed in conservatism.
Demands of the radicals - to have universal suffrage and to create a republic
Demands of the liberals - more voting rights to middle class, but wished to keep a constitutional monarchy
Both parties viewed Louis Philip and the July Monarchy as bad
February Revolution
Reformers planned “banquets” as a way of gathering. On February 22, 1848, a banquet was held and soldiers opened fire. In turn, the revolutionaries caused a street riot in Paris
Louis Philip abdicated, flees to Great Britain
On February 18, 1848, a provisional government was created under 10 men: 7 political republicans, 3 social republicans
Lamartine - Political republican, who believed in a moderate republic and political democracy, had little sympathy for the poor
Louis Blanc - Social republican and thinker who created the National Workshop
National Workshop - provided job training and welfare for the lower class consisted of the Labor Commission, a program that found ways to put people to work
Constituent (National) Assembly - voted to power by universal male suffrage. Dominated by moderate republicans and conservatives. The 5 executives of this new government were anti-socialist and Louis Blanc’s outspoken enemies.
Moderate Republicans and Conservatives dominated the National Assembly
Legitimists - people who were in favor of the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty
Orleanists - people who were in favor of the restoration of the July Monarchy
June Days of 1848
A class war between the middle class and the working class erupted
National Assembly vs. National Workshop
On May 15, the National Workshop dissolved the government
General Cavaignac “The Butcher” - head of the French army who killed members during the Bloody June Days (24-26) of the National Workshop and gave the National Assembly back its power.
The June Days brought fear of the lower working-class uprising all over Europe
Germany 1848
Started in Berlin
Frederick William IV - Prussian Kaiser who recognized nationality
The Frankfurt Assembly - German people’s first attempt to unify
Made of the middle class
Had basically no power
Their main goal was to unify Germany
Their biggest question was “What is Germany?”
Grand Germany - a Germany, which includes all German-speaking states
Lesser Germany - a Germany with only Prussia, Hanover, and all HRE states
They offered Frederick William IV the crown of a Constitutional Federal Union without Austria, but he rejected it because his equals, the German princes, did not offer it
“I cannot pick up a crown from the gutter”
Forty-eighter – émigrés from Germany
Other Revolutions in Europe
The Habsburg Empire contained 3 geographical areas with over a dozen language groups
Metternich discouraged nationalistic manifestations
Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes - war of all against all
The March Days started when Lajos Kossuth of Hungary demanded independence
Metternich fled to Great Britain
Emperor Ferdinand I gave Hungary autocracy as long as they were loyal
March Laws - the Hungarian government was separate within the empire
Ferdinand abdicated and Francis Joseph became new monarch
Revolution in Italy
Milan and Venice, provinces controlled by Austria, revolted in favor of a united Italy
King of Sardinia, Charles Albert, the one true Italian dynasty, declared war on Austria
Garibaldi - Southern Italian revolutionary
Mazzini - made Pope Pius IV give up Papal States
Pope fled to France, where Louis Napoleons decreed the Falloux Laws
Ethnic division was caused by disunity among peasants, industrial workers, and the middle class
Turning of the Tide - counter-revolutions sent by Austria to reclaim Italian provinces
19th Century European History
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