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Title: Revolutions of 1848


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Revolutions of 1848
  • Global History II Spiconardi

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Nationalism
  • How do you identify yourself?
  • American? Or by your ethnicity? Or another means?
  • What unites people and brings them together?
  • Nationalism ?a feeling of pride in ones own
    country cultural identity based on a peoples
    common language, religion, customs

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FranceAnother French Revolution
  • The Problems
  • High unemployment
  • Middle class desire for suffrage
  • King Louis-Philippe refused to make changes

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  • Revolution of 1848
  • Monarchy overthrown again
  • Another provisional (temporary) government is set
    up by moderates
  • New Government
  • The Constituent Assembly
  • Granted universal male suffrage
  • Organized workshops so unemployed could find
    work
  • Causes government treasury to empty
  • Revolution
  • Workers take to the streets and are put down by
    government forces
  • Many sent to prisons in the French colony of
    Algeria

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FranceAnother French Revolution
  • The Second Republic
  • After the failed revolution a new government was
    set up
  • Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is elected
    President of France
  • Like his uncle, he asks for a plebiscite to make
    himself emperor

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The Austrian Empire
  • The Austrian Empire consisted of people from many
    backgrounds
  • Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians,
    Slovenes, Poles, Croats, Serbians, Italians.
  • Many of the groups wanted their own state
  • Italians, Czechs, Hungary (Granted independence)
  • NATIONALISM DIVIDES IN THE BALKANS
  • (It does not unite)
  • Wait till WWI for further details
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