LIBERAL REVOLUTIONS

THE RESTORATION IS OVERTURNED

After the Congress of Vienna

3 waves

antiabsolutist revolutionary movements

strong nationalist component

liberal revolutions

same as in 18th-century

transition

from estate system

to class society

expansion

industrial revolution

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAVE OF 1820

revolutions

by Spanish Constitution (Cadiz, 1812)

Holy Alliance

military interventions

ablosutism was reinstated

Holy Alliance declined

division of membres

Great Britain’s criticism

absolutist troops

not penetrate Portugal

Portuguese revolutionaries

constitutional regime

1822

revolutionary outbreaks in France and Russia

1830

Ottoman Empire

Greece’s independence

absolutist power

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAVE OF 1830

Charles X

king of France

French bourgeoisie

liberal ideas

July Revolution in Paris

against the absolutist of Charles X

economic crisis

king abdicated

parliamentary monarchy

Louis Philippe of Orleans

recognised national sovereignty

abolished censorship

extended right to vote

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Belgians proclaimed independence

parliamentary monarchy

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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAVE OF 1848

Louis Philippe of Orleans’ reign

conservative

discontent : radical liberals

1845

international economic crisis

Second French Republic

workers

universal manhood suffrage

guarantee employment

bourgeoisie

fear

opposition

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

president

1851

Second French Empire

The Revolution of 1848

Austria

German Confederation

Italy

Russia

Nationalist, democratic, social demands

political breakthroughs

THE CONSOLIDATION OF LIBERAL REGIMES


democrats

defended universal manhood suffrage

‘one man, one vote’

parliamentarians

represented concerns

middle classes

upper burgueoisie

representativeness of liberal political regimes increased

outside of workers who didn't vote

sympathised revolutionary ideologies

achieve political recognition

improve working / living conditions

FRANCE


GREAT BRITAIN

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA

THE UNITED STATES

ELLIS ISLAND

Second French Empire

universal manhood suffrage

Napoleon III

plebiscites or referendums

always favourable to him

(1837–1901)

Queen Victoria

parliamentarism stable

political parties

Conservative Party

Liberal Party

reforming its laws

increase representation

1848

censitary suffrage

constitutional texts

Prussia

Austria

1867

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Extended universal manhood suffrage

west territorial expansion

submission of the indigenous population

any resistance repression

American Civil War

(1861–1865)

northern states wanted tabolish slavery

North won the war

slaves were freed

1870

racial segregation

women’s suffrage

19th century

Europeans emigrated to young countries

United States, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Canada

port of New York

European migrants

arriving in the United States

Today

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