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What were the causes of the revolution in Vienna?
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-too many peoples/nationalities/ethnicities
-Austria covered too much land -nationalist ideas -some radicals and liberals in Vienna -Metternich was inflexible -news of the French June Days |
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Who was Louis Kossuth? (Vienna)
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the leader of the radical Hungarian diet and the Magyars
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What were the March Laws? (Vienna)
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they enacted an all-German assembly led by Kossuth to give Hungary a constitution and independance within the Empire
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Where was Charles Albert from? What did he do? (Vienna)
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King of Sardinia, tried to take Lombardy-Venetia
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What was the general upshot of the revolution? (Vienna)
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Austria was falling apart and Germans were trying to unify...but...
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Why is the counter revolution able to happen? (Vienna)
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the revolutionaries can't sustain their rebellion
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Who are the three Austrian generals of the counter revolution and where were the acting? (Vienna)
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Widischgratz: Prague then later Vienna
Radetsky: Lombardy-Venetia Jellachich: Hungary (starts civil war and helps suppress Magyars) |
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What does Kossuth try to do and why doesn't it work? (Vienna)
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He's trying to Magyarize Hungary but only about 1/2 the people speak Magyar
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How were the Russians involved? (Vienna)
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Kossuth tries to lead the Magyars to an ablsolutely independant Hungary they fight hard but Francis Joseph calls in Tsar Nicholas to help
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Who is the king of Austria? (Vienna)
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Francis Joseph
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Who is the tsar? (Vienna)
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Nicholas
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Why do the Russians her Francis Joseph? (Vienna)
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they want to help the Russian Slavs who have been oppressed under the Magyars and they would like power in the region
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What was Austria like after the revolution? (Vienna)
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-selfexpression, nationalism, constitutionalism discouraged
-rigidly centralized government -free trading in empire -administrative efficiency instead of individual freedoms -lots of military use |
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What were the causes of the German revolution?
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-nationalist ideas of Herder, Fichte and Ranke
-increased peopulation = decreased conditions -political censorship: people want freedom of press -Paris June Days |
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What was the Frankfut Assembly?
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a constituent assembly meeting in St Paul's Cathedral
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What did the Frankfurt Assembly wnat to do?
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create a United Germany like the United States with central government, balance of power, individual states
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What nationalist document was written that reminds one of an earlier Enlightened work?
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The Declaration of the Rights of Germans (emphasized individual rights)
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What was the biggest problem with the Frankfurt Assembly?
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it had no power to do anything
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What does the Frankfut Assembly do to solve it's problem?
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offers their crown to Austria and then to Friedrick William who both decline
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What were the outcomes of the German revolution?
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-liberal nationalism in Frankfurt replaced by more aggressive nationalism
-48ers move to US |
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Who were the two kinds of people behind the February Revolution?
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-liberals (b/c underrepresentation)
-radicals (b/c universal sufferage) -they must work together |
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Describe the provisional government.
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10 republicans =
7 political (La Martine) 3 social (Louis Blanc) it controled things until the election of the constituent assembly |
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What did the constiuent assembly do?
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write a constitution
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What did the provisional government do?
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they came up with the National Workshops in which the unemployed were put to work building infrastructure etc
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What was the problem with the National Workshops?
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it brought tons of unemployed men to Paris --> more radical thought, kind of new class of sans-culottes
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What happened to the constiuent assembly?
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the more conservative people in the country elected members who the more liberal people in the city didn't like so they stormed the assembly
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Who restored and protected the constiuent assembly?
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General Cavaignac
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What were the June Days
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-people rebel against the constituent assembly
-army puts down insurrections but kills ~10,000 in Paris -Constituent assembly writes new constitution with powerful president |
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Who becomes the president?
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
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