Pros And Cons Of The French Revolutions

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While all the revolutionaries agreed that the old governments must go, they disagreed about what to do next. France with which reform pathway they should go, Austria with not having a united front with the other rebel, and Germany with disunity between its rebel groups. These disagreements resulted in a lack of organization and unity, which made it easy for conservatives and counter revolutionary armies to crack down on the rebels and return things to normal, which in turn stopped all hopes and progress towards achieving the revolutionary’s goals; establishing a constitutional government, getting independence, and the unification of national groups (pg. 117). With this wide spread failure amongst all the revolutions, many began to doubt revolutions

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