European History paper 1

Question	Answer
what were the Carlsbad decrees	a set of reactionary restrictions introduced in the states of the German confederation in 1819
what did it accomplish?	It banned nationalist fraternities Removed liberal university professors By 1820 it had brought an end to all German reform movements
Liberals in Prussia wanted...	representation and constitutional rights
stage one of German revolution	In the German states, the hungry 1840s drove the lower classes, which had long been suffering from the economic effects of industrial and agricultural rationalization, to the point of open rebellion.
stage two	the signal for a concerted uprising did not come until early in 1848 with the exciting news that the regime of the bourgeois king Louis-Philippe had been overthrown by an insurrection in Paris (February 22–24).
stage 3	The result was a series of sympathetic revolutions against the governments of the German Confederation, most of them mild but a few, as in the case of the fighting in Berlin, bitter and bloody.
stage 4	princes hastened to make peace with the opposition in order to forestall republican and socialist experiments like those in France.
stage 5	and so, Prominent liberals were appointed to the state ministries, and civic reforms were introduced to safeguard the rights of the citizens and the powers of the legislature.
stage 6	But even more important was the attempt to achieve political unification through a national assembly representing all of Germany.
stage 7	Within the space of a few weeks, those who had fought against the particularistic system of the restoration for so long empowered to rebuild social and political structures of Germany
stage 8	Once the spring uprising was over, the parties and classes that had participated in it began to quarrel about the nature of the new order that was to take the place of the old.
stage 9	There were, first of all, sharp differences between the liberals and the democrats. There were also bitter disputes over the form that national unification should assume. (great Germany, little Germany)
stage 10	There was also conflict between poor and marginalized social groups, many of whom wanted protection against mechanized production and rural impoverishment and the business interests who sought to use their new political influence to promote economic growth and freedom of enterprise. .
stage 11	Popular support for the revolution began to dwindle with the realization that the liberals would do no more to solve the problems of the masses than the conservatives had done.
stage 12	The forces of the right, recovering from the demoralization of their initial defeat, began to regain confidence in their own power and legitimacy.
stage 13	King Freidrich Wilhelm IV, early in December dissolved the constituent assembly that had been meeting in Berlin,
stage 14	when the national assembly in 1849 handed the crown to KF IV he refused it. the terms were; he would be the ruling monarch however his power would be limited by an elected parliament.
stage 15	This rejection of political consolidation under a liberal constitution destroyed the last chance of the revolutionary movement for success.
the end (T _T)	By the summer of 1849 the revolution, which had begun a year earlier amid such extravagant expectations, was completely crushed.

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