A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

606 Ch. 15 • Liberal Challenges To Restoration Europe The Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, 1819. without charging them with anyt ...

Crisis and Compromise in Great Britain 607 backdrop of hardship, industrial disputes, demonstrations, and the wave of food riots ...

608 Ch. 15 • Liberal Challenges To Restoration Europe “rotten boroughs,” had been covered over by the sea since the twelfth cen­ ...

Crisis and Compromise in Great Britain 609 Britain’s emerging industrial society. In the early 1840s, 1 5 percent of the members ...

610 Ch. 15 • Liberal Challenges To Restoration Europe elected. Chartists objected to the monopoly of wealth and political influe ...

Crisis and Compromise in Great Britain 61 1 imposed a sliding tariff on imported wheat (then known as “corn”). When the price of ...

612 Ch. 15 • Liberal Challenges To Restoration Europe As with the 1832 Reform Act, it took a change of heart by a Conservative g ...

CHAPTER 16 THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 I he year 1848 was the year of barricades in Europe, the “springtime of the peoples.” Few too ...

614 Ch. 16 • The Revolutions of 1848 1848, and popular pressure forced the expansion of the Belgian electoral franchise. A commo ...

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616 Ch. 16 • The Revolutions of 1848 macy and republicans demanding a regime based on popular sovereignty Republicans had begun ...

Revolutionary Mobilization 617 young grandson, the count of Paris. It was too late. The victorious crowd proclaimed the Second F ...

618 Ch. 16 • The Revolutions of 1848 clubs went into the provinces with the goal of wooing the overwhelmingly rural electorate a ...

Revolutionary Mobilization 619 women. This groundswell of demands for change frightened the upper classes. April elections broug ...

620 Ch. 16 • The Revolutions of 1848 Germans putting up barricades in the streets of Altenburg during the Revolution of 1848. ca ...

Revolutionary Mobilization 621 Rhineland. Transport workers who had been put out of work attacked rail­ roads and steamships on ...

622 Ch. 16 • The Revolutions of 1848 News from Paris encouraged liberals and radicals in the imperial Habs­ burg capital of Vien ...

Revolutionary Mobilization 623 Ferdinand then attempted to renege on his promises and ordered the universities closed and abolis ...

624 Ch. 16 • The Revolutions of 1848 Another challenge to the monarchy, again revealing the complexity of Cen­ tral Europe, came ...

Revolutionary Mobilization 625 Albert hesitated to send his army against the Habsburg forces. He felt that if the Italian penins ...