Western Civ Ii Notes
Western civ 2 notes
1848 * Known as the hungry 40’s * Industrialization sweeps over Europe * Railroad transforms the world and makes the world “smaller” because news got around quicker * France – 1830-1848 – “july monarchy” Louis Philippe is a bourgeois monarch. The bourgeoisie benefitted from him because of Liberalism * French workers started to get pushed into the streets because of food shortages and rising prices * In fear of violence, the royal family flees and goes to England * After the July Monarchy collapses, France becomes a republic, 2nd French Republic * In 1848 France gives universal manhood suffrage, French citizens had right to vote * Louis Napoleon Bonaparte: nephew of Napoleon, he comes to France and promises to restore stability and make France great again, becomes president of the 2nd French Republic * 1851-1852 – 2nd French republic is abolished, and France becomes 2nd French Empire * Louis Napoleon becomes Napoleon III * During the 18th century the capital of Prussia was Berlin, it was becoming a military power and was becoming very powerful * Prussia was built upon two foundations: the army, and service nobility * The name of the Prussian nobility is Junker (yunkers) * Hohenzollern, dynasty of Prussia * After 1815, Prussia acquired German further lands along the Rhineland * The middle classes start wanting Liberalism, they want free trade, and constitution and a parliament, Prussia had none of these * The Prussian King Frederick William IV still believed he was serving God not the people * The vast majority of people were peasants, “Mob”, they were starting to get violent * King Frederick William IV fled to Vienna to get away from the violence * Habsberg, dynasty of Austria * Francis Joseph is the King of Austria * The middle class wants a constitution and parliament. Joseph gives it to them, he ends serfdom * People revolt in Austria, but the
1848 * Known as the hungry 40’s * Industrialization sweeps over Europe * Railroad transforms the world and makes the world “smaller” because news got around quicker * France – 1830-1848 – “july monarchy” Louis Philippe is a bourgeois monarch. The bourgeoisie benefitted from him because of Liberalism * French workers started to get pushed into the streets because of food shortages and rising prices * In fear of violence, the royal family flees and goes to England * After the July Monarchy collapses, France becomes a republic, 2nd French Republic * In 1848 France gives universal manhood suffrage, French citizens had right to vote * Louis Napoleon Bonaparte: nephew of Napoleon, he comes to France and promises to restore stability and make France great again, becomes president of the 2nd French Republic * 1851-1852 – 2nd French republic is abolished, and France becomes 2nd French Empire * Louis Napoleon becomes Napoleon III * During the 18th century the capital of Prussia was Berlin, it was becoming a military power and was becoming very powerful * Prussia was built upon two foundations: the army, and service nobility * The name of the Prussian nobility is Junker (yunkers) * Hohenzollern, dynasty of Prussia * After 1815, Prussia acquired German further lands along the Rhineland * The middle classes start wanting Liberalism, they want free trade, and constitution and a parliament, Prussia had none of these * The Prussian King Frederick William IV still believed he was serving God not the people * The vast majority of people were peasants, “Mob”, they were starting to get violent * King Frederick William IV fled to Vienna to get away from the violence * Habsberg, dynasty of Austria * Francis Joseph is the King of Austria * The middle class wants a constitution and parliament. Joseph gives it to them, he ends serfdom * People revolt in Austria, but the