Read Sherman chapter 12
Answer the following questions based on the "Revolutions of 1848 PowerPoint" (on my BMHS site-link on right part of page)
1. What were the main causes of the revolutions of 1848? In what parts of Europe did revolution quickly spread?
2. What was the usual pattern followed by these revolutions?
3. Why was it said that "when France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold?" [refer to the events in Hungary, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and Italy in 1848].
4. What social/political divisions were exposed by the revolutions of 1848 in France, Austria, and Prussia?
5. Why did Louis Blanc become popular in Paris during the June uprisings there?
6. How was the Frankfurt Assembly a more national political body than a democratic one?
7. Why did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte win the election for President of the Second French Republic at the end of 1848?
8. How was the Frankfurt Constitution a reflection of the egalitarian values of the mid-19c? What ultimately happened to it?
9. Why can it be said that "1848 was the turning-point at which modern history didn't turn?"
10. Why were the 1848 revolutions unsuccessful?
11. Even though they were an immediate failure, what were some of the long-term effects of the Revolutions of 1848? What political gains were sustained?
