The group I was paired with had the French Revolution of 1848. Our job was to analyze a source on our Revolution and to create a Survey Monkey quiz for the other groups to take. The people that were rebelling were the lower class citizens whom believed in the ideology Liberalism. They rebelled against the upper and middle class citizens. Quoted from the source of the revolution on edline, "Near the end of the decade, discontent was heightened by a recession, or period of reduced economic activity." These rebels wanted to end the French Recession because obviously it wasn't a glorious time if no one was able to buy anything due to the lack of available jobs which provided pay for everyone. After fighting and creating the Barricade Saint Antoine, the National Assembly elected a new leader to rule, Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte. Another reference to the source stated, " From the start, deep differences divided the new government. Middle-class liberals wanted moderate political reforms. Socialists wanted far reaching social and economic change..." These are just a few of the issues that divided the new government so clearly this revolution was not entirely successful.
This screenshot from the survey my group created shows that the class learned from our quiz because the green bar was the correct answer and the majority of the class selected it.
However, this screenshot is an example of the class being confused with the setup of the question on the survey because the answers all vary greatly.
Based on this activity in creating the survey for the revolution of 1848 and taking the surveys of the other groups' revolutions, the revolutions were neither an ultimate failure nor a success. The answer that is more leaned towards is that the revolutions did not succeed and therefore they were failures. These are examples of why the revolutions did not succeed. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 was the revolution that failed the most compared to the others. Stated from the source on this revolution, "The Tsar died on 19 November 1825, and it was weeks later that Nicholas discovered he was to be the next tsar and that Constantine did not want the throne." This shows that the Tsar that the people wanted was Constantine, not Nicholas. But Constantine refuses to take the throne leaving Nicholas to do it himself. The Decembrist revolt did not end in favor of what the people wanted because they didn't get the Tsar they had hoped for. Next, the revolt in 1848 Hungary did not end too greatly either, Outbreaks of violence occurred in the streets of Vienna in the Austrian empire. The Nationalists which were rebelling wanted to end serfdom and to have a Constitution written for them. In the end, they did have a Constitution written for them so this revolution was partially a success. Lastly, the Revolution of 1830 France was a partial success because the people did not want Charles X to rule any longer so he left the country and Louis Philippe took over from there. In conclusion, there is no definite yes or no answer as to whether or not the revolutions were a success or failure but the answer that could be more leaned to was a failure since not everything the rebels wanted was accomplished in the end.
