Differences Between Liberals And Radicals

Madison Funk

9/22/17

Section 2

6. Liberals and radicals might join together in a nationalist cause for one reason, they both want change. Joining together would help prevent invasion and protect there country. Liberals are known as middle class and they led the struggle for constitutional government. Liberals also wanted a nation-state. A nation-state is when a nation has its own independent government. The only so called nation-states in 1815 were England, Spain, and France. Both groups would agree on the same thing but maybe in different ways. Radicals are people who wanted to extend democracy. Liberals wanted there nation to become a nation-state for loyalty and not just for their ruler. They might come together because they both didn't

Alexander III reforms had many consequences on Russia. The only reason his reforms did not work was because he had lost control of the government. Alexander's first reform was a decree of freeing the serfs in 1861, however, it only went halfway. Pheasant communities received about half the farm land in the country and nobles kept the other half. Pheasants are farmers and nobles are people where the government pays for there land. This reform made it some the serfs were legally free, but the debt still tied them to the land. Pheasants had 49 years to pay the government for their land. Political and social reforms stopped when terrorists assassinated Alexander II in 1881. His reforms led to terrorism and eventually killed him. His successor, Alexander III, made czarist control more strict over the country. He encouraged industrialization to expand Russia's power. Nationalism was a major force behind the drive for industrial expansion. Alexander II died because of his reforms, that was the main consequence he

In 1856, under pressure from Britain and France, the Ottoman Empire granted equal citizenship to everyone who agreed to follow their rules. Many people didn't want change and it caused problems in the empire. For example, in response to nationalism in Armenia, the ottomans massacred them. Soon the Ottoman Empire broke. This is why some people think nationalism is disunifying. Although, nationalism can be unifying as well. Nationalism destroys empires, it always builds them. The largest and most powerful Italian states were known as the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. Italian nationalist were looking for leadership in this kingdom. In 1848 the kingdom adopted a liberal constitution. To the middle class liberals, it seemed like a good plan. In 1852, Camilo di Cavour was named prime minister. He worked so hard to expand this kingdoms power. With him as prime minister he helped gain control of all northern Italy, except Venetia, with a strong alliance with Napoleon III. As Cavour was uniting Italy, he was secretly helping nationalist rebel in southern Italy. In 1860, Sicily was captured by a small army of Italian nationalist led by, Giuseppe Garibaldi, his army was known as “The red shirts.” Soon Italy was all one, because of nationalism. That is why some people may thing nationalism is both unifying and