Revolutions from 1830 to 1848

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Were the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 really failures as many historians have concluded?

This is the essential question that my class was attempting to figure out most recently. The revolutions between these times were widly considered by most historians to be failures; many people died, and in most of them little change occured thanks to these revolutions. But that is mostly untrue. While in one of the revolutions we looked at had many casualties and little change from it, even that wasn't a comeplete failure. The definition of a revolution failing that we decided was if absolutely no change occured from a revolution, and all the people revolting were captured, killed, or in some way 'controlled'. To learn about each of these revolutions, we split into groups, and made  survey with information from the sources we were given.

The revolution I had was the French Revolution of 1830. This revolution was based off of unrest toawrds King Louis XVIII, who was appointed by the congress of Vienna to rule France in more of a constitutional monarchy as apposed to an all out monarch. Over time, the compromises that Louis made towards his power pleased less and less people. After some time, he abdicated the throne and Charles X took to the throne, but he turned out to be even worse. One of his proclamations went as far as to restrict the freedom of the press, disolve the chamber of deputies (Legislatures put in place by the Congress of Vienna), and then say he as the king had every right to limit these. After some time, Charles was removed from power, and Louis Philippe was put in place. While He was better, only the upper class prospered under his rule. The picture below is the results from my groups survey, with more information on this topic

And lastly, this is a link to the survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MX7JGS7

So, in answering the essential question, none of the other revolutions or mine were failures. Some change occured from all of them. In mine, Charles was removed from power. In others, if no change occured, the revolution still lived on in other people, and in others small changes occured that made something come from the revolution. Even if these were little victories, little victories are still successful, not a complete failure. I think this is something that is important to remember, as none of this was in vain, something always came from these people's sacrifice.

The rise of democracy

Democracy is the inclusion of a country's people in making key decisions in governmental elections. Recently we started discussing how democracy started to spread in the US. Not only place to place but over time to more and more people in places that already had it. Originally, most places had a legislature that voted on behalf of the people. The few places that allowed their people to vote, voting was limited to white male land owners, as well as payed taxes. If you didn't meet a single one of those qualifications then you were not aloud to vote, so naturally a fraction of the population could make decisions regrding elections. But at about 1832, all states except for one or two had eliminated legislatures, and very slowly over time more demographics could vote. Some of the sources we analyzed included charts of which sates allowed people to vote, the amount of people voting, a document protesting the lack of public voting in Rhode island, and more. We used these documents to put together the chart below.