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Following rebellions in 1837 and 1838, 1848 in Canada saw the establishment of responsible government in Nova Scotia and The Canadas, the first such governments in the British Empire outside the United Kingdom.
3 sty 2002 · The Europe-wide economic and social crisis of the mid-1840s helped to shaped the revolutionary events in central Europe in 1848–9 and has been regarded as the main cause of the German revolution. During the first revolutionary wave, the revolts by peasants as well as protests by artisans and casual worker lacked central coordination.
A mass campaign with political rallies and party mobilization had molded a candidate to fit an ideal palatable to a majority of American voters, and in 1840 Harrison won what many consider the first modern election.
The first new party, the small and politically weak Liberty Party founded in 1840, was a single-issue party, as were many of those that followed it. Its members were abolitionists who fervently believed slavery was evil and should be ended, and that this was best accomplished by political means.
First of all there was a widespread and general expectation of a revolution to come. The ground was so well prepared intellectually by Europe-wide reform discussions and demands that the forbidding of a banquet became the spark which triggered revolutionary action in Paris.
5 cze 2012 · “The people” of 1840s Europe were the peasants – a point that would surprise not a few contemporaries in 1848, when “the people” went from being the objects of political rhetoric to the subjects of political action.
According to Morgan, the first organization of society was made on the basis of sex--the separation between male and female constituted the first class dichotomy. Monogamy was an ideal form of social organization, but in the meantime polygamy was a reformatory stage permitting the rudiments of government.
