Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21 st Century
The European Reaction to the Revolution
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The European Reaction to the Revolution
• For those champions of the Enlightenment, the revolution was good
• Radical political groups began to grow in Italy and Germany
• Austria and Prussia thought the revolution would eclipse France as a major power
• Enlightened rulers from Eastern Europe saw the possibility of revolution and renounced the enlightened ideas
Suppression of Reform in Britain
• William Pitt the Younger championed the revolution as a means of liberty for France– As reform movements in Britain began, Pitt began
to fear revolution– Began suppressing working-class reform groups– Sponsored mob action to drive Joseph Priestley, a
radical thinker, out of Britain– Suspended habeas corpus and freedom of the
press
Edmund Burke (British) Attacks• wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France
(1790) – said revolution will end in military despotism
• Not against reform, but felt the removal of monarch and church would lead to rule by force
• Predicted increased violence in France (1790)• Wanted evolutionary change not
revolutionary