Scaling Failing

Last week, we learned about many European Revolutions, including the Revolutions of 1830 & 1848.  The essential question was: Were the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 really a failure as historians have said?  Many governments made changes following the Congress of Vienna, and many people did not approve or agree with them, so they revolted.  In an activator, we were presented with a map and a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville that read "We are sleeping on a volcano. Do you not see that the earth trembles anew? A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon."  As a class, we concluded that his quote meant that there were many revolutions, especially more than there was independence, and Europe could've erupted in chaos at any time.   Once the ideas had spread, revolutions would spread too and they would not be ignored, and that the eruption started in France.  We seperated into 5 different groups, and each group was assigned a revolution and a task to make a surveymonkey for our classmates to take and learn from.

In Austria in 1848, nationalists and liberals fought to have an independent government, to have serfdom abolished, and to have a constitution that protected their basic rights.  Their biggest opponent was Klemens von Metternich, and his Austrian government.  The result of the entire revolution was neutral, a partial success but also a partial failure.  In a revolutionary song called "DECLARATION RELATIVE TO THE SEPARATION OF HUNGARY FROM AUSTRIA", revolutionaries sang about how they wanted to seperate their country of Hungary from Austria, and to defeat Metternich.  One of the lines of the song is "We truly swear the tyrant's yoke No more to bear!", talking about Metternich and his unfair ruling.  In the photo below from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it shows how the Austrian government joined forces with the Russians, and defeated the revolutionaries.  Lucky for the revolutionaries, Metternich fled, and they were able to take control of Vienna, but that all came to an end when they were defeated by Russia and Austria.  Our group distributed the same information that we learned about the Hungarian Revolution from to the rest of our class, and quizzed them on their learning with our Survey Monkey.  After viewing our classmate's results, they proved that they learned pretty well.  In the second photo below, it shows that 93% of the class got the answer to "What were the main goals of the revolution?" correct, which is good because that is one of the most important things to take away from the revolution.

"The Austrian Emperor 

and Russian Czar 

overwhelming the 

Hydra of Revolution"

Most of the revolutions that we learned about had some aspects of success and failure to them, aside from the horrible failure of the Decembrist Revolution.  Decembrist revolutionaries trusted Tsar Alexander to make a constitutional monarchy, end serfdom, and give Russia a constitution, but he nearly did the opposite.  He did not use his power for good, and gave Poland a constitution instead of Russia, and severely mistreated the lower class.  We also learned about the French Revolution of 1848, which turned out to be neutral because they accomplished getting rid of their king, Louis Philippe, but also ended up being ruled by a republic of radicals, liberals, and socialists.    The French Revolution o 1830 proved to have a fairly positive outcome, because revolutionaries were able to overthrow Charles X, but then Louis Philippe became king, which lead to a downfall 18 years later.  In my opinion, the answer to the essential question would be no, because the Decembrist Revolution was the only revolution that appeared to me as a complete and utter failure.