Some Issues:
- Liberalism shifted from lasses-faire to interventionist economic and social policies on behalf of the les privilege
- Government reforms transformed unhealthy and overcrowded cities by modernizing infrastructure, regulating public health, reforming prisons, and establishing modern police forces.
*All information is taken from AP European History Curriculum Framework
Overall, the issue was that people had different ideas on how a government should be run for a better society which made more internal fighting in the European countries.
- The problems of industrialization provoked a range of ideological, governmental, and collective responses.
- Liberals emphasized popular sovereignty, individual rights, and enlightened self-interest but debated the extent to which all groups in society should actively participate in its governance.
- Radicals in Britain and republicans on the continent demand universal male suffrage and full citizenship without regard to wealth and property ownership; some argued that such rights should be extended to women.
- Conservatives developed a new ideology in support of traditional political and religious authorities, which was based on the idea that human nature was not perfectible.
- Socialists called for a fair distribution of society’s resources and wealth, and evolved from a utopian to a Marxist “scientific” critique of capitalism.
- Anarchists asserted that all forms of governmental authority were unnecessary, and should be overthrown and replaced with a society based on voluntary cooperation.
- Nationalists encouraged loyalty to the nation in a variety of ways, including romantic idealism, liberal reform, political unification, racialism with a concomitant anti-Semitism, and chauvinism justification national aggrandizement.
- A from of Jewish nationalism, Zionism, developed in the late 19th century as a response to growing anti-Semitism in both western and eastern Europe.
- Governments responded to the problems created or exacerbated by industrialization by expanding their functions and creating modern bureaucratic states.
- Liberalism shifted from lasses-faire to interventionist economic and social policies on behalf of the les privilege
- Government reforms transformed unhealthy and overcrowded cities by modernizing infrastructure, regulating public health, reforming prisons, and establishing modern police forces.
- Feminists pressed for legal, economic, and political rights for women, as well as improved working conditions.
*All information is taken from AP European History Curriculum Framework
Overall, the issue was that people had different ideas on how a government should be run for a better society which made more internal fighting in the European countries.