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In Spanish Latin America, the Revolution of 1848 appeared in New Granada, where Colombian students, liberals, and intellectuals demanded the election of General José Hilario López. He took power in 1849 and launched major reforms, abolishing slavery and the death penalty, and providing freedom of the press and of religion.
August 15 – Timothy Olmstead, composer, fifer in the American Revolutionary War (born 1759) August 30 – Simon Willard, horologist (born 1753) October 25 – Dixon Hall Lewis, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (born 1802) December 31 – Ambrose Hundley Sevier, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1836 to 1848 (born 1801)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford History of the United States. ISBN 9780199726578. Weyler, Karen A. (2012). "Chapter 11: John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women's Rights". In Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J. (eds.). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. pp. 227–246.
The political impact of the 1848 revolutions was more evident in Austria in comparison to the revolution's effects in countries like Germany. This is attributed to the way the upheavals in Vienna resulted in greater loss of life and gained stronger support from intellectuals, students, and the working class. [ 18 ]
Disappointed by the failure of the Prussian Revolution in 1848, the biologist Fritz Müller realised there might be adverse effects on his life and career. As a result, he emigrated to South Brazil in 1852, with his brother August and their wives, to join Hermann Blumenau's new colony in the State of Santa Catarina.
The American Revolution was an ideological and political ... French Revolution of 1848; 5 October 1910 revolution; ... in terms of long-term impact on American ...
The revolutionary regime is always divided between radicals and moderates who agree on the ultimate goal — such misty objectives as making America great again — but disagree on the means to ...
Issues of slavery in the new territories acquired in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) were temporarily resolved by the Compromise of 1850. One provision, the Fugitive Slave Law , sparked intense controversy, as revealed in the enormous interest in the plight of the escaped slave in Uncle Tom's Cabin , an 1852 anti-slavery novel and play.