Free Response Industrial Revolution

Explain how the Industrial Revolution influenced the rise of conservative and liberal philosophies and explain how those philosophies competed with or related to nationalism in Greece and Germany.

The Industrial Revolution was a great time period for Western Civilization. It created a much easier and more productive lifestyle, and gained a great deal of profit from it. However, the revolution also came along with different views. There were conservatives as well as liberalists. The conservative and liberal philosophies of the Industrial Revolution related greatly to the nationalism in Greece and Germany of that time because of how everyone was very in delved in their country and wanted it to be better.
The conservative philosophies mainly stayed the same throughout Western Europe. They did not want any change that would alter the status quo of the people. In France, people wanted to go back a step by staying at the Napoleonic stage, when they had freedom of the press, as well as the Napoleonic Laws. England wanted to stay the same as well. In Russia once Alexander died, people wanted change and thought that his brother Constantine would take over and change the conservativeness of Russia. However he did no such thing and instead handed over the throne to his brother Nicholas, who was very conservative. But before Alexander died, he became greatly paranoid and sent out secret services and set up more enforcements on the people to stay conservative. England stayed the same as well, and made very few changes to their philosophies.

The liberalists of the Industrial Revolution did quite the opposite. They wanted change and were going to work for it. In England when the Corn Law went into affect, people had a hard time affording any grains. But things would change some, and eventually the law would be revoked and the people could afford to buy grains again. In France, the emigrates came back to try and exterminate the Terror enthusiasts that had forced them to leave. They started a problem there that called for a change in the conservative philosophy as well. In Greece, the Ottoman Turks were being rebelled against. The Grecian people did not want them as their leaders anymore, which caused a problem in Britain because they thought that the revolution in Greece would spread into other countries. In Germany, there was a university that came up with a liberal thinkers group that made peaceful demonstrations about becoming a liberal country. However, when one of the members shot an important conservative, things became much stricter and they were watched over by the government very closely.

In Germany and Greece, the people were very proud of their country. However, there was a need for change in both. In Greece, they wanted to overthrow the Ottoman Turks who had been there for a long time and had controlled Greece. There was a mass killing on one of the islands that caused even greater turmoil there. In Germany, they controlled Austria and Poland. Austria was the greatest in terms of power and size over the rest of the countries. Because of this, Germany did not want to lose control over Austria, for fear of being attacked by them.

Both liberal and conservative philosophies were brought up and influenced by the Industrial Revolution. Conservatives did not want to change their ways and their status quo. However, the people did. They wanted the changes to be made and created demonstrations to show this yearn for change. In Greece, they got the Ottoman Turks to change. In Germany however, they did not change a great deal, and they kept hold of Austria. In the end, both liberal and conservative philosophies related to and competed against the Greek and German nationalism.