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New industries and jobs created changes in
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Carlos IV became King in 1788 just before the start of the French Revolution. He was not interested in politics, so he gave the Spanish Prime Minister, Manuel Godoy, all of his power. -
The French Revolution was a time of social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that began in 1789 and ended in 1799. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, Its overthrow of the Monarchy influenced the decline of absolute Monarchies in other parts of Europe. -
Spanish freedom fighters were rounded up and massacred by the French. Their blood literally ran through the streets of Madrid. -
Part of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces. -
Limited the power of the monarchy, the abolished feudalism, provided equality between Spanish born Spaniards and Americans, and ended the Spanish inquisition. -
Ferdinand VII failed to use his considerable political capital to regenerate the monarchy and rest it on a constitutional foundation. In the end he even lost his prestige among the ultra conservative forces in the kingdom who joined his brother in a struggle against his heir, Isabel II, after his death in 1833. -
The elder daughter of Ferdinand VII by his fourth wife, María Cristina, Isabella was proclaimed queen on her father's death in 1833. -
sabella's failure to respond to growing demands for a more progressive regime, her questionable private life, and her political irresponsibility contributed to the decline in monarchical strength and prestige that led to her deposition in the Revolution of 1868. -
The dynastic war between Isabelline liberalism and Carlism was a savage civil war between urban liberalism and rural traditionalism, between the poorly paid and poorly equipped regular army of the liberal governments, supporting Isabella, and the semi-guerrilla forces of the Carlists. -
Amadeo of Savoy's reign in Spain (1871–1873) was one of the earliest experiments in democratic monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe. This brief period represents the main attempt to overcome mixed government and submit the Spanish Crown to a framework of constitutional rights and liberties. -
He was a Spanish officer who rose against the First Spanish Republic in a military revolution in 1874 and restored Spain's Bourbon dynasty. Later, he became Captain-General of Cuba. -
Spanish king whose short reign (1874–85) gave rise to hopes for a stable constitutional monarchy in Spain. -
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U.S. victory in the war produced a peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba, and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States. The United States also annexed the independent state of Hawaii during the conflict. -
Apart from guaranteeing the independence of Cuba, the treaty also forced Spain to cede Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States. Spain also agreed to sell the Philippines to the United States for the sum of $20 million. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty on February 6, 1899, by a margin of only one vote.