1848 Revolutions: CAUSES

Long term causes:

• the population increased greatly as people from the countryside were migrating into the cities
• there was insufficient jobs
• 100,000 was the population in Berlin
• a decline in death rate was most likely the cause of increased population as well
• people who lived in rented properties on farms complained that the rent was very high
• men, women and children worked 13 hours a day on pay that wasn't particularly great
• as industry grew, more machinery was used to produce goods as it was…