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Obstacles to Industrialization 1. lack of labour-95% of people worked on farms 2. lack of food supply- farmers only made enough food for themselves 3. fallow field system-1 of 3 fields would lie fallow for a year 4. poor transport- between cities and possible industrial areas 5. many countries had no common currency and no unified law code 6. Aristocracy- were pro farms and usually anti-industrialization 7. Guilds- constricted the economy and practiced Mercantilism -England started the Industrial Revolution bc: -they already had …

…chairman Revolutions of 1848 Peasant's wanted: 1. an end to feudalism in countries where feudalism still existed 2. increase of farming land and reduction in taxes Worker's wanted: 1. in Paris: the right to form unions, unemployment insurance, right to vote and a minimum wage 2. in the German states where guilds still existed the restructering of the guilds Middle Class wanted: 1. extension of liberal rights 2. in the German states national unification 3. independence in Bohemia, Hungary and the Italian States