German Revolutions Of 1848–49 Puns

In developing my timeline, I find myself stumped as to how my PoD will affect the Revolutions of 1848 as they happen in the German states, so I am asking for peoples' opinions and help. But first, let me lay a little groundwork.

In OTL, Britain started to withdraw from intervening in Europe and participation in the Concert of Europe and by the the time of the Troppau Conference it didn't even send a plenipotentiary, just an observer. France, in spite of having been readmitted to Great Power status by the maneuverings of Talleyrand and de Richelieu, was still rather unfocused and also did not send a plenipotentiary to Troppau.

But what if they had? What France and Britain had stayed more interested in the Concert of Europe and it's initial goal of keep the balance of power and preventing another Napoleonic event?

I won't go into the entire timeline, but the TLDR is that Britain and France tell Austria "hands off Italy" in response to Two Sicilies' call for help in 1820 (because of the Habsburgs' known desire for rule there) and Prussia, in spite of nominally being Austria's friend as part of the Holy Alliance goes along with it because of the intra-German rivalry.

This leads to a tit-for-tat "don't you dare intervene" in most cases in the ensuing decades and the smaller countries change their games accordingly as one would expect since they were always playing the Five Great Powers off against each other anyways.

A summary of the differences is:

• liberal constitutions retained in the Two Sicilies and Piedmont-Sardinia because of no Austrian intervention (1821)
• Austrian and French accession is necessary in problems in Spain (1st Carlist War) and Belgium (Revolution) and to get it Viscount Palmerston of Britain is forced to accede to Austrian intervention in the Italian duchy of Parma where the Austrian Emperor's daughter Marie Louise rules and the Duchy of Modena where the Habsburg cadet branch of Austria-Este rules, and to allowing the first choice for king of the Belgian Congress, Louis, Duke of Nemours, second son of the French King Louis Philippe (1831)
• lacking intervention outlets in Europe, the new Orléanist monarchy gives the cash-strapped Republic of Texas a badly needed loan to ensure influence in the New World (1839)
• Duke Charles Augustus II of Augustenborg is named heir to Frederik VI of Denmark in exchange for dropping his supported revolution in Schleswig-Holstein after the Prussians are pressured out of helping him (1848)
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Germans made up the largest immigrant minority in the united states during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly after the failed South German revolution of 1848, which lead many more democratic Germans to flee for the U.S., fight for the union in the civil war and support pro-abolition and workers rights legislation. German communities maintaining their language, culture and customs were found from Pennsylvania to the Dakotas to Texas.

However much of this cultural identity was suppressed or phased out following the sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmerman Telegram and the U.S. entry into the Great War, despite German immigrants and German Americans preferring neutrality over support for the German monarchy. This was intensified by magnitudes following WWII, leading to the more Anglo-centric cultural influences being dominant across the 20th century.

But what if in 1917 following U.S. entry into the war, instead of isolating and discriminating against their largest immigrant minority, the U.S. tried to recruit German American citizens to fight what they deemed the 'illegitimate' German government? That this was the opportunity to continue the revolution against 'royal tyranny' that their ancestors bravely fought back in 1848, linking their struggles to the American revolution and their fight for democracy and encouraging them to 'take back Germany'.

So how well would this recruitment strategy work? What would be the reaction to the public of German Americans and immigrants being portrayed as long suffering victims of their new enemies instead of spies or sympathizers? What would the allied response be to Germans being recruited to fight Germans? How does the dynamic of the war change with the U.S. implying that the Kaiser's rule is illegitimate and are now fighting a war to 'liberate' the German Federation from tyranny.

With the eventual victory, does the U.S. honor its word and push for a more democratic reform of German government or drop it as soon as the war is over and let their allies dictate the demands more much like OTL? How are German Americans viewed with the war portraying them as the 'real Germans'? Does this pseudo-notion of the 'two sets of Germans' persist into the 20s and 30s? Should the U.S. push for democratic reform fail, does the notion make a resurgence with the actions of the 3rd reich? The notion that the 'real Germans' wouldn't do that and that another war to free the homeland from tyranny maybe needed?

Instead of trying to regain them they instead have a dramatically different policy and try to unite Germany and beat Prussia as the biggest German state

In 1848 and 1849 a wave of revolutions swept over Europe, with most countries being affected in one form or the other. Many experienced the change from an Absolute Monarchy to a Constitutional Monarchy (for example Denmark), while others failed to contain the revolutionary fervor and turned wholly into Republics (France), while again others largely resisted the revolution and continued to be Absolute Monarchies, albeit with some progress (Abolition of Serfdom in Austria). In other cases the revolutions were more of a nationalistic nature than an anti-autocratic nature (Poland).

Most other revolutions before (such as the Glory Revolution in England or the French Revolution of 1789) and after the 1848/49 revolutions were restricted to their individual countries. The 1848/49 revolutions were the largest revolutionary upheaval in Europe ever.

Why is that?

Furthermore, not every country experienced revolutionary upheaval. Russia, Belgium and Spain did not experience much unrest, among others.

Why?

The German revolution of 1848 was an attempt to unite the German Confederation. Ultimately, it failed because of the Frankfurt Assembly and because its members could not form coalitions. So what if it succeeded?

So historically the Revolutionaries wanted to establish a German state by asking the Prussian King Frederick William IV. to be their Emperor. He rejected historically, but what if they succeeded?

I've already posted this question a few months ago, but I am posting this once more because I got no answers. :(

German immigration peaked during the period of 1850-1860, with over 900,000 German immigrants immigrating to the United States. As well, it is reported that people from all over the world tried to enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War (though they were turned down because actively recruiting them would break neutrality laws) along with massive numbers of immigrants within the United States. (Out of 2 million Union soldiers, an estimated 543,000 were immigrants and another 317,000 were sons of immigrants)

This would mean that these refugees (many of which were in influential, high-level positions) would have a large influence on Civil War Era politics. So, what impacts did they have on Civil War Era American politics?

As well, some separate questions I have are:

• What percent of the German refugees would be sympathetic towards 48ers but not a 48er?

• Where did many of 48ers migrate to and why? (I've heard New York City, Chicago, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Texas which all seem like wildly different places)

• What general resources would you recommend so that I can learn more about the role German 48ers played during this time period?

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In the early 19th century, Europe began seeing massive discontent with the absolutist monarchies across the continent in part due to the rise of liberalism, nationalism, and the new communist movements. The skilled workers and artisans' numbers fell by 93% from 1815 to 1845 due to increased foreign trade and technology. Warehouse and factory workers remained working but their purchasing power dropped significantly as did their quality of life. These combined led to some popularity for Marx and Engels who published the Communist Manifesto in early 1848. Polish Nobility had an uprising in 1846 as more of the population began to demand universal male suffrage not just for the landowners. The early 1840s saw several famines that particularly hit rural areas hard, and the potato blight wasn’t just hitting Ireland, but all of Europe. This would culminate in an alliance of the rural farmers, poor workers, skilled artisans, and even nobility against the monarchies throughout Europe in 1848. This was not a singular movement, though, rather a very divided one that popped up in many different cities and kingdoms with similar goals, at first.

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