Social Studies SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS(3 Mark)

i. The autocrats of Central and Eastern Europe restored the old order but could also suppress the liberal movements in 1848 as the monarchs were beginning to understand that the cycles of revolution and repression could only be terminated by granting concessions to the liberal-nationalist revolutionaries.
ii. Hence, in the years following 1848, the autocratic monarchies of Central and Eastern Europe started introducing the changes that had already taken place in Western Europe prior to 1815.
iii. Thus, the bonded labour and serfdom were abolished both in Russia and the Habsburg dominations.
iv. In 1867, the Hungarians were granted more autonomy by the Habsburg rulers.

Ireland was a country deeply divided between Catholics and Protestants. The English helped the Protestants of Ireland to establish their dominance over largely Catholic country. Catholic revolts against British dominance were suppressed. After a failed revolt led by wolf Tone and his United Irishmen, Ireland was forcibly incorporated in to United Kingdom in 1801.