Forty-Eighters

(noun)

Europeans who took part in or supported revolutionary movements across the continent in the year 1848.

Related Terms

  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • emancipation
  • executive order

Examples of Forty-Eighters in the following topics:

  • German Immigration

    • Following the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, a wave of political refugees fled to America who became known as "Forty-Eighters."
    • Prominent Forty-Eighters included Carl Schurz and Henry Villard.
    • Sentiment among German Americans was largely antislavery, especially among Forty-Eighters.
  • Emancipation

    • Sentiment among German Americans was largely antislavery, especially among Forty-Eighters.
  • Passage 1.1

    • Aeneas, vir fortis, dux est.
  • Interest Groups

    • For example, Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • For example, Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • The California Gold Rush

    • The gold-seekers, known as "forty-niners" (as a reference to the year 1849), often faced substantial hardships on the trip.
    • A forty-niner, so called because he was one of the men who came to California in 1849, pans for gold.
  • Venn Diagrams (optional)

    • Forty percent of the students at a local college belong to a club and 50% work part time.
  • African American Migration

    • To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
  • The World Bank

    • Forty-five countries pledged $25.1 billion in "aid for the world's poorest countries," aid that goes to the World Bank International Development Association (IDA) which distributes the loans to 80 poorer countries.
  • The Addition Rule

    • Forty-seven of the members are intermediate swimmers.
    • Forty of the advanced swimmers practice 4 times a week.
  • References

    • Bloom's taxonomy: a forty-year retrospective.
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