Question

Differentiate between Liberals, radicals, and Conservatives.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Liberals: They believed in a system which accepted all religions and not concentrates on a single religion.
2. Radicals: They wanted a nation where the government should be elected by a majority of the population and some of them wanted women to participate in the same.
3. Conservatives believed in traditional and cultural values. They were the people who supported monarchy and nobility. They believed that privileges of the monarchy and nobility should exist. After the French Revolution, they contended that gradual changes should be brought in the society.

Answer 2

Answer:

Liberals: They believed in changing the society. They wanted a nation which tolerated all religions. They wanted to safeguard the rights of individuals against government. However, they thought that only propertied men should have the right to vote. They also did not want women to vote.

Radicals: In contrast, they believed in the rule of majority of the country's population. They opposed the privileged of the landowners and factory owners and supported women's right to vote.

Conservatives: They opposed both the liberals and radicals. Earlier they opposed any kind of change but by the nineteenth century, they accepted the change but believed that the past has to be brought through a slow process.