Who were the ‘liberal’? What ideas were supported by them?

● In the early 19th century, Europe was closely related to the ideology of liberalism.

● The term liberalism is derived from the latin word liber which means free.

● Liberalism means freedom of the individual and equality of everyone before law.

● It focused on the concept of the government by consent.

● It also promoted the right to vote and to get elected was generated only to the property owning men.

● Men without property and all the women did not had any political right.

● This section of the society organized movements demanding equal political rights.

● It also abolished all the restrictions imposed by states on the movements of goods and capitals.

● New commercial classes had grown and they demanded a creation of unified economic territory allowing the free movement of goods and capital.

● The union abolished all the tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from 30 to 2.