European Spring (Think Before You Enact)

The European Spring was an wave of demostrations and revolution that ouccured in Europe from the end of the Seven Year's of War in 1763 to the end of the Russian Revolution in (TBD). The European Spring officially began after the French government was overthrown by revolutionaries, and placed an democracy in its place. The idea of democracy spread to Spain, after thousands of supporters marched to Madrid to demand that the monarchy be removed from power, and place an democartic govenrment in. The government of Spain soon fled the Iberian peninsula, and formed the nation of Gran Colombia in New Spain. The German states and Italian states deposed their Catholic monarchs, which severly reduced the power of the Pope to the now city-state of Vatican City. The most violent of the protests was the Russian Revolution, which was on the verge of escalating to an civil war between the democratic protestors and the monarchy supporters.

Poland-Lithuania, Switzerland, and the Netherlands were also affected by the European Spring, but their monarch governments passed reforms, allowing for the monarchs to stay in power, but establishing an partial-democarcy. Portugal and Great Britain recieved small amounts of protest, but quickly dispersed after letting up on regulations of Catholicsm and other ideas or groups that were either condemned by the British Crown, or were disapproved of by the British people. Great Britain also passed reforms, which calmed the Catholic population in Ireland, and led them to staying with the United Kingdom. The idea of democracy soon reached the Thirteen Colonies and Canada, but to keep the colonies within the British Empire, the British crown passed an law called the Dominion System. The Dominion System allowed for each colony to maintain domestic relations and regulations, but all foreign policy and military action must be approved by the British Parliment.