User:PlushKangaroo/1851 Chilean Revolution

Background
After the Battle of Lircay ended the Chilean Civil War of 1829–30, Chile formed a conservative political system under the 1833 Constitution, drafted by Mariano Egaña, which established a one-party presidential polity. In the succeeding decades, various liberal social and political movements emerged, led by intellectuals like Santiago Arcos, Francisco Bilbao, José Victorino Lastarria and Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna. These and others formed institutions such as the Literary Society of 1842 and the Society of Equality, which sought to rally the population to achieve an increase in civil rights. The European Revolutions of 1848 also inspired and encouraged opposition political movements, who increasingly saw armed action as the most realistic means of forcing political change.·

(Talk about how the press played a role in the rebellion, write what you wish to add here and then mess it into the original work)

During the 1840s many small newspapers began to appear in Chile such as, Guerra a la Tiranía, which used language that facilitated violence among liberal social groups throughout Chile. Other newspapers such as El Semanario and El Mercurio, two popular newspapers at the time, began to denounce these new slandrous newspapers such as Guerra a la Tiranía in order to stop their dangerous journalism from further dividing political parties.