During his long reign, some of the methods that Franz Josef used to maintain his Habsburg empire were:
1. He crushed a revolt by his Hungarian subjects and executed their leaders.
2. He split his empire into Austrian and Hungarian parts, and set up a parliament in Budapest.
<h3>What did Franz Josef do?</h3>
Franz Josef was a Habsburg emperor who was responsible for enlarging it and making it a very large empire. To do this, he needed to be ruthless sometimes.
One such time was when he crushed a revolt by the Hungarians and then killed their leaders as punishment. He then split the empire into the Austrian and Hungarian parts leading the empire being called the Austria - Hungary empire.
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
