With the introduction of a constitution granting civil and political liberties in the Austrian Empire in 1860, the Slovene national movement gained force. Despite its internal differentiation among the conservative Old Slovenes and the progressive Young Slovenes, the Slovene nationals defended similar programs, calling for a cultural and political autonomy of the Slovene people. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a series of mass rallies called tabori, modeled on the Irish monster meetings, were organized in support of the United Slovenia program. These rallies, attended by thousands of people, proved the allegiance of wider strata of the Slovene population to the ideas of national emancipation.
With the introduction of a constitution granting civil and political liberties in the Austrian Empire in 1860 the Slovene national movement gained force Despite its internal differentiation among the conservative Old Slovenes and the progressive Young Slovenes the Slovene nationals defended similar programs calling for a cultural and political autonomy of the Slovene people In the late 1860s and early 1870s a series of mass rallies called tabori modeled on the Irish monster meetings were organized in support of the United Slovenia program These rallies attended by thousands of people proved the allegiance of wider strata of the Slovene population to the ideas of national emancipation