Booklet 1

Question 1

Congress of Vienna

Answer 1

Meeting of the Great Powers following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 2

Meritocracy

Answer 2

Getting the job because you’re good at it

Question 3

Risorgimento

Answer 3

National uprising which comes from the Italian people

Question 4

Federation

Answer 4

Where all the states of the Peninsula could join together with a common leadership yet still retain some state freedoms

Question 5

Reactionary

Answer 5

Returning to the ways of the past. Linked with restoring of leaders/monarchs

Question 6

Progressive

Answer 6

Favouring reform and more liberal ideas

Question 7

Unification

Answer 7

Turning a group of separate states into one united country

Question 8

Radicalism

Answer 8

Using extreme methods to make political gains

Question 9

Jesuits

Answer 9

Extreme catholics

Question 10

Papal/ Papacy

Answer 10

A thing involving the Pope

Question 11

Republicanism

Answer 11

People have the right to vote for an elected leader & no monarch

Question 12

Constitutional monarchy

Answer 12

The monarch retains their role but is answerable to the people

Question 13

Conservatism

Answer 13

Believing in traditions and resistant to change

Question 14

Liberalism

Answer 14

Believe in reform, progress and individual freedoms

Question 15

Nationalism

Answer 15

Strong love for your country, which you want to be free from foreign rule

Question 16

Parochial

Answer 16

Involving local concerns

Question 17

Socialist

Answer 17

Believe change comes from the people

Question 18

Peninsula

Answer 18

A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water

Question 19

Political apathy

Answer 19

Not being interested in politics