Ch. 4.2 Reaction and Revolution

Question 1

conservatism

Answer 1

political philosophy based on tradition and social stability. favored obedience to political authority and believed religions beneficial. hated revolutions+unwilling to accept rep. gov’t or more individual rights. advocates: rulers and Metternich

Question 2

principle of intervention

Answer 2

Great Powers had right to send armies into countries with revolutions to keep monarchs in power

Question 3

liberalism

Answer 3

political philosophy that people should be as free as possible from gov’t restraint

Question 4

universal male suffrage

Answer 4

all adult men could vote

Question 5

multinational state

Answer 5

collection of different peoples (ex. Austrian Empire had Germans, Czechs, Slovaks…)

Question 6

(a) stability

Answer 6

“Conservatism is based on tradition and social STABILITY.”

Question 7

(a) beneficial

Answer 7

“They also believed that established religions were BENEFICIAL to social order.”

Question 8

(p) Congress of Vienna

Answer 8

reps. of Great Powers (GB, Austria, Prussia, Russia) agreed to work to restore old order at this meeting in 1814

Question 9

(p) Klemens von Metternich

Answer 9

foreign minister of Austria. influential at Congress of Vienna. principle of legitimacy: lawful European monarchs should be restored to thrones.

Question 10

(p) Bill of Rights

Answer 10

American document. liberals wanted individual rights to be protected in a written document, like this one.

Question 11

(p) Louis-Napoleon

Answer 11

nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. elected French president in Dec. 1848

Question 12

(p) German Confederation

Answer 12

38 independent German states

Question 13

(pl) Vienna

Answer 13

gathered in this city’s palace for Congress of Vienna on Sept. 1814

Question 14

(pl) Prague

Answer 14

Austrian forces crushed Czech rebels here on June 1848