Chapter 10 Flashcards
agricultural revolution
- started in England and Holland
- enclosure movement
- crop rotation
enclosure movement
privatized land formerly available to everyone
-basically landownership in fewer hands
causes of the industrial revolution
- population growth (small pox vaccination)
- encouragement of investment
- strong central banking
- additional markets in colonial system
- free trade in Europe
- abundant capital
outcomes of the industrial revolution
- impoverishment of domestic weavers (family economy and putting out system)
- factory life instead of putting out system
- poor housing
- improvement of housing after 1840s
romanticisim
- Gothic
- irrational feelings
- traditional views
- response to rationalism (enlightenment)
- response to rationalism and terror of french revolution
- response to ugliness of IR
characteristics of romantism
-sincerity, authentiicy and toleration (french revolution)
-value emotion and religion
-mysticism
-harmony with nature (not control, IR)
-past history
-nationalism
worship of nature
folklore, folk song
-against materialism
-pantheism
-past (Greek and medieval)
pantheism
great force in nature with God
Rousseau
natural education
- individuality (emotion instead of science)
- social contract
kant
reconcile enlightened rationalism with human freedom, immortality and God
goethe
deep spiritual feelings
improvement of man kind
reason cannot save us
Alexander I
- tsar during Napoleonic war
- initially interested in limited reforms
- becomes more conservative after defeat of napoleon
Nicholas I
- come to power after decembrist uprisings
- reactionary conservative
decembrist uprisings
Alexander’s brother Constantine was supposed to be king, but then Nichols became king
this caused military leaders to rebel against Nicholas
-these leaders were expsoed to liberal ideas
Carlsbad decrees
suppressed student liberalism and nationalism in Austria
great Britain from 1740-1848
- there were problems with the voting distribution and rotten boroughs
- there was also the problem of the corn laws
- many people protested against this (peter loo massacre)
- then the government started to reform (repeal of corn laws)
- reform act of 1832