Chapter 17

Question 1

What is associated with the word “same?”

Answer 1

conservatism

Question 2

What is associated with the word “change?”

Answer 2

liberalism

Question 3

What is associated with the word “rewind?”

Answer 3

reactionism

Question 4

What is the love of one’s country?

Answer 4

nationalism

Question 5

What are the focuses of romanticism?

Answer 5

focus on distant lands
focus on distant times
love of nature
love of freedom
noble savages

Question 6

When did France “sneeze?”

Answer 6

July 1830

June 1848

Question 7

Who was affected by France in 1830?

Answer 7

Italy and Belgium

Question 8

Who was affected by France in 1848?

Answer 8

Italy and Germany

Question 9

Who was the leading figure of the congress of Vienna?

Answer 9

Meternich

Question 10

What is the quote from our chapter?

Answer 10

“When France sneezes, all Europe catches cold”

Question 11

In what city did representatives of the victorious nations gather to decide how to restore the order and stability of Europe?

Answer 11

Vienna

Question 12

What principles guided the congress as they sought to restore those rulers whom Napoleon had ousted?

Answer 12

Conservatism and Reactionism

Question 13

The cooperation among the member nations of Europe to avoid wars and to suppress nationalism and liberalism was known as what?

Answer 13

Congress system

Question 14

Name the two countries in which the alliance system suppressed uprisings in the 1820s.

Answer 14

Spain and Italy

Question 15

What country did members of the alliance system assist in its revolt during the 1820s?

Answer 15

Spain

Question 16

In what country were the revolutionary fires of the 1830s and 1848 first sparked?

Answer 16

France

Question 17

What country gained its independence from the Netherlands through the revolts of the 1830s?

Answer 17

Belgium

Question 18

Following the violence of the “June Days,” whom did the people of France elect as president of the Second French Republic?

Answer 18

Louis Napoleon

Question 19

Name the young Austrian ruler who renounced the concessions of his predecessor and crushed nationalistic revolts throughout his empire.

Answer 19

Franz Josef I

Question 20

What policy did Czar Nicholas I institute in Russia to strengthen his control over the state?

Answer 20

Russification

Question 21

What three European nations fought on the side of the Turks against Russia in the Crimean War?

Answer 21

Britain
France
the kingdom of Sardinia

Question 22

Who was the prime minister of Sardinia primarily responsible for the unification of Italy?

Answer 22

Count Cavour

Question 23

Who was the Prussian politician primarily responsible for the unification of Germany?

Answer 23

Otto von Bismarck

Question 24

Against what three European nations did Otto von Bismarck take Prussia to war to achieve his goal?

Answer 24

Denmark
Austria
France

Question 25

As a result of Austria’s military defeat, what nationality within the Austrian Empire was able to achieve self-government?

Answer 25

Hungarians

Question 26

What was Czar Alexander II’s most important social reform?

Answer 26

the abolishment of serfdom

Question 27

What is the name of the cultural movement that gave literary and artistic expression to the concepts of “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity”?

Answer 27

romanticism

Question 28

List one of the prominent themes in the works of romantic writers.

Answer 28

• longing for distant lands or the distant past
• fascination with the supernatural and the mysterious
• glorification of the “noble savage”
• emphasis on nature
• love of freedom
• pride in one’s nation