Chapters 18-19 Flashcards

1
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Causes of French Revolution

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Financial crisis from wars, inability to tax

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Compte Rendu

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Jacques Necker 1781-Public report that says to ignore American Rev. debt, stop paying pensions to nobles, and no taxes then gov. would have surplus of $

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3
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Estates General 1789

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Assembly of Notables said only the Estates General could decide on financial proposals, Louis XVI asks for grievances

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4
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Charles Calonne financial reforms

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Free internal trade, no trade barriers, lower taxes (gabelle) corvee from manual to monetary due, unersal land tax including nobles and church (taille)

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1st and 2nd Estates limit 3rd Estate

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Assembly of Nobles-voting by representatives, 300 each estate
Parliament of Paris-Voting by estates (1 each)
Royal Council Decision-Doubling the Third

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6
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Cahiers de Doleances

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Indirect taxes, government waste, hunting rights, absolutism, church, property ownership, Estate General’s meeting, Marie Antionette

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7
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National Assembly

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3rd Estate and reform-minded 1-2 estate-Agree to meet until limit powers of king

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Tennis Court Oath

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June 20 1789-Will NOT stop meeting until consitution is written

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9
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Riots in 1788 and 1789

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Louis XVI mobilized troops, bread riots

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10
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Storming of the Bastille

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Believe guns and political prisoners-none-Start revolution July 14 1789

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11
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The Great Fear

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Fear royal troops take food, fight against 1-2 estates-shows lower classes’ tipping point

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12
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Night of August 4th

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Constitution inhibited by things-“Feudalism is abolished” no privileges or social classes

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13
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Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

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Aug. 27 1789-Inspired by Declaration of Independence, Due process, popular sovereignty, etc.

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14
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Jean Paul Marat

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“Friend of the People” anti-gov propoganda “Let them eat cake” incited the October Days

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15
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October Days

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“Fierce and fish” ladies take up arms when false rumor of king stamping on tricolor

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16
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National Consituent Assembly

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Constituional Monarchy, used to be National Assembly, Laissez-faire

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17
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Constitution of 1791

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Limited monarchy, legislative Assembly, members of NCA can’t be part of it, laws, taxes, war/peace

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18
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Declaration of the Rights of Women

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Olympe de Gouges-Addressed to queen

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19
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Economic reforms in Reconstruction of France

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Administrative (departments) Economic (deregulate grain trade, metric system, abolish trade unions, Assignats) Religious (Chruch>State)

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20
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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July 1790- Church under state control, Jurying clergy (took oath) Refractory (didn’t take-majority)

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21
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Roman Catholic Church views on Revolution

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Condemned revolution and constitution via Pope Pius VI

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22
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Emigres

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Self-exiles, nobles/royal to Austria and Netherlands

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23
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Jacobins

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Montagnard-Radical liberals, favor republics, Rousseauian decision, Girondists-conservatives, constitutional monarchy-most authority

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24
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Sans Culottes

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Wanted no food shortages, social equality, republicans. Storming of the Tuileries. Paris Commune

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25
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September Massacres

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Stormed cities to squahs counterrevolutionary threats in prision-executions on spot w/o due process. >1,200 executed, most peasants. Discredited revolution abroad

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26
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Declaration of Pillnitz

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Leopold II and Frederick William II (Austria and Prussia) promise if royal family harmed they will invade. Pushed revolution into radical course of action

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27
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National Convention

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Named after American’s, Write democratic consitution and declare France a republic. “Citizen Capet” Jan. 21 1793 Louis XVI beheaded

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28
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Countries at war w/ France

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Austria, Prussia, Spain, Britain

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29
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Edmund Burke

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REflections on the Revolution in France-Said applied blind rationalism, forecasted further turmoil and deaths of king and queen

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30
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Partitions of Poland

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1793, 1795-Result of fears that revolutionary ideas spread to Poland, Russian invasion to ensure Poland remained reliant on Russia

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31
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Levee en masse

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Mass military conscription resulting in first European citizen based army, show secular idea of nationhood

32
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“Republic Virtue”

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Republican dress, Robespire, repress women, de-Christianization, revolutionary tribunals

33
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Challenges revolutionary gov. had

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Pro-royalists, coalition, counterrevolutionaries, religious division, economics, war, political divisions

34
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COmmittee of Public Safety

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12 radical ppl, eliminate threats in National Convention

35
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Reign of Terror

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Sept 1793-Aug 1784, Revoltuionary period National Convention defend Republic-Committee of Public Safety

36
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Law 22 Prairial

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no due process, no evidence needed

37
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Robespierre

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July 28 1794- guillotined-spread the Fear more actually

38
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Thermidorian Reaction

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End Terror-Robespierre’s death marked symbol of Terror, destroy guillotine, moderates, White terror

39
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“Bands of Jesus”

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Those who tormented radicals and Jacobins in the White Terror following Reign of Terror

40
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Women’s rights before/after Revolution

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Same-traditional household roles

41
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Napoleon Conaparte

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Corsica (French territory), artillery expert

42
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Coup of 18 Brumaire

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Military coup, First Consulate, Abbe Sieyes replaced by BOnaparte

43
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Treaty of Campo Formio

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France and Austria-conclude campaigns in Italy. End First Coalition

44
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Battle at Abukir

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French defeat by Horatio Nelson in Egypt

45
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Suppress Foreign and domestic opposition

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Treaty of Luneville-Austria, Amiens-Britain, General Amnesty, Peace with the Church

46
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Concordat of 1801

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Clergy chosen by Pope, state>church, rechristened France, reconcile France with chruch

47
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Napoleonic Code

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Civil Code of 1804-Standardize French law, Feudal rights and serfdom abolished, no unions, traditional women

48
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Napoleon becomes Emperor

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Jacques-Louis David, has to ensure people don’t think of him as another king

49
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Battle of Trafalgar

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Oct. 1805-British victory, French and Spanish defeat, Lord Horatio Nelson, Naval battle

50
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Prime Minister of Britain

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William Pitt the Younger

51
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Peace of Amiens

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1803-Britain recognized French Republic, end 2nd coalition

52
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Napoleon’s victories in Central Europe

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Prussia divided, defeat Austria at Battle of Ulm, Battle of Austerlitz (French v. Austria and Russia)

53
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The Confederation of the Rhine

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No more HRE

54
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Treaty of Tilsit

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Russia Tsar Alexander I-Prussia loses >50% of their land. Russia is named a secret ally

55
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Continental System

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Milan Decree 1807-Blocks trade w/ Britain, caused more damage to Europe than Britain

56
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100 Days

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Napoleon comes back from Elba but defeated at Waterloo

57
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Napoleon’s wives

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Josephine de Beauharnais, Maria Louisa

58
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Rulers of conquered land

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Put family in charge of countries

59
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Prussia’s response to Napoloen

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“German Nationalism” administrative, social, military reform

60
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Peninsular Campaign

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1807-1810-Portugal-Joseph Bonaparte king of Spain-Sir Arthur Wellesley-drained resources

61
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Russian Campaign

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Russia withdraws from Continental System, “Scorched Earth” 600,000–> <100,000 troops

62
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Battle of Nations

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Oct. 1813- Third Coalition victory, Treaty of Fontainbleau-Forced Napoleon to step down

63
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Congress of Vienna

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Sept. 1814-Nov. 1815-Quadruple Alliance to prevent France from conquering Europe again

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Battle of Waterloo

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June 18 1815-French loss, Napoleon sent to St. Helena

65
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Treaty of Chaumont

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Called for Napoleon to give up all conquests, revert pre-revolutionary borders in exchange for cease-fire. Napoleon rejects it

66
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Netherlands and other territorial adjustments

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More fair created Netherlands as buffer states to France

67
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Romantic Movement

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Sturm und Drag, revive Christianity, art, literature, architecture etc. of middle ages, emotion

68
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Art, literature, and architecture of Romantics

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Middle Ages-more imagination and emotion

69
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Rousseau’s romantic literature

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Emile-enlightened was bad, separate spheres for genders, children raised with max freedom

70
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Immanual Kant’s contributions to Romanticism

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Reason and emotion together, Critique of Pure Reason and Practical Reason-Phenomenal (sensory) Noumenal (mind), Categorical Imperative

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English Romantic writers

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Coleridge-Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wordsworth-Ode on Intimations on Immortality
Lord Byron-Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan

72
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German Romantic Writers

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Tieck-William Lovell
Schlegel-Lucinde
Goethe-Sorrows of the Young Werther, Faust

73
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Facts/Characteristics of Romantic Art

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Artists-Constable (Salisbury Cathedral in Meadows, Hay Wain), William Turner (Rain, Steam, Speed) Caspar David Friedrich (The Polar Sea, the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog)

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Romantic/Neo-Gothic architecture

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British Houses of Parliament, Neuschwarstien Castle

75
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Methodism

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Revolt against deism and rationalism of Church of England by John Wesley

76
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The Genuis of Christianity

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Viscount Francois Rene de Cateaubriand that disproves of the religious policy of revolution and anticlericalism of Enlightenment. “Bible of Romanticism”

77
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Johann Herder

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“On the Knowing and Feelings of the Human Soul-rejects mechanical explanation of nature. Humans and societies develop organically. Urge preservation of distinctive German songs and sayings (Grimm)