Chapters 22-25 Flashcards
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
Balance of power that existed in Europe from the end if the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the outbreak of World War I
Congress of Vienna
Meeting of quadruple alliance - Russia, Prussia, Austria, GB - and restoration France to fashion a general peace settlement that began after the defeat of napoleon’s France in 1814
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Conservatism
View that valued tradition and maintained status quo
Liberalism
View that valued individual freedom and embraced social change
Two main tenets: individualism and liberty
Nationalism
View that glorified people united against absolutism and foreign rule
Utilitarianism
View that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority
Socialism
View that desired a more fair economic restructuring of society
Karl Marx
Socialist - published The Communist Manifesto aka bible of socialism
Romanticism
Artistic ideal that valued emotion, spontaneity, and creative freedom
Reform Act of 1832
Increased male suffrage
Chartists movement
First mass movement driven by the working class
Themes of 1830 revolutions
Spread of ideas of freedom and equality - romantic revolutions led to establishment of constitutional monarchies
Themes of 1848 revolutions
Spread of ideas of democracy, liberalism, nationalism, socialism
French political history
Monarchy (bourbons) –> 1st republic –> 1st empire –> bourbons –> house of Orleans –> 2nd republic –> 2nd empire –> 3rd republic –>
Labor aristocracy
Best workers of the working class