Congress Of vienna/ Concert of Europe Flashcards
Austria
Klemens Von Metternich
Repress nationalism
Collective security
Congress of Vienna 1814-15
Legitimacy: monarchs restored to nations
Compensation: nations gained territory for lost parts
Balance of Power: creation of buffer states
France
Talleyrand
Wanted to be included to the great powers with legitimacy
GB
Castlereagh
Reset abolish balance of power
Prus
Prince Von Herdenberg
Least influential
Wanted Saxony
Rus
Alex I
Wanted ctrl of Poland
Quintuple alliance
GB, Aud, Prus, Rus, France after 1818
Concert of Europe
Powers meet periodically to discuss issues of mutual concern
Congress of Aix la Chapelle 1818
Army of occupation removed in Fr
Congress of Troppou 1820
Aus, Prus, and Rus suppressed Italian revolt
Congress of Verina 1822
Instability in Spain: Fr subdued revolts
Latin American revolts against Spanish ctrl
Monroe doctrine 1823
Forbade Europe to have colonial ventures in US Sphere of Influence
Corn laws 1815
GB
Protect GB grain from competition, but harmed consumers with high prices
Repealed in 1846
Conservatism
Preserve best, refrain from radical changes
Change through adaption
Liberalism
Laissezfaire
Favored Locke’s Social Contract
Relig toleration
Individual rights
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Actions are right if they benefit the majority
Robert Owen
Social economic planning, capitalism unequal.
Utopian socialism
John Stuart Mill
Support woman’s rights
Socialist
Mazzini
Italian nationalism
Young Italy 1831
Charles X (1824-30)
Fr restored monarch
Reestablished Cath clergy power
Aristocratic power
Abdicated
Four ordinances 1830
Charles X
Curtailed voting rights
Censor press
Louis Philippe (1830-48)
Follow constitution of 1814
Revolutions of 1830-31
Fr revolt against Chales X
Belgians declare independence for neutrality
Polish revolts against Rus; crushed by Nick I
Reform Act of 1832
GB
Increased # of males that can vote, maintained property req.
Mines act 1833
GB
Banned children and women from mines
Ten Hours Act 1833
Limit hours in textile mills
Revolutions of 1848 (causes)
- liberals wanted change for constit/representative govt
- Ignored ethnic minorities mad at 1815 Vienna Settlement
- Working class suffered
France
Upset at slow speed of reform, 1848, Paris revolts. Louis Philippe (abdicate) Louis Blanc (socialist) Louis Napoleon (Pres of 2nd Republic)
“June days” 1848
class violence between republicans and army
Louis Blanc
Set up national workshops
Prussia
Libs revolt in Berlin against selfish monarch
Frederick William IV
Conservative1850 constitution
Denied Frankfurt Crown for United Germany (crown of the gutter)
Austria
Workers and students rebel in Vienna
Metternich abdicates
Franz Joseph I succeeds
Franz Joseph I
Abolished serfdom
1849 constitution
Budapest
Magyars get independence from Austria
Italy
Revolt against Austria
Mazzini declares Roman Republic
Napoleon restores Pope Pius IX in Rome
Charles Albert
Piedmont Sard King
Declares war on Aus
