Unit 6 Flashcards
Nationalism
Based on the concept that a nation is composed of people bounded together by language, customs, culture and history
Nationlism’s conflict with the Congress of Viennea
Protesting multinational states (Russia and Austria). Ethnicity over monarchy and challenged domestic/interracial order
Regions under Nationalistic pressure
Ireland, Germany and Italy
Liberals
Anything that challenged political, social or religious values.
Political Goals of Liberals
Legal equality, religious toleration and freedom of the press
Origin of Liberal ideas
The writers of the Enlightenment and The Rights of Man and Citizen
Economic goals of Liberal’s
Abolish gov. regulated trade
Pillars of conservatism
Monarchy, Aristocracy and the church
Klemens von Metternich
Enemy of the Burschenshaffen
Burschenshaffen
University students who often were anti-sematic
Peterloo Massacre
Radical Reform Movement in which royal troops kill and injure citizens.
The Six Acts
Dec. 1819 Took away lots of civil rights and cause the Cato Street Conspiracy
Cato Street Conspiracy
Aurther Thistewood planned to blow up the British Cabinet.
Concert of Europe
Prevented a country from taking major action without informing the others
Ferdinand VII
Disolved “cortes” or parliament and than was rebelled upon.
Treaty of London 1827
Give the Greeks independence from the Turks
George Canning
Recognized Spanish Colonies as independent and used them for trade/commerce
Mediterranean Revolts
Greece, Ottoman empire and the Serbians
Independance movements in Latin America
Haiti, Brazil, Argentina and Venezula
Toussaint’L Overture
Led a slave rebellion and became Gov. Gen. for life and abolishes slavery.
Hatian Slave Rebellion
1791 - violent; only due to help from the French did the Slaves win
Tsar Alex I
Repressive towards Liberalism and Nationalism
What exposed the backwards ways of Russia
The French Revolution
Tsar Alex I’s successor
Nicholas I
Tsar Nicholas I on serfdom
He believed that if he abolished serfdom it would infringe on the nobel’s rights
Tsar Nicholas I’s Slogan
“Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationalism”
Decembrist Revolt
First rebellion in modern Russian History
Russian infringement on other countries
Polish diet imposed regularly