Unit 6 (ch. 20-21) Flashcards
Nationalisms conflict with principles of the congress of Vienna
Didn’t like
• Legitimacy: hieratory monarch (bourbon)
• multi nationalism: not in same ethnicity or state
• popular sovereignty: ppl. have the power
Characteristics of nationalism
- Most important force/ ideology of 19th c.
* shared culture identity: language, religion, gov., ethnicity, geography, leader, history, policy
Regions of 19th c. liberals
- Britain: Irish independence
- Austria: German unification
- Italy: Italian unification
- Russia: Polish independence
- E. Europe:
- S.E Europe: Balkan independence
Definition of liberals according to conservative
• anything/ anyone oppose of conservative power
- traditional monarchy, church, aristocrats, govern.
Political goals of 19th century liberals
- achieve constitutional gov. (Equality, religious toleration)
- Britain and France (keep civic rights and expand electorate)
- German and Austria (conservative resistance, unify Germany)
19th c. life falls and the origins of their ideas
- Age of reasoning
* Age of Enlightenment
Economic goals of 19th c. liberals
Lasses faire:
• favored economic system, not mercantilism
• separate from working class
•remove internal trade, gill system/labor union
• encourage talent instead of property of bloodline
• agricultural innovation
Major pillars of 19th c. conservative
- Throne: afraid of representatives gov.
- land; nobilities: afraid of lost privileges, old regime, enlightenment
- alter; church: fear loss of power, social status, dechristianization
Klemens von Metternich
• Austrian Empire
• most influential conservative authority; driving force of congress of Vienna
• Habsburg empire (hotspot for liberal and nationalism)
Dynastic integrity:
-multicultural wanted to unite as nation
-wanted suppress liberalism and nationalism, prevent constitutionalism
Burschenschaftens
• Fraternity group • clubs wanted to achieve liberal, national change • wanted unification of Germany Carlsbad decreed: - dissolve Burschenschaftens - attacked groups that sought reform
Spa field riot
- dec. 1816
- London
- illegal to gather
- reaction to lord Liverpool’s ministery
- suspension of habious corpus (due process of law)
Peterloo Massacre
- 1819
- in Manchester
- 11 protestors died
- local vs. Royals
- rise up against Cohesive Act (suspension of habious corpus)
- led to creation of 6 Acts
Six Acts
By lord Liverpool
• forbid unauthorized meeting
• rise fines for suspicious libels (sued for bad talking)
• speedy trial (prevent time for legal representation)
• increase price of newspaper article
• prohibited armed groups
• allowed non warranted house search
Louis XVIII as monarch
• constitutional monarchy Charter: -chamber of peers and chamber of disputes • reaffirm Rights of Men's • Catholicism is official religion • became conservative after Charles X • bourbon
Major powers of congress of Vienna
Russia, Prussia, Austria, Britain
Concert of Europe
- resolve international issue
- prevent war in France
- congress system (congress of aix Le chapel)
- greatest achievement of congress of Vienna
Ferdinand VII’s rule after the fall of Napoleon
• ruled in Spain
• originally constitutional gov., change mind
• dissolve Cortès
• order Spanish troops to put down Latin America; revolt by not going; agreed to rule constitutionally again
• Congress of Troppau
-Protocol of Troppau: declared that stable governments could intervene militarily if in danger of liberal revolution
Demand of treaty of London,1827
• Turkish recognition of Greek independence
Greece, England, France
Major accomplishments of George Canning
- Pulled Britain out of continental affairs
- focused in Western Hemisphere
- prime minister
Revolts in Mediterranean Europe
- Greek revolution of 1821
* Serbian independence
Spark of independence movements throughout Latin America
- wars of French Revolution
* wars of Napoleon
Toussaint L’ Overture impact on Latin American independence
- Governor General in Haiti
- leader of Italian slave rebellion
- abolished slavery in Haiti
Tsar Alexander I and political reforms
suppress liberal and nationalism
Events that exposed the backwardness of Russia to its soldiers
- wars of Napoleon
* Russia occupy parts of France
Tsar Alexander’s successor
Nicolas
Northern and southern society
- Northern: moderate, constitutional, abolished serfdom, preserve privileges of boyars
- Southern: radical, representative gov, abolished serfdom, liberal
Nicolas I view on serfdom
It was an evil but not a right time to go away
Slogan of Tzar Nicholas I
Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationalism
Uniqueness/ significance of the Decembrist revolt
- 1st real Russian revolution with specific reform in mind
- wanted constitutional monarchy
- 60 killed
- wanted Constitution to limit tsar power
Russian Tsar and infringements upon other countries
- Govern Poland as a puppet state
* Poland is colony of Russia
Four ordinances
- passed by Charles X
- aimed at liberal reform
- dissolve chamber of disputes: cause for new elections
- for absolutism
- restricted freedom of press
- limited franchises of the wealthy