143737596 | Congress of Vienna | A meeting between Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain to fashion a general peace settlement. | |
143737597 | First Peace of Paris | Gave France the boundaries it possessed in 1792, which were larger than those of 1789, and France did not have to pay any war reparations. | |
143737598 | Quadruple Alliance | Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain | |
143737599 | Prussia | The "Sentinel on the Rhine," who received a lot of territory on France's easter border. | |
143737600 | Klemens von Metternich | Foreign Minister of Austria | |
143737601 | Robert Castlereagh | Foreign Minister of Great Britain | |
143737602 | Charles Talleyrand | Foreign Minister of France | |
143737603 | Balance of Power | An international equilibrium of political and military forces that would discourage eaggression by any combination of states. | |
143737604 | The Great Powers | Austria, Britain, Prussia, Russia, and France. | |
143737605 | Restoration of Poland | An issue that almost led to renewed war in 1815 | |
143737606 | Second Peace of Paris | Restored Louis XVIII to this throne, France lost a little territory, had to pay an indemnity of 700 million francs, and had to support a large army of occupation for five years. | |
143737607 | Congress System | Quadruple Alliance met to discuss problems and ways to keep BOP in Europe | |
143737608 | Holy Alliance | This was the alliance between Austria Prussia and Russia on the crusade against the ideas and politics of the dual revolution. A symbol of the repression of liberal and revolutionary movements all over Europe. | |
143737609 | Dual Revolution | Fusion of economic and political changes in Europe | |
143737610 | Troppau Conference | This was the conference at which the Troppau Protocol was signed in which any country that underwent a revolution was no longer part of the European Alliance | |
143737611 | Liberal Political Change | Metternich battled... | |
143737612 | Carlsbad Decrees | Issued by Metternich, required 39 independent German states, including Prussia and Austria, to root out subversive ideas. (censorship) Also established permanent comittee with spies to punish any liberal or radical organization. | |
143963754 | Saint-Simon | (1760-1825) Early French socialist who advocated a form of state-technocratic socialism, an arrangement where industrialists would lead society and found a national community based upon cooperation and technological progress, which would be capable of eliminating poverty of the lower classes. | |
143963755 | Early French Socialists | They proposed a system of greater economic equality planned by the government | |
143963757 | Pierre Joseph Proudhon | Wrote, "What is Property?" and believed profit was stolen from the worker. Often considered an anarchist. | |
143963758 | Charles Fourier | Proposed a planned economy and socialist communities. Total emancipation of women. | |
143963759 | Christian Socialism | Believed the evils of industrialism would be ended by following Christian principles. | |
143963760 | Robert Owen | Turned a mill in New Lanark, Scotland into a model socialist community. Tried it in New Harmony, Indiana, failed. | |
143963761 | The Communist Manifesto | Bible of Communism | |
143963762 | Dialectical Materialism | All human history has been determined by economic factors. Since the beginning of time there has been a class struggle between the rich and the poor. | |
143963763 | Surplus Value | The true value of a product is labor, and because the worker only receives a small portion of his just labor price, the difference was stolen from him by the capitalist. | |
143963764 | Violent Revolution | The increasing gap between the proletariat and bourgeoisie will be so great that the working classes will rise up and overthrow the elite bourgeoisie and create a dictatorship of the proletariat. | |
143963765 | Nationalism | Belief that nations have a right to have their own political institutions and that the interests of the nation are supreme. | |
143963766 | 19th Century Nationalists | Wanted to establish nation states based on self-determination. | |
144193179 | Rococo | Over the top, frilly, pinky art. | |
144193180 | Romanticism | A belief in emotional exuberance, unrestrained imagination, and spontaneity in both art and personal life. | |
144193181 | Sturm und Drang | Storm and Stress. Early German Romanitcs. | |
144193182 | Nature | The romantics were enchanted by... | |
144193183 | William Wordsworth | a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850) | |
144193184 | Walter Scott | This Scottish Romantic poet used history to write his poems | |
144193185 | Germaine de Stael | An exiled Franco-Swiss writer who urged the French to throw away their worn-out classical methods. Wrote On Germany. Praised Germany's spontaneity. | |
144193186 | Victor Hugo | Wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame. | |
144193187 | George Sand | Wrote Lelia, which described her quest for sexual and personal freedom. | |
144193188 | Eugene Delacroix | French romantic painter, master of dramatic colorful scenes that stirred the emotions. Greatest romantic painters. Fascinated with remote and exotic subjects. Masterpiece: Liberty Leading the People | |
144193189 | Jacques-Louis David | Virtual dictator of Continental Painting from 1800-20. Used traditional, neo-classical techniques. Death of Marat. Death of Socrates. | |
144193190 | Antoine-Jean Gros | Painted Napoleon at Arcole Bridge. | |
144193191 | Francisco Goya | Painted the Third of May, Family of Charles VI. | |
144193192 | Theodore Gericault | Painted The Raft of the Medusa. | |
144193193 | John Constable | Painted in celebration of the countryside, Flatford Mill, Lock at Dedham | |
144193194 | Caspar David Friedrich | Painted Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Polar Sea, and Cloister Cemetery in the Snow. | |
144193195 | J. M. W. Turner | Painted Rain, Steam, Speed. | |
144193196 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Wrote Frankenstein. | |
144193197 | Franz Liszt | Rock star pianist. | |
144193198 | Giuseppe Verdi | Italian opera composer. | |
144193199 | Piotor Illyitch Tchaikovsky | Swan Lake, The Nutcracker (hated it!), and Sleeping Beauty. | |
144193200 | Giacomo Puccini | La Boheme | |
144729954 | Alexander Ypsilanti | Greek patriot and general in Russian army-led revolt in 1821 | |
144729955 | Ottoman Turks | Greece was dominated by the... | |
144729956 | Armistice | Great Britain, France, and Russia directed Turkey to accept an... | |
144729957 | Corn Laws | These laws forbade the importation of foreign grain without the prices in England rising substantially. Benefited aristocracy. | |
144729958 | Peaceable Assembly and Habeas Corpus | In 1817 the Tory government responded to protests by urban laborers (who protested in response to the change in the Corn Laws) by suspending.. | |
144729959 | Six Acts | Passed by Parliament, placed controls on a heavily taxed press and praticially eliminated all mass meetings. | |
144729960 | Battle of Peterloo | A protest that was savagely broken up by the cavalry in response to the Six Acts. | |
144729961 | Reform Bill of 1832 | Legislation passed in Great Britain that extended the vote to most members of the middle class; failed to produce democracy in Britain. | |
144729962 | People's Charter of 1838 | Core demand for universal male suffrage | |
144729963 | Ireland Potato Famine | Caused Tory prime minister Robert Peel to join with the Whigs to repeal the Corn Laws for fear of famine in England. | |
144729964 | Ten Hours Act of 1847 | Limited labor of women and children in all industrial establishments to 10 hours per day in Britain. | |
144729965 | Total Douchebags. | The Irish landlords were... | |
144729966 | Went up. | Despite sever poverty the population in Ireland.. | |
144729967 | Great Famine | Result of the potato blight in Ireland in the 1840's | |
144729968 | Irish Nationalism | The Great Famine promoted... | |
145192955 | Constitutional Charter | The economic and social gains made by sections of the middle class and the peasantry in the French Revolution were fully protected, great intellectual and artistic freedom was permitted, and a parliament with upper and lower houses was created. | |
145192956 | Charles X | Reactionary French King. | |
145192957 | Algeria | The conquest of.....marked the rebirth of French colonial expansion. | |
145192958 | Louis Phillippe | Took Charles X's place and accepted the Charter of 1814. | |
145192959 | Reform Banquets | Meetings that technically were just friends meeting together for dinner but happened to discuss the topic of revolt. | |
145192960 | Louis Blanc | A Social Democrat who believed in the right to work. Believed in national workshops. | |
145192961 | June Days | These were the French workers' revolts in 1848 after the closure of the National Workshops | |
145192962 | Louis Cavaignac | Assumed dictatorial powers and crushed the revolt in France | |
145192963 | Louis Napoleon Bonaparte | Elected president of France following general election. Purged the govt of all radical officials. Disbanded the National Assembly and held new elections. Declared a 2nd French Empire. | |
145192964 | Franz Joseph | New Austrian Emperor | |
145192965 | Lajos Kossuth | Hungarian Revolutionary Leader | |
145192966 | Frankfurt Assembly | 1807-82; personified the romantic revolutionary nationalism. Attempted to unify Germany. | |
145192967 | Frederick WIlliam IV of Prussia | Ruler of Russia from 1840 to 1861 promised to grant Prussia a liberal constitution and to merge Prussia into a new national German state that was to be created. -His attempt to unite and rule Germany excluding Austria failed because of Austria's intervention into dividing Germany to being once again a German confederation. | |
145192968 | German Bund | 39 states out of the original 300, only Britain remained as a growing power-began their century of world leadership from 1814 to 1914 |
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