8646547108 | Dual Revolution | Economic and political changes that tended to fuse and reinforce each other after 1815 | 0 | |
8646547109 | Congress of Vienna | restored a balance of power to Europe after Napoleon's reign | 1 | |
8646547110 | Balance of Power | distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong | 2 | |
8646547111 | Holy Alliance | League formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia | 3 | |
8646547112 | active intervention | To maintain all autocratic regimes whenever they were threatened | 4 | |
8646547113 | Carlsbad Decrees | 1819, it discouraged liberal teachings in southern Germany | 5 | |
8646547114 | Prince Klemens von Metternich | Austrian prince who strongly influenced policy decision-making at the Congress of Vienna | 6 | |
8646547115 | foreign minister | a government official who is in charge of a nation's foreign affairs | 7 | |
8646547116 | Diplomat | A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another. | 8 | |
8646547117 | Liberalism | A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity. | 9 | |
8646547118 | Adam Smith | Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism. | 10 | |
8646547119 | Laissez Faire | Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs | 11 | |
8646547120 | Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality | 12 | |
8646547121 | Socialism | the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all | 13 | |
8646547122 | Bourgeoisie | Middle class minority | 14 | |
8646547123 | Proletariat | Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production | 15 | |
8646547124 | Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason | 16 | |
8646547125 | Sturm and drang | Storm and Stress, movement begain in 1770s Germany. Stream of writers. It is romanticism. | 17 | |
8646547126 | Corn Laws | 1815 tariff on imported grain to protect domestic producers. Repealed in 1846. | 18 | |
8646547127 | Battle of Peterloo | Massive protests by urban laborers against Corn Laws; resulted in numerous deaths | 19 | |
8646547128 | Great Famine | Result of the potato blight in Ireland in the 1840's | 20 | |
8646547129 | Louis XVIII | Constitutional charter of 1814 a response to political pressures basically a liberal constitution | 21 | |
8646547130 | Charles X | He inherited the throne after Louis XVIII died. He tried to rule as absolute monarch. | 22 | |
8646547131 | Louis Napoleon | declared himself emperor after he was elected President by the people (nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) | 23 | |
8646547132 | Fredrick William | Also known as the great elector. He ruled Prussia and established absolutism there. | 24 |
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