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Ch. 20 and Romanticism Study Guide Flashcards

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649773847Lord ByronWrote Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan; a rebel romanticist not liked in his native country England but supported in other countries
649773848William BlakeRomantic English poet and painter; wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience
649773849Samuel ColeridgeRomantic poet who believed that poetry was the highest of human acts, was the master of Gothic poems, and wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner
649773850William WordsworthWrote Ode on Intimations of Immortality and suffered a loss of poetic vision
649773851Friedrich SchlegelWrote Lucinde which attacked prejudice against women and was involved in modern social issues
649773852Johann GoetheBoth positive and negative toward Romantic period in his writings, wrote Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther
649773853John WesleyLeader of Methodist movement and Methodism, and which stressed inward heartfelt religion and Christian perfection
649773854Johann HerderGerman nationalist who rejected French cultural dominance in German, and didn't agree with mechanical explanation of nature from Enlightenment
649773855Brothers GrimmFollowers of Herder who wrote a famous collection of fairy tales
649773856Georg HegelGerman philosopher of the Romantic period who believed ideas develop in an evolution that involves conflict where the thesis and antithesis conflict, and a synthesis forms from the clash
649782906Prince MetternichRuler of Austria who epitomized conservatism, and had to suppress the nationalism growing in the German territories he ruled
656752262George CanningNew foreign minister of Britain who went to Congress in Verona and didn't support joint action dealing with Spain and was more interested in British commerce and trade
656752263Daniel O-ConnellLead Irish nationalists who organized the Catholic ASsociation to agitate for Catholic emancipation
656752264Frederick William IIIPrussian king who promised a form of constitutional government during Napoleon's reign, but soon revoked on the promise and re-established the old bonds liking monarchy, army, and landholders in Prussia
656752265Nicholas ISuccessor of Alexander I who suppressed the Decembrist Revolt and didn't abolish serfdom, but did reform a codification of Russian law
656752266Charles XLouis XVIII's brother and successor whose ultra-royalist attempts at seizing power caused a revolution in France that ended the Bourbon dynasty in France
656752268Louis XVIIIKing of France after Napoleon who ruled following his self-written Charter and imposed a rule that wore away at constitutionalism and liberal politics
656752270Court of ArtoisLouis XVIII's brother before he became Charles X
656752272CastlereaghBritish foreign minister who rejected the idea of the Quadruple Alliance upholding the borders of existing governments and claimed the QA was only there to prevent French aggression; later committed suicide
656752274Alexander ITsar of Russia who at first attempted to adjust to Enlightenment ideals but soon turned away from reform and repressed both liberalism and nationalism in Russia
656767421LiberalismPolitical activity that sought to establish a political framework of legal equality, religious toleration, freedom of the press, and limited arbitrary government power
656767422NationalismPolitical outlook based on the concept that a nation is composed of people who are joined together by the bonds of a common language and culture, and because of these bonds, should be ministered by the same government
656767423Ethnic groupA group of people sharing common customs, culture, language, and history
656767424CharterLouis XVIII's self written constitution that made for a monarchy and a bicameral legislature, and promised to uphold most of the rights of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, mainly those dealing with property
657026123Quadruple AllianceAlliance between European powers that Alexander thought should uphold the borders and the existing governments, but Castlereagh thought was intended only to stop French aggression
657026124Concert of EuropeArrangement between European powers that involved informal consultations that prevented one power from taking a major action in international affairs without obtaining assent
657026125The Eastern QuestionWhat should the European powers do about the Ottoman inability to assure political and administrative stability in its possessions in and around the Middle East?
657033861Organic StatuteIssued by Nicholas I after the revolt in Poland, it stated that Poland was an integral part of the Russian Empire
657033862Decembrist RevoltThe revolt where troops would not swear loyalty to Nicholas I; the first rebellion in modern Russian history whose instigators had specific political goals
657039457Four OrdinancesIssued by Charles X who was attempting to use them for a royal coup d'etat; they limited the freedoms of anyone except the nobility and the monarchy

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