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Napoleon & 19th Century Ideologies Flashcards

Pgs. 359 - 364 (gray book) and pgs. 557 - 561 (white book) as well as pg. 563 and pgs. 587-588 in white book.
Study guide numbers are 38, 40, 42, 83, 110, 111

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306541195Napoleon BonaparteA young army officer who gained control of France after successfully leading his army against Austria. He was invited to join the five person directory that governed France after the death of Robespierre. He crowned himself emperor later, and stabilized the country.0
306541196Napoleonic CodeNapoleon's code that confirmed religious freedom, and guaranteed equal rights for men, though not for women. It also reduced the National Assembly to a rubber stamp.1
306541197Battle of WaterlooBritish led the Alliance against Napoleon that captured Paris in 1814, and defeated him in 1815. Napoleon was banish to an island in the Mediterranean sea, before he died.2
306541198Congress of ViennaWhere the major European powers met to decide what to do with France once Napoleon was exiled. Decisions made there put in place a balance of power in Europe; it stabilized the continent for more than fifty years.3
306541199Balance of PowerA state Europe was in, put in place by the congress of Vienna, that stabilized the continent for more than 50 years. France lost most of its new territories, and the countries around it were made stronger with a tactic called, "the encirclement of France."4
306541200Conservativeswanted to roll back to before the French revolution, to restore the monarchies in all countries, Including France. They prevailed at the conquest of Vienna.5
306541201Liberalsinterested in checking the power of monarchs and interesting parliamentary authority. They supported the original goals of the French revolution, including a government defined by Constitutional law and the guarantee of personal freedoms of religion, press, and assembly6
306541202Radicalsemphasized equality more than liberty, with the most advocating wider voting rights and more direct government participation for ordinary people. Many promoted social reforms to help the poor gain some measure of economic security.7
306541203Count Camillo de CaviourCount of an italian state, that after gaining liberal support, formed an alliance with France that allowed him to Challenge Austrian control of Italisan states in 1858.8
306541204Otto Von BismarckInstigated a series of wars that expanded Prussian power in Germany. Used growing nationalist trends to consolidate people who had not been politically united before.9
306541205Laissez faireFrench for, "Let them do". The most celebrated exponent of this was Adam Smith, a Scottish economist, who said that if individuals were allowed to seek personal gain, the effect, as though guided by an "invisible hand" would be to increase the general welfare.10
306541206PositivismCount of Saint Simon and Auguste Comte argued that scientific method could solve social as well as technical problems. Recommended that the poor, guided by scientists and artists, form workers communities under the protection of benevolent business leaders.11
306541207Utopian SocietyAn "ideal society" thought up by Charles Fourier, where groups of workers lived in dormitories and worked together on land an in workshops, where treats were provided, to soften the hardships of labor. Workers benefitted little from these ideas, and as a form of protest to this concept, they changed jobs often, and performed poor work when no one was looking.12

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