Ap Flashcards

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 Repealed in 1846.	18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