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Term | Definition |
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Conservatism | ideology that said privileges and traditions should be maintained |
Edmund Burke | wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France; stated revolution was causing too much change too quickly |
Klemens von Metternich | conservative statesman who created Concert of Europe; suppressed forces of change |
Concert of Europe | conservative system established at the Congress of Vienna |
Holy Alliance | agreement in which Austria, Prussia, and Russia agreed to crush liberalism and nationalism |
Karlsbad Decrees | laws implementing censorship on Austrian university campuses |
sick man of Europe | term for crumbling Ottoman Empire |
July Revolution | French revolution that installed liberal King Louis Philippe |
Revolutions of 1848 | French revolution that led to the breakdown of the Concert of Europe |
Louis Napoleon | he established the French Second Empire |
Alexander II | Russian leader who emancipated serfs in 1861 |
Sergei Witte | oversaw Russian railroad expansion and tariffs to protect industry |
Liberalism | Political ideology that believed in constitutions that limited the power of the ruler |
John Stuart Mill | political philosopher who was liberal; believed in individual freedoms, as long as they didn't harm others |
Great Reform Bill | British law that expanded suffrage, but only to certain people |
Chartism | Movement that sought democracy through universal male suffrage |
Socialism | seeks to overcome income inequality by re-distributing wealth in an industrial society |
Charles Fourier | Utopian socialist that sought to create communities where property was shared |
Karl Marx | socialist that sought to foment revolution of proletariat against bourgeoisie and state |
proletariat | working class |
bourgeoisie | middle class |
Anarchism | asserts that all forms of government are unnecessary and oppressive |
Mikhail Bakunin | leading anarchist |