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Conservative Diplomacy and Reform
Question | Answer |
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Efforts by the great powers to preserve the balance of power and conservative order established at Vienna | Concert of Europe |
Agreement between Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia to maintain the alliance that had defeated Napoleon and meet periodically to discuss issues of mutual concern | Quadruple Alliance |
Proposal by Tsar Alexander I that Russia, Prussia, and Austria would pledge to observe Christian principles in both domestic and international affairs | Holy Alliance |
meeting that decided that France should be freed of occupation and join the Quadruple Alliance | Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle |
Meeting to discuss revolutions in Spain ans assert that Russia, Prussia, and Austria asserted their right to intervene in other countries to oppose revolutions, ticking off British | Congress of Troppau |
Meeting that gave France support to intervene in Spain; Britain withdrew from the Quintuple Alliance | Congress of Verona |
Country that fought against Turkish rule starting in 1821; the Turks crushed the revolt in 1825; western countries forced Ottoman Empire to recognize its independence | Greece |
Tory prime minister from 1812-1827 who headed a reactionary cabinet that originally opposed reform | Lord Liverpool |
British troops fired on a large crowd that had gathered in Manchester to hear speeches on parliamentary reform and repeal of the Corn Laws | Peterloo Massacre |
Laws passed following the Peterloo Massacre to restrict freedoms of sppech and assembly and expanding police power and harsh punishment | The Six Acts |
British leader who reformed the criminal code and organized the London police | Robert Peel |
17th century law that barred Nonconformists from public office that was repealed in 1828 | Test Act |
Extension of the right to vote and hold public office to property owning Catholics | Catholic Emancipation |
The practice of towns with very small populations having representation in Parliament | Rotten boroughs |
The practice of a wealth noble being able to choose a member of parliament | Pocket boroughs |
Whig prime minister who pushed through a parliamentary reform bill | Lord Grey |
Law that got rid of 56 rotten and pocket boroughs and spread the seats to underrepresented areas; extended the right to vote to middle class men | Reform Bill of 1832 |
Led the movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire | William Wilberforce |
Law that placed restrictions on child labor in the textile industry | Factory Act of 1833 |
Laws that placed tariff on wheat and other grains, provided great landowners with a protected market for their crops | Corn Laws |