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Europe Face Revolt
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conservative | person who supported the monarchy |
| liberal | person who wanted to give more power to elected legislatures |
| radical | person who wanted to end the rule by kings and give full voting rights to all people |
| anarchism | belief that government is harmful and not needed |
| nationalism | belief that government is harmful not needed |
| nation-state | country with its own independent government |
| Balkans | region including all or part of present-day Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and former Yugoslavia |
| Louis-Napoleon | winner of the presidential election in France in 1848 |
| Alexander II | ruler of Russia who freed the serfs |
| Russificaton | policy of forcing Russian culture on ethnic groups in the Russian Empire |
| Camillo di Cavour | prime minister who unified northern Italy |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | leader of the Red Shirts who won control over parts of southern Italy |
| Junker | wealthy German landholders |
| Otto von Bismarck | leader who worked to expand Prussia |
| realpolitik | tough, practical politics |
| kaiser | emperor |