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The Congress of Vienna
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Congress of Vienna? | Political and Territorial questions were arising from NApolienic Wars and had to be settled to achive stability. |
| When did the Congress of Vienna begin? | Began when Napolean returned from Elba |
| Who made decisions in the congress of Vienna? | Prussia, Russia, Austria, Great Britian, and France. |
| Who made decisons for Austria? | Metternich |
| How many guiding principles were there for the congress of vienna? | There were three guiding principles. |
| what was the first guiding principle? | Countries that suffered most must be compensated. |
| How much were those countries to be compensated? | 700,000,000 Francs. |
| What was the second guiding principle? | Balance of Power in Europe. |
| How did they achive the balance of power? | By giving all countries equal land. |
| Whaat was the third guiding principle? | All decisions would follow the rule of legitimacy. This meant all former rulers would be restored to their thrones. |
| What was the quadruple Alliance? | Discussed intrests and maintain peace. |
| Who was involoved in the quadruple alliance? | Great Britian, Austria, Russia and Prussia |
| How often did they hld meetings? | Priodically to insure all powers were in agreement. |
| Holy Alliance was? | Wanted christian moral principles and sense of duty to guide monarchs. |
| Who was involved in rhe Holy Alliance? | The all European countries except for British,Turkish, and the Pope. |
| Concert of Europe was? | Internatrional gov. maintaining peace maintaing the staus quo or the changes the Congress of vienna put in place. |
| Who was involoved in the concert of Europe? | Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia. |
| What rights did the allied troops have over France? | the could only have 150,00 men, they could only stay for a period of five years, their goal was to protect the neighboring states |
| How were the boundaries of France affected by the Treaty of Paris? | they were restored to the way they were in 1790. |
| What was the purpose of the Treaty of Paris? | To ensure there was not another revoulution in France, and to balacne the powers over France. |
| Why did liberals and Metterinch not get along? | Metternich wanted absolute monarchy, liberals were for individual rights. Metternich surpressed revoulutions by censoring periodicals at schools, and prohibited reforms that conflicted with the absolute monarchy. |
| What were reactionaries? | extremists who opposed change, and wanted to turn the clock back to before major changes in Europe. |
| Was Metternich a conservative? | Yes, a reactionary. |
| What is nationalism? | shared common language, history and culture. |
| Whay was this a threat to The Congress of Vienna? | Because many wanted to return Itallian lands back to Italy for example, change their changes. |