Question | Answer |
Latin America revolts | -Bolívar and San Martin, both liberators, ran into each other in Lima, Peru, where they took control, and Bolívar dominated liberation.
-To gain trade partners, Britain wanted to defend S America from being controlled and asked the USA for a joint effort.
-USA responded with Monroe Doctrine |
Monroe Doctrine | -USA claimed that if anyone tried to take control of a central/south american country, they would go to war against them.
-Britain Navy helped guarantee independence |
Greek Revolt | -First lasting, successful revolt in Europe.
-Greeks were assisted by Russia, France, and Britain despite the Principle of Intervention |
Britain's Tories and Whigs | -Two leading political parties in Britain, mostly led by landed aristocracy.
-Whigs also supported by industrial middle class
-Torries were dominant |
Corn Laws and the Peterloo Massacre | -Corn Law: high tariff on foreign grain by Tories that received opposition because $ & working conditions
-Peterloo Massacre: Calvary attack on a protest meeting, 11 killed. Lead to banning of protest meetings and pamphlets |
Louis XVIII and Charles X | -Louis: Slightly liberal, first bourbon after french rev, continued some Napoleonic principles
-Charles: Conservative, tried to regain power lost during during french rev and nap era, sacrificed in many areas to please the people. |
Carbonari | -revolutionary nationalists in Italian peninsula
-Conspired against the reactionary, anti-nationalist governments |
Germanic Confederation | -Confederation of 38 Germanic states Established by Vienna, including Austria and Prussia, had little structure
-Tool used by Metternich to have his voice heard, and prevent Nationalism. |
Burschenschaften | -Groups of students in the German states, looking for a united Germany
-were closed by Metternich's Karlsbad in response to the assassination of a conservative playwright |
the Decembrist Revolt | -A Russian revolt occurring in the confusion of leadership after the death of tsar, Alexander I.
-Alexander's brother Constantine had silently given power to his brother Nicholas, but others believed Nicholas was stealing the throne and revolted |