Stufflet Unit 10 Eur Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Restoration Europe | time after the defeat of Napoleon when conservatives restored many of the monarchies that were overthrown during the French Revolutionary period (1789-1815) |
Congress of Vienna | established the conservative European diplomatic system that would dominate the Restoration period (1815-1848) |
balance of power | International equilibrium of political and military power that would discourage future aggression |
German Confederation | weak association of German states dominated by Prussia and Austria |
Prince Klemens von Metternich | Austrian Foreign Minister whose Congress system dominated the period from 1815-1850 |
Conservatism | political ideology that believes in maintaining status quo; it dominated the period 1815-1850 |
Holy Alliance | agreement between Prussian, Austria, and Russia that vowed to crush forces of change wherever they popped up |
Karlsbad Decrees | laws that instituted university censorship in German Confederation |
Troppau Conference | held in response to revolutions in Spain and Kingdom of Two Sicilies; declared intervention by conservative powers |
liberalism | Political ideology that believed in ideas of the EARLY French Revolution |
laissez faire | economic idea that government should interfere in the economy minimally |
nationalism | Idea that a group has its own identity that unites it and that should result in autonomy |
cultural nationalism | nationalism based on language, religion, history, or "race" |
civic nationalism | nationalism based on a set of common ideas |
Utopian socialism | 19th century movement that sought to overcome income inequality by appealing to middle class and state to help poor |
Marxian socialism | 19th century movement that sought to overcome income inequality by fomenting revolution of poor against middle class and state |
Count Henri de Saint Simon | believed “parasites” (court, aristocracy) should give way to “doers” (engineers, scientists)and that all institutions should aim to help poor |
Karl Marx | German intellectual who believed a revolution of the proletariat would overthrow exploitation by bourgeois middle class |
The Communist Manifesto | outlined dialectical materialism and called on workers of the world to unite against the middle class; published in 1848 |
bourgeoisie | term for wealthy middle class |
proletariat | term for working class |
Romanticism | 19th century cultural revolt against classicism and the Enlightenment |
sick man of Europe | term to describe Ottoman Empire in 19th century |
Lord Byron | English Romantic poet who died in war for Greek independence |
Corn Laws | British laws that outlawed importation of foreign grain |
Battle of Peterloo | Massive protests by urban laborers against Corn Laws; resulted in numerous deaths |
Reform Bill of 1832 | British law that increased male suffrage and made House of Commons more powerful |
Chartist Movement | Demanded universal suffrage for males (1839, 1842, 1848) |
Louis XVIII | Bourbon monarch restored to French throne in 1815; granted liberal constitutional charter |
Charles X | Bourbon monarch from 1824-1830; conservative; overthrown in 1830 Revolution |
Louis Philippe | known as "Citizen King"; reigned from 1830 to 1848 |
Louis Napoleon | elected French president in 1848; later became Emperor Napoleon III |
Franz Joseph | placed on Austrian throne after failed Revolution of 1848 in Vienna; ruled Austria from 1848 to 1916 |
Frederick William IV | Prussian king during Revolution of 1848; turned down German throne because he would not accept a "crown from the gutter" |
Frankfurt Assembly | liberal body that tried to write new constitution for a united Germany in 1848; offered throne of united Germany to Prussian king, but he turned it down |
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