Ch.23: Key Terms Flashcards
a meeting of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Great Britain to fashion a peace settlement having defeated France. They agreed to the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. The first peace of Paris gave to France the boundaries it possessed in 1792, which are larger than those of 1789, and France did not have to pay any war reparations. When the four allies of the quadruple alliance met together, assisted in a minor way by a host of delegates from the smaller European states, they also agreed to raise a number of formidable barriers against renewed French aggression. The low countries – Belgium and Holland – were united under an enlarge Dutch monarchy capable of opposing France more effectively. Prussia received considerably more territory on Franc’s eastern border so as to stand as the “sentinel on the Rhine” against France.
Congress of Vienna
A term that historian Eric Hobsbawn used for the economic and political changes that tended to fuse, reinforcing each other.
Dual Revolution
an alliance formed by Austria, Russia and Prussia in September of 1815 that became a symbol of the repression of liberal and revolutionary movements all over Europe. proposed by Alexander I
Holly Alliance
issued by Metternich in 1819, these decrees required the 38 German member states to root out subversive idea in their universities and newspapers. it also established a permanent committee with spies and informers to investigate and punish any liberal or radical organizations.
Carlsbad Decree
the principle ideas of which are equality and liberty, demanded representative government and equality before the law as well as individual freedoms such as freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom from arbitrary arrest.
Liberty and Equality. First realized successfully in the American Revolution and then achieved in the French Revolution, this policing and social philosophy continued to pose a radical challenge to revived conservatism.
Liberalism
economic liberalism that believes in unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy.
Laissez Faire
the idea that each people had its own genius and its own cultural unity this cultural unity was self-evident, manifesting itself especially in a common language, history and territory. was a second radical idea in the years after 1815-an idea destined to have an enormous influence in the modern world. had its origins in the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars.
Nationalism
a backlash against the emergence of individualism and fragmentation of society it was a move towards cooperation and a sense of community, the key ideas were panning, greater economic equality and state regulation of property. the new radical doctrine after 1815 that began in France.
Socialism
the court, the aristocracy, lawyers and church men (according to Count Henri de Saint-Simon the key to progress was social organization and this required parasites to give way to doers).
Parasites
the leading scientists, engineers and industrialists (according to Count Henri de Saint-Simon the doers would plan the economy and guide it forward by undertaking public works projects and establishment investment banks).
Doers
the middle class.
Bourgeoisie
The modern working class
Proletariat
a movement that was revolting against classicism and the Enlightenment, it was characterized by a belief in emotional exuberance, unrestrained imagination, and spontaneity in both art and personal life.
Romanticism
Storm and Stress, German early Romantics of the 1770s and 1780s who lived lives of tremendous emotional intensity suicides, duels, madness and strange illnesses were common.
Sturm und Drang
