Congress of Vienna & Post Napoleonic Europe

Question 1

What were the 3 goals of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 1

• Redistributing territory
• Achieving a balance of power
• Prevents future revolution

Question 2

Who manages to get FRANCE a seat at the congress?

Answer 2

Talleyrand

Question 3

Which individual dominates the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 3

Metternich

Question 4

Who created the Holy Alliance?

Answer 4

• Tsar Alexander Ist

Question 5

Who joins the Holy Alliance?

Answer 5

• Russia
• Prussia
• Austria

Question 6

Who refuses to join the Holy Alliance?

Answer 6

Great Britain

Question 7

What were the successes of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 7

• It created a stable international system
• Avoided major world stage wars in the near future

Question 8

What were the failures of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 8

• Ignored growing nationalist and liberal sentiment
• Instead, reinstated monarchism

Question 9

Define Utopian Socialism

Answer 9

• The idealizational outlines for future socialist utopian societies

Question 10

Who was a big conveyor of Utopian Socialism?

Answer 10

• Henri de Saint-Simon

Question 11

Who built an enlightened factory in England?

Answer 11

Robert Owen

Question 12

Which 6 countries had revolutions in the 1820s?

Answer 12

• Italy
• Spain
• Portugal
• Russia
• Greece
• Germany

Question 13

What was Russia’s 1825 revolt?

Answer 13

The Decembrist Revolt

(Succession crisis for the Russian throne after Alexander Ist’ death)

Question 14

Who suppresses the Decembrist Revolt?

Answer 14

Tsar Nicolas Ist

Question 15

Who gains their Independence in 1821?

Answer 15

Greece

Question 16

Who brought the inquisition back to Spain?

Answer 16

Ferdinand VII

Question 17

What percentage of the Spanish population were clergy members?

Answer 17

30%

Question 18

Who do the Spanish bring back when Napoleon is gone?

Answer 18

Ferdinand VII

Question 19

What is the name for the Italian unification movement?

Answer 19

Risorgimento

Question 20

What Italian revolutionary group was the predecessor to the modern Mafia?

Answer 20

The Carbonari

Question 21

Why did the initial Italian independence push fail in the 1820s?

Answer 21

Too many internal squabbles

Question 22

What decrees reinstated an authoritarian despotic regime in Germany?

Answer 22

The Carlsbad Decrees

Question 23

Why were the Carlsbad Decrees initiated?

Answer 23

Because of a student led protest in Germany

Question 24

What did the Carlsbad Decrees do?

Answer 24

• Shut down free speech
• Install secret police

Question 25

True or False:

Louis 18th kept the condorcat.

Answer 25

TRUE

Question 26

What is France’s 1830 revolution known as?

Answer 26

The July Revolution

Question 27

What bourbon king causes the revolution of 1830?

Answer 27

Charles X

Question 28

What does Charles X do?

Answer 28

-Turn back the clock
- Makes sacrilege a criminal offence

Question 29

What does Charles try (unsuccessfully) to pass to take back all the rights gained by the French people in 1815?

Answer 29

The July Ordinances

Question 30

Who is the last French king?

Answer 30

Louis-Phillipe

Question 31

Who do the French people ask to be king after the 1830 revolution?

Answer 31

Louis-Phillipe

Question 32

What does Louis Phillipe call himself instead of king?

Answer 32

Citoyen Louis-Phillipe

Question 33

Who was the main winner of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 33

• Austria (they gain control of all of Italy and parts of Germany)

Question 34

Who were the secondary winners of the congress of Vienna?

Answer 34

• Russia (got poland)(creates Holy Alliance)
• Prussia (got Rhineland states and became a big power)
• British (get important colonial ports and colonies from the French)
• Netherlands (got a buffer zone in between France (Belgium) as well as the uniting of the Dutch Republic
• France! (they dont get out that bad after all)

Question 35

Who were the Losers of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 35

• Italy
• Poland
• German states
• Spain
• Napoleonic France