Who was Klemens Von Metternich and what was the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe?
Metternich was an Austrian diplomat who witnessed the popular violence of the French Revolution, and was one of the people in the Congress of Vienna. That congress was a group of people with power who gathered together to restore order by insisting that Europe's dynastic rulers were the only legitimate political authority.The guiding principle of the peace was the balance of powers which basically said that no country could rise up and take over other countries.
Why was it that King Ferdinand's empire in Latin America, however, would not be restored?
When Napoleon had been defeated, local elites in the colonies who resented Spanish imperial control took advantage of the crown's weakness to push for independence.
Describe the Revolt that broke out in conservative Russia. What was it called? What were its causes?
In 1825, a group of army officers known as the Decembrists led an uprising to push the pace of reform. They did this because they believed that Russia could not live up to Alexander's promise to be the "liberator of Europe" (since he had died) without change in its social and political order.
Why were the Europeans more tolerant of the Greek and Serbian revolt against Ottoman rule?
The French and the British viewed the eastern Mediterranean as an important arena of commercial competition while Russians viewed their frontiers with the Ottoman Empire's Balkan holdings as a natural place to exert foreign influence.
Describe the events leading up to revolutions in France, Belgium, and Poland in 1830.
Louis XVIII was given the throne of France by the Congress of Vienna, which he soon succeeded his brother, Charles X. Under Charles's rule, he lost the favor of the people, and they rose up in revolution. In Belgium, the Congress of Vienna joined them to Holland to form a buffer against France. Belgium never agreed to this, and with the energy the energy from France's revolution in 1830 raised Belgian opposition.
Why was there no revolution in Great Britain?
The government was more tolerant to reform, and did so when the people demanded rather than waiting for the people to start a revolution.
Explain the process by which slavery only remained legal in the southern United States, Brazil, and Cuba. (Slavery was legal everywhere in the Atlantic world in 1770)
An abolitionist movement started in England with people beginning to spread the word of the horrors of the trade to sympathetic audiences. The Word spread through the major trade countries (considering the largest one was also the origins of the movement) and eventually virtually the whole world agreed.
Explain the emergence of new political ideologies in the 19th century.
debates about citizenship, sovereignty, and slavery made it clear that issues raised by the French Revolution were very much alive in Europe after 1815. Early nineteenth-century politics did not have parties as we know them today, but more clearly defined groups and competing doctrines, or ideologies, took shape during this time.
What were the questions posed by nationalism?
What exactly counted as a nation, who demanded a nation, and what did their demand mean?
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