Transcript Chapter 21

Chapter 21
Reaction, Revolution, and
Romanticism,
1815 - 1850
The Conservative Order
The Concert of Europe
Congress of Vienna
Prince Klemens von Metternich
New balance of power
• Germanic Confederation
• Napoleon’s escape from Elba
Conservative Domination:
Ideology of Conservatism
From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution of
France
Obedience to political authority
Organized religion was crucial to social order
Hated revolutionary upheavals
Unwilling to accept liberal demands or representative
government
Principle of Intervention
Quadruple Alliance
Allied intervention in Spain and Italy
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Europe after the Congress of
Vienna
Latin American, Greek Revolts
Revolt in Latin America
Bourbon monarchy of Spain toppled
Latin American countries begin declaring independence
• Simón Bolivar (1783-1830)
• José de San Martín (1778-1850)
Britain began to dominate Latin American economy
The Greek Revolt, 1821-1832
Intervention could support revolution as well
Greek revolt in, 1820
Britain, France, Russia at war
Treaty of Adrianople, 1829
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Latin America in the First Half of
the Nineteenth Century
Conservative Domination:
The European States
Great Britain: Rule of the Tories
Landowning classes dominate Parliament
Tory and Whig factions; Tories dominate
Restoration of France
Intervention in the Italian States and Spain
Central Europe, the German Confederation
Austrian Empire
Russia
Rural, agricultural, and autocratic
Alexander I (1801-1825)
Nicholas I (1825-1855)
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The
Balkans
by 1830
Ideologies of Change
Liberalism
• Economic liberalism (classical economics)
 Laissez-faire
• Political liberalism
 Ideology of political liberalism
• David Ricardo (1772-1823),
• John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
 Supported Women’s rights
 On the Subjection of Women
Nationalism
• Part of a community with common institutions, traditions,
language, and customs
• The community is called a “nation”
• Nationalist ideology
• Allied with liberalism
Ideologies of Change (cont.)
Early Socialism
Early socialism (utopian societies)
Robert Owen (1771-1858)
• New Lanark, Scotland
• New Harmony, Indiana
• Frances Wright, Nashoba, Tennessee
Louis Blanc
Flora Tristan
The Distribution of Language in
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Revolution and Reform, 1830-1850
The Revolutions of 1830
Charles X (1824-1830)
• Revolt by liberals
Louis-Philippe (1830-1848)
• The bourgeois monarch
• Constitutional changes favor the upper bourgeoisie
Roll of nationalism
Austrian Netherlands given to Dutch Republic
Revolt by the Belgians
Revolt attempts in Poland and Italy
Revolts led to reform in Britain
The Revolutions of 1848
Another French Revolution
Scandals, graft, corruption, and failure to initiate reform
Louis-Philippe abdicates, February 24, 1848
Provisional government established
• Elections to be by universal manhood suffrage
• National workshops
• Growing split between moderate and liberal republicans
Second Republic established
• Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected in December,
1848
Revolution in Central Europe
French revolts led to promises of reform
Frederick William IV (1840-1861)
• Frankfurt Assembly
Austrian Empire
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Louis Kossuth, Hungary
Metternich flees the country
Hungary’s wishes granted
Concessions will led to greater demands
Francis Joseph I (1848-1916)
Revolts in the Italian States
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
Young Italy, 1831
Goal: a united Italy
Cristina Belgioioso (1808-1871)
1848 revolutions
Rebellions began in Sicily
Rulers promised reforms
Charles Albert (1831-1849) calls for war against
Austria
Revolutions ended in failure
The Maturing of the United States
The American Constitution contained forces
of liberalism and nationalism
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804),
Federalist
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Republican
Effects of War of 1812
John Marshall (1755-1835)
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), Democracy
Emergence of an Ordered Society
New Police Forces
Serjents
British Bobbies
Schutzmannschaft
Prison Reform
Walnut Street Prison, Petite Roquette,
Pentonville
The Mood of Romanticism
Emotion, sentiment, and inner feelings
Tragic figure
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
The Sorrows of the Young Werther
Individualism
Interest in the past
Grimm Brothers
Hans Christian Andersen
Walter Scott
Gothic literature
Edgar Allan Poe (1808-1849)
Mary Wallstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Experimentation with drugs
Romantic Poets and the Love of
Nature
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Prometheus Unbound
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The mysterious force of nature
Romanticism in Art and Music
Art
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840)
• God and nature
Joseph Malford William Turner
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
• Passion for color
Music
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Frenchman Hector Berlioz
Revival of Religion
Catholicism
Protestantism
Discussion Questions
How do the revolts in Latin America affect the
trading patterns with Europe?
How was the Greek revolt against the Ottoman
Empire transformed into a noble cause?
How does Russia’s actions affect the cause of
Greek independence?
How did the Romantic view society and the social
conventions of the day?
Web Links
Congress of Vienna
Quintuple Alliance
Simon Bolivar
Utopian Socialism
Revolutions of 1848
Gothic Literature
Eugene Delacroix