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Europe 1815 to 1850: Europe After the French Revolution and Napoleon

Europe 1815 to 1850: Europe After the French Revolution and Napoleon. Standard 10.2.5. How nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon, was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.

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Europe 1815 to 1850: Europe After the French Revolution and Napoleon

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  1. Europe 1815 to 1850: Europe After the French Revolution and Napoleon

  2. Standard 10.2.5 How nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon, was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.

  3. Europe after Napoleon:The Congress of Vienna 1. The Great Powers met in Vienna, Austria to return the continent to stability.

  4. 2. The Great Powers • Great Britain: Lord Castlereagh • Russia: Czar Alexander I • Prussia: King Frederick William III • Austria: Prince Metternich • France: Prince Talleyrand

  5. A. The Congress of Vienna 3. The most important figure at the Congress of Vienna was • Prince Metternich • The Age of Metternich • The Age of Isms

  6. B. New Forces of Change • 1. Conservatism: Philosophy based on the desire to preserve traditional ways of doing things.

  7. 1. Conservatism a. Reaction against the ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. b. Supported by the upper class: aristocrats, high clergy and wealthy business owners. c. Felt French revolutionaries had come close to destroying civilization.

  8. B. New Forces of Change • 2. Liberalism: Philosophy that grew out of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, stresses individual freedom, equality, and freedom of thought and religion.

  9. 2. Liberalism a. Supported by rising middle class. b. Called for written constitutions, parliamentary government and the protection of natural rights. c. Liberals divided between those favored a republic for all citizens and those who were only for the educated or owned property.

  10. B. New Forces of Change • 3. Nationalism: A feeling of devotion to and pride in one’s country. a. Grew out of the French Revolution, when the French people united to defend their homeland from foreign monarchs.

  11. B. New Forces of Change b. Never in the history of Europe had there been such an army, the soldiers of the Revolution fought not for money but for the French nation. c. People began to take pride in their history, language, beliefs and in their own culture.

  12. C. The Congress of Vienna • 1. Congress of Vienna decides to bring back conservatism and block the new forces of liberalism and nationalism.

  13. C. The Congress of Vienna • 2. Prince Metternich dominants Congress of Vienna and Europe until 1850. a. Hated liberalism and nationalism. b. Believed the ideals of liberty and equality had brought 25 years of war and upheaval.

  14. 3. Balance of Power a. Dispute over lands, Russia and Prussia wanting more lands, allows France to enter picture on the side of Austria and Britain. b. France surrounded by allies.

  15. C. Congress of Vienna 4. Legitimacy: Monarchs forced out of power are returned to their throne.

  16. C. Congress of Vienna • 5. Concert of Europe: Agreed to continue to meet to discuss problems and prevent revolutions. • 6. No major war in Europe until World War I (1914-1918).

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