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Metternich“ISMS” British

Reforms1848 Urban

Society

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This bloody 1819 event occurred in England when a

crowd protested the Corn Laws.

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What is the Peterloo

Massacre?

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Metternich led a diet to issue these laws to

drive liberals and nationalists

underground in the German

Confederation.

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What are the Carlsbad Decrees?

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The Quadruple Alliance formed the backbone of

this series of arrangements to maintain

the status quo and a general peace until the

1850s.

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What is the Concert of Europe?

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This conservative system sought to resolve European

disputes through a series of conferences but it only lasted until

1822 when Britain opted out.

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What is the Congress System?

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This ultra-conservative arrangement, proposed by

Tsar Alexander I, was a throwback to the Middle

Ages but had little influence outside eastern

Europe.

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What is the “Holy

Alliance?”

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This “ism” sought to return European society

to the ancien regime ways prior to the

French Revolution.

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What is conservatism?

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This “ism” strongly advocated

representative government and was favored especially by

the middle class.

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What is liberalism?

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This “ism” was advocated by Herder, who believed a unique “volksgeist” existed

among different groups of peoples.

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What is nationalism?

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This “ism” rejected the rationalism of

the Enlightenment.

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What is Romanticism?

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Emile Zola and Heinrich Ibsen were two leading

writers of this movement.

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What is Realism?

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This monumental British law made the

House of Commons the most powerful body in

Parliament.

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What is the Reform Bill of

1832.

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This law prohibited the employment of children under the

age of nine.

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What is the Factory Act of

1833?

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This group advocated universal

suffrage for men.

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What is the Chartist

movement?

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This organization worked tirelessly for decades to kill the high tariff of 1815.

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What is the Anti-Corn Law

League?

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This religiously-driven reformer campaigned to

end slavery in the British Empire.

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Who is William Wilberforce?

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This 1848 revolution saw the overthrow of Louis Philippe and the creation of the Second

French Republic.

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What is the February

Revolution?

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This 1848 Revolution in France saw class

warfare between the bourgeoisie and the

proletariat.

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What is the “June Days”

Revolution?

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This failed 1849 attempt by Frederick

William IV of Prussia to unify the German

states became known by this term.

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What is the “Humiliation of Olmutz?”

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This newly-created body oversaw the 1848

Revolution in the German Confederation

seeking to unify Germany under

Prussian leadership.

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What is the Frankfurt

Parliament?

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This Magyar leader nearly succeeded in winning Hungary’s independence from

Austria.

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Who is Louis Kossuth?

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This urban planner rebuilt Paris under

the reign of Napoleon III.

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Who is Georges von Haussmann?

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This Benthamite’s “sanitary idea” helped clean up

cities and reduce disease.

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Who is Edwin Chadwick?

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This scientist’s germ theory of disease was

responsible for the greatest breakthrough

in reducing the transmission of disease.

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Who is Louis Pasteur?

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This 1890s innovation represented the real revolution in public

transportation.

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What is the electric

streetcar?

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This term refers to the new urban phenomenon where the wife was the

homemaker and the husband was the wage

earner.

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What is separate spheres?

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This 18th-century Enlightenment economist was

championed by liberals and business owners

for his belief in laissez faire.

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Who is Adam Smith?

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This country became Europe’s leading

industrial nation by 1914.

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What is Germany?

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This innovation resulted in iron being turned into steel, a

new major industry of the 2nd Industrial

Revolution.

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What is the Bessemer Process?

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This free-trade zone developed in the

German Confederation after 1834.

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What is the Zollverein?

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This liberal economist spoke about an “iron

law of wages” that kept wages very low for

workers due to overpopulation in cities.

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Who is David Ricardo?

Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6

The Arts Socialism Romanti-cism

National-ism

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This Frenchman became most associated with

Impressionism, after he painted Impression:

Sunrise (1873)

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Who is Claude Monet?

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This artist’s “Starry Night” was

emblematic of Post-Impressionism (or Expressionism).

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Who is Vincent Van

Gogh?

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This Frenchman is considered the first

“modernist” painter due to his painting of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

(Luncheon on theGrass), 1863.

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Who is Edouard Manet?

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This German composer straddled the Classical and Romantic periods and famously used a

romantic poem by Schiller in his 9th

Symphony.

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Who is Ludwig van

Beethoven?

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This German romantic painter’s mystical view of

he sublime power of nature was portrayed in

such paintings as Wanderers Above the

Mist.

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Who is Caspar David

Friedrich?

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This German thinker is seen as the “father” of

communism.

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Who is Karl Marx?

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This co-author of the Communist Manifesto

lashed out at the middle classes in his The

Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)

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Who is Friedrich Engels?

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This French socialist wrote What is

Property? and believed that profit was stolen from the worker who was the source of all

wealth.

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Who is Pierre Joseph

Proudhon?

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This French socialist demanded universal

suffrage for workers and urged them to take control

of the government peacefully. He later played a role in the “June Days”

Revolution.

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Who is Louis Blanc?

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This early French utopian socialist

advocated planned communities and even the total emancipation

of women.

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Who is Charles Fourier?

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This Enlightenment philosophe is also

considered one of the first romantics for his views of humans in a

state of nature as “noble savages.”

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Who is Jean-Jacques

Rousseau?

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This French artist is considered the greatest of the

Romantic painters: he painted Liberty

Leading the People.

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Who is Eugène Delacroix?

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This influential German romantic wrote Faust and Sorrows of Young

Werther.

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Who is Goethe?

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This French romantic author wrote such

classics as Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les

Misérables.

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Who is Victor Hugo?

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The Houses of Parliament in London

were built in this Medieval-inspired architectural style.

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What is Gothic Revivalism?

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This country won its independence in 1829

with the surprising support of Britain and

France.

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What is

Greece?

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This Italian was the leading figure in the movement for Italian

independence/unification in the years prior to

1850.

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Who is Giuseppe Mazzini?

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This country won its independence from the Netherlands in

1830.

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What is Belgium?

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This Italian opera composer embodied the

ideal of Italian independence and his operas evoked strong

nationalist views.

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Who is Giuseppe Verdi?

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This German thinker is considered by some as the “father” of German nationalism. He spoke of German superiority while criticizing Jews.

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Who is Johann Gottlieb Fichte?

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This biologist wrote On the Origins of the Human Species.

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Who is Charles Darwin?

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This Austrian psychoanalyst believed

that the human subconscious was

responsible for humans being irrational

creatures.

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Who is Sigmund Freud?

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This scientist’s “germ theory” of disease was

responsible for the greatest breakthrough

in reducing the transmission of disease.

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Who is Louis Pasteur?

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This liberal wrote perhaps the definitive work on liberalism in

1859, On Liberty.

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Who is John Stuart Mill?

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This English utilitarian thinker believed in

government policies to provide “the greatest good for the greatest

number.”

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Who is Jeremy

Bentham?

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This liberal-leaning political party

instituted a number of reforms in Britain

in the 1830s and 1840s.

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What is the Whig party?

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This attempted 1825 liberal revolution of junior army officers sought to take over

Russia after Tsar Alexander I died.

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What is the Decembrist Uprising?

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French King Charles X was overthrown by

liberal-minded revolutionaries in this

1830 uprising.

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What is the “July

Revolution?”

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This term identifies the lower-middle class in 19th-century society.

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What is the petite

bourgeoisie?

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Pope Leo XIII condemned socialism, defended

private property, and supported improved

working conditions for the proletariat in this papal

declaration.

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What is Rerum Novarum?

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