Chapter 21 - Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

Congress of Vienna

The ________ had established nine states in Italy.

aristocratic landowning class

The ________ was usually the driving force for legislation that halted some of the worst abuses in the industrial system by instituting government regulation of working conditions in the factories and mines.

1815

In ________, Great Britain was governed by the aristocratic landowning classes that dominated both houses of Parliament.

Metternich

________ and his kind were representatives of the ideology known as conservatism.

reform act

There was a(n) ________ in 1832 that benefited the upper middle class and they were able to vote, but the lower class still did not have a say.

Liberalism

________ is an ideology that owed a lot to the enlightenment of the 18th century.

British population

Suffrage for elections to the House of Commons, controlled by the landed gentry, was restricted and unequal, especially in light of the changing distribution of the ________ due to the Industrial Revolution.

half of the nineteenth century

The first ________ witnessed a significant increase in crime, especially against property, in Britain, France, and Germany.

Romantic writers

________ emphasized emotion, sentiment, and inner feelings in their works.

Metternich

To re-establish peace and stability in Europe, ________ claimed it was necessary to restore the legitimate monarchs who would preserve traditional institutions.

Quadruple Alliance

After Napoleon’s defeat, this ________ restored the Bourbon monarchy to France in the person of Louis XVIII and agreed to meet at a congress in Vienna in September 1814 to arrange a final peace settlement.

Laissez-Faire

Also called classical economics, economic liberalism had as its primary tenet the concept of ________, the belief that the state should not interrupt the free play of natural economic forces, especially supply and demand.

Nationalism

________ was a powerful ideology for change in the nineteenth century. This arose out of an awareness of being part of a community that has common institutions, traditions, language, and customs.

Revolutionary

Around the 1830s change started in the domination of Europe. Finally in 1848 people started asking for change and a ________ fever spread around.