The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

Flashcards about The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

Frédéric Sorrieu

A French artist who, in 1848, prepared a series of four prints, visualizing his dream of a world made up of democratic and Social Republics.

La patrie

The fatherland; the idea of the fatherland was introduced during the French Revolution.

Le citoyen

The citizen; the idea of the citizen was introduced during the French Revolution.

Napoleonic Code

The Civil Code of 1804, which did away with all privileges based on birth, established equality before the law, and secured the right to property.

Liberalism

Derives from the Latin root liber, meaning free. It advocated for the right to vote and to get elected was granted exclusively to property-owning men.

Zollverein

A customs union formed in 1834 at the initiative of Prussia and joined by most of the German states. It abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to two.

Giuseppe Mazzini

An Italian revolutionary born in Genoa in 1807; founded two underground societies: Young Italy in Marseilles and Young Europe in Berne.

Romanticism

A cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment.

Otto von Bismarck

Chief Minister of Prussia, and the architect of the process of national unification, which was carried out with the help of the Prussian army and bureaucracy.

Act of Union (1707)

Act between England and Scotland resulted in the formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’ meant, in effect, that England was able to impose its influence on Scotland.