AP Euro Unit 5

Overview

  • europeans states dominated

  • focused on French and British

    • Rise of British

    • French Revolution

      • Caused by fiscal crisis and enlightenment

      • Napolean modernized France

      • Liberalism and nationalism

        • Liberalism

          • Rooted in enlightenment ideals

          • Constitutional gov., civil liberties, laissez faire

        • Nationalism

          • People who share common language, culture, and history should have their own independent nation

          • self-determination

        • Nationalism could be achieved alongisde liberalism

        • Contrary to Conversvatism

          • Maintaining traditional monarchies and religion

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Romanticism - rebellion against enlightenment

British

  • growth of empire

    • increased naval power

      • Ex: Gibralter

    • 7 Years’ War - Control of Northern America

    • Control over India

French

  • Causes of french revolution

    • Debt from funding American Revolution

    • Enlightenment ideals

      • questioning old beliefs and authority

    • Success of constitutional monarchy

  • Liberal Phase

    • Constitutional monarchy

    • abolished noble privledges

    • nationalized catholic church

  • Radical Phase

    • Guillotine

    • Robespierre - obliterated traditional institutions

    • Dechristianization

    • Heavy of Economic regulation

  • Directory

  • Napoleonic Phase

  • Everyone is part of the nation

    • Rousseau - Social Contract

  • Birth of feminism

    • Wollstonecraft

    • De Gouge

    • Rousseau set us back (Separate spheres)

  • Led to unrest throughout the world

    • Haitian Revolution - slave revolt

  • Legacy   

    • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

      • Everyone born equal and free

    • destabilized traditional instuttions (monarchy and church)

    • Napolean (popular with the poeple)

      • Construction of a french nation

      • Catholicism made majority religion but not official

      • Napoleaonic Code

        • Set of laws

          • Set laws back for women but also weren’t so regressive

          • Dominated Europe militarily

            • traditional nobility strikes back and defeats Napolean

  • Congress of Vienna created after Napolean defeat

    • Euro aristocracy gets together to create new order

    • Restore balance of power

    • reduce war (Europe at war for decades)

Age of Metternich

  • Unprecedented stability

  • rise of romanticism

    • reaction to enlightenment and industrial revolution

    • embracing our emotions

    • romanicizing middle ages

    • religious revival and beauty of nature

  • Following Englightenment

    • resurgance of aristocracy

    • resurgance of religious thinking