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Reaction, Revolution & Romanticism 1815-
1850
Europe 1812
The Congress of Vienna
September 1, 1814 - June 9, 1815
Main Objectives
The task was to undo everything that Napoleon had done:
Reduce France to its old boundaries - frontiers pushed back to 1790 levels
Restore as many of the old monarchies that had lost their throne during Napoleonic era
Key Players @ Vienna
The “Host”Prince Klemens vonMetternich (Aus.)
Tsar Alexander I(Rus.)
Foreign Minister,Viscount Castlereagh
(Br.)
King FrederickWilliam III (Prus.)
Foreign Minister, CharlesMaurice de Tallyrand (Fr.)
Key Principles Established
Legitimacy
Balance of Power
Compensation
Coalition forces would occupy France for 3-5 years
France to pay an indemnity of 700,000,000 francs
Reactionary torevolutions based on conservatism
Changes Made @ Vienna
France deprived of Napoleon expansion
Russia given most of Duchy of Warsaw (Poland)
Prussia given half of Saxony, parts of Poland and other German territory
Germanic Confederation of 38 states (including Prussia) created from previous 300, under Austrian rule
Austria given back territory lost plus more in Germany and Italy
The House of Orange given the Dutch Republic and Austrian Netherlands to rule
Changes Made @ Vienna
• Norway and Sweden joined
• Neutrality of Switzerland guaranteed
• Britain given Cape Colony, South Africa and various other colonies in Africa and Asia
• Sardinia was given Piedmont, Nice, Savoy and Genoa
• Bourbon Ferdinand I restored in Two Sicilies
Europe After C of V
Conservatism• Philosophy developed to repress
liberal/nationalist ideals from French Rev
• Burke - society a contract to be preserved by generations - no sudden change
• Maistre - absolute monarchy - “order in society”
• Advocated for hereditary monarchy, landed aristocracy, gov bureaucracies and Church
• Holy Alliance 1818 Aus, Rus, Prus – repress liberal thought & enforce Christianity
Concert of Europe(Congress System)
• Reaffirmation of the Quadruple Alliance
• Meet and discuss from time to time to preserve balance of power
• France brought in 1818
• Principle of Intervention - Britain not cool with
Latin America
• Napoleon topples Bourbon Monarchy in Spain - lose influence in Latin Am
• Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin lead revolts for ind in Latin America
• Continental Powers wanted to intervene
• Britain and Monroe Doctrine said “No dice”
Latin Am Revolts
Italy & Spain
• 1820 liberal revolutionaries overthrow Ferdinand I of Italy and Ferdinand VII of Sp
• Concert of Europe successful at restoring order – Principle of Intervention
• Austrian forces in Italy
• French forces in Spain
Greek Revolt
• The “Eastern Question” - what to do about the Ottoman influence in Europe
• 1820 sentiment of revolution in Greeks
• 1827 supported by British/French fleet
• 1828 Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire
• 1830 R,F,B declare Greek Ind
Conservative Gov in GB
• Both political factions (Tories & Whigs) largely made up of aristocrats Whigs becoming more open to industrial class
• Tories dominate til 1830 little desire for change
• Corn Laws 1815 - help landed elite
• 1819 Peterloo Massacre
• Gov crackdown (Six Acts)
Peaceful Progress in GB
• Reform Bill 1832 eliminates “rotten boroughs”
• Chartist movement fails on universal male suffrage but joins forces for Anti Corn League
• Corn Laws repealed 1846
• Ten Hours Act 1847
France Steps Back• Louis XVIII kept many of changes from Rev
• Civil Code, property rights, bicameral leg
• Pressured by liberals for more reform and ultraroyalists for a return to old regime
• 1824 power passed to his bro count of Artois becoming Charles X - favored aristocracy
• Military adventure to Algeria
• July Ordinances gets him canned
German States
• Fred William III had embraced ideals of Napoleon
• After 1815 becomes reactionary
• Burschenschaften
• Carlsbad Decrees of 1819
Why was Metternich such a stick in the
mud?• Austrian Empire a multinational state
• Collection of people held together simply by bond of Habsburg emperor
• Ideals of nationalism and liberalism would crush the empire so keep status quo at all costs
Russia & Decembrist Revolt
• Alexander reverses policies and more reactionary after Napoleon
• Northern Union – intellectuals eyes opened to west during Napoleon
• Alexander’s death – Constantine v. Nicholas
• December 1825
• Nicholas crushes dissenters
• Policeman of Europe
1848 Revs Fail
• France – Lib/Socialists can’t agree – 2nd Republic will become 2nd Empire
• Austria – Nationalism just won’t work in multi-ethnic state Francis Joseph with help from Nicholas I (Russia)
• Prussia – Little German vs Big German question takes too long and Frederick William says no to “crown from gutter”