The chief purpose of the Congress of Vienna was to?: A. stimulate nationalism.B. protect western Europe from autocratic Russia.C. restore the Old Regime as far as possible.D. preserve the basic reforms of the French Revolution.E. make Poland an independent state.

1800s - Age of Conservatism

•“Age of Metternich”

•Congress of Vienna

•battling liberalism of French Rev

•liberalism comes into play with reforms

Nationalism•Revolutionary force (1815-1850)

•Refer back to the Congress of Vienna/Concert of Europe notes here!!!

Edmund Burke

•Basis of nationalism

•believed that nations should be governed by national traditions

•Reflections on the Revolution in France

•Austria/Germany - multinational - dangerous!

•Carlsbad Decrees (1819) stop liberalism in Univ. and pushes away nat’lism

How can you compare these to

other governments today?

What about in the US?

British•Liberalism stifled

•Corn Laws - stops import of cheap grains

•Peterloo Massacre - Pro-liberal crowd attacked, eleven killed

•press brought under gov’t control

France•Charter of 1814 -

starts cons. monarchy under Louis XVIII

•1815 - “White Terror” kills former revolutionaries

•1823 - French stop Spanish Rebellion

•1829 - Heir Murdered, crackdown on liberalism

Russia •Decembrist Uprising - upper class, oppose king

•Russia becomes police state

•Slavophiles - intellectuals who favored villages

•Westernizers - wanted to industrialize + setup const. gov’t