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the Irish nationalist that was elected to Parliament although he was not legally eligible, which helped to end the Anglican monopoly on British government
the leader of the Whigs, who helped Britain form a government by replacing "rotten" boroughs (ones with few voters) with representatives for unrepresented cities, increasing number of voters 50%, and forcing the passage of the reform bill by threatening to reform the House of Lords
(Earl) Grey
(Edmund) Burke
(Friedrich) Hegel
(George) Canning
(Jean-Jacques) Dessalines
the Haitian military leader of slave origin who resisted Napoleon and helped his country in 1804 be the first one to achieve independence from a slave-led rebellion the leading general of the Rio de Plata forces who marched over the Andes to secure Chile's independence in 1817, and then sailed to Peru to drive out royalist forces there as well in 1820 a Serbian leader that lead guerrilla warfare against the Ottomans and helped build national self-identity and attracted the interest of the great powers, although unsuccessful
(Kara) George
(Karl) Sand
a student and Burschenschaft member that assassinated a conservative, and became a nationalist martyr upon his execution
the British lord whose ministry was unprepared to deal with postwar unemployment and poor harvests, and passed the Six Acts to support the Peterloo massacre and ensure order
(Lord) Liverpool
(Miguel) Hidalgo
a Creole priest that in 1810 organized a rebellion of the Indians, blacks, and mestizos in his parish, capturing several cities and marched to Mexico city, where he was captured and executed
the man who freed Venezuela and was named president, and then recaptured Peru after an unfavorable meeting with San Martin in 1823, marking the end of Spain's effort to retain its South American empire
(Simon) Bolivar
the event that caused Philhellenic societies in nearly every country and was famous because it attracted the support and participation of many writers and liberals
a former slave that emerged as the leader of the Haitian slave rebellion that caused enormous violence, caused from the Colonial Assembly's refusal to grant mulattos the right of white men, and eventually abolished slavery with French assistance before getting captured by Napoleon in 1803 who feared Haiti was undermining his authority
(Toussaint) L'Ouverture
1830
the year in which Charles X called for new elections, but the liberals scored a stunning victory, and so he attempted a royalist takeover
Act of Union
William Pitt the Younger's act that allowed Protestant Irish to be elected into Parliament
the Russian tsar that first tried Enlightenment ideas, but then turned away from reform and took the lead in suppressing liberalism and nationalism
the city that Charles X seized control of during his reign, making it later an integral part of France due to merchant ties and French immigrants into its large territory the country to which the programs of liberalism and nationalism were most dangerous due to its wide variety of ethnic groups living under the same rule
Alexander (I)
Algiers
Austria
autocracy
Belgium
a country that had been merged with Holland in 1815 but fought and won for its independence in 1830, becoming a guaranteed neutral state
Bourbon
Brazil
Burschenschaften
Carlsbad Decrees
the act that allowed Roman Catholics to be members of Parliament, showing the compromise reached between conservatives and liberals
the extremely radical conspiracy headed by the demented Arthur Thistlewood to blow up the entire British cabinet, which helped discredit the movement for parliamentary reform
the French monarch that strongly believed in rule by divine right, took conservative actions against aristocrats that had gained land in the revolution, restored primogeniture, and attempted a royalist seizure of power that ended in his abdication
Charles X
Coercion Acts
the 1817 acts in Britain that temporarily suspended habeas corpus and extended existing laws against seditious gatherings in order to repress discontent
the arrangement for major powers to consult each other on matters affecting Europe as a whole and resolving mutual foreign policy issues, preventing one nation from taking major action in international affairs without obtaining the consent of the others (it was especially directed against France and Russia)
Concert of Europe
Congress of Troppau
the 1820 gathering between the Holy Alliance, Britain, and France that declared stable governments allowed to intervene to restore order in countries experiencing a revolution, aimed towards tumultuous Italy
conservatism
the government form based in legitimate monarchies, landed aristocracies, and established churches
the brother of Tsar Alexander I, who married a woman who was not of royal blood and thus excluded himself from the throne although he was more popular than his brother
Constantine
Corn Law
the 1815 law passed by Parliament that maintained high prices for domestically produced grain by levying import duties on foreign grain
creoles
the merchants, landowners, and professional people of Spanish descent in South America who were most discontented by Iberian rule and secured their countries' independence, although to no benefit of slaves, natives, mulattos, or mestizos
Decembrist Revolt
the refusal of many junior officers to swear allegiance to Nicholas I as tsar, leading to a massacre and investigation of the secret army societies; it was the first rebellion in modern Russian history whose instigators had specific political goals--constitutional government and abolition of serfdom
Dom Pedro
the regent of Brazil that embraced the cause of Brazilian independence and became emperor of a peacefully independent Brazil, succeeded by his son Spain's ruler after Napoleon who ignored his pledge for a Constitution until officers rebelled, but the Holy Alliance came and suppressed the revolution, restoring him to the throne
the 1820 act issued by the German Confederation that limited the subjects that the constitutional chambers of Bavaria, Wurttemberg, and Baden could discuss, and asserted the right of the monarchs to resist demands of constitutionalists
Ferdinand (VII)
Final Act
Four Ordinances
Charles X's act that restricted the press, dissolved the Chamber of Deputies, called for new elections, and limited franchise to the wealthiest citizens, which lead to a rebellion in Paris and Charles' abdication
the Prussian ruler that promised a constitutional government in 1815, but instead created a Council of State responsible to him alone and eight diets headed by Junkers, supressing reform
the thirty-nine states established under Austrian leadership that replaced the Holy Roman Empire under the Vienna settlement, that Austria was determine to dominate to prevent the formation of a national state and the dissolution of Austria
German Confederation
the British law published in 1832 that expanded the size of the English electorate but kept property and gender as qualification for voting, which just widened the variety of voters; this was the reason why revolution in Britain was not necessary, because they had the same institutions, just influenced by different people
Haiti
the country that achieved independence during its revolution 17911804, sparked by the policies of the French Revolution, and that demonstrated that slaves of African origins could lead a revolt against white masters and mulatto freemen
Hispanola
Ireland
Joao
July Monarchy
juntas
local Creole political committees that claimed the right to govern different regions of South America, which ended the privileges of peninsulares
liberal
the 19th century term for people who wanted toleration, equality, parliamentary monarchy, constitutionalism, and free trade with no tariffs or barriers; the most prominent advocators of privilege based on wealth and property, not birth
Louis Philippe
the french king that replaced Charles X and headed a more liberal government with a constitution and a restored Chamber of Deputies, although socially the rule proved conservative
the political realist that became the constitutional monarch of France under his constitution, the Charter, and although he was at first open to liberalism, he was persuaded by ultraroyalists to drive liberals to near illegal status
Louis XVIII
Metternich
the Austrian diplomat that epitomized conservatism and was the chief architect of the Vienna settlement
the leader of the Serbian rebellion that gained administrative autonomy for Serbia and in 1830 independence, and became hereditary prince of the expanding nation
Milos (Obrenovitch)
nationalism
the single most powerful European political ideology of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
people who believed that groups of people from the same ethnicity, language, culture, and history, should be administered by the same government
the tsar whose reign was disputed and was faced within days by rebellious junior offices, leading to the Decembrist Revolt and repression of liberalism and nationalism
the Russian program that placed the church as a basis for morality, education, and intellectual life, taught Russians to spurn social mobility, and glorified the Russian nationality as a source of perennial wisdom that separated them from the corruption and turmoil of the West
nationalists
Nicholas (I)
Official Nationality
Organic Statute
the 1832 declaration that Poland was an integral part of the Russian empire, triggered by riots in Warsaw and a small revolution that tried to depose Nicholas as king of Poland
Peterloo
the 1819 massacre the ensued after panic broke out during a radical reform campaign due to the militia in the crowd, and resulted in the Six Acts
Poor Law
the law that many of Britain's taxpaying classes wanted to abolish, that provided public relief for the destitute and unemployed, showing the abandonment by the British ruling class of its traditional role of the paternalistic protector of the poor
Rio de la Plata
the first region in South America to assert its independence, by thrusting off Spanish authority in 1810, as well as sending forces to liberate Paraguay and Uruguay, although these battles were lost the country that gained close support from Russia because of their Slav heritage and Eastern Orthodox church, while having tension with Austria because of their expansion of territory
the 1819 acts that prevented radical leaders from agitation and gave the authorities new powers by banning public meetings and armed groups, tightening laws on libel, increasing newspaper taxes, and allowing for searching of homes
Serbia
Six Acts
the Charter
the constitution of France that provided for a hereditary monarchy and bicameral legislature, religious toleration, and did not challenge the property rights of landowners that had benefited from the revolution
Treaty of Adrianople
the 1829 agreement that gained Ottoman holdings in Romania for Russia and allowed Britain, France, and Russia to decide the future of Greece
Treaty of London
the 1827 agreement that demanded Trukish recognition of Greek independence the 1830 agreement that declared Greece an independent kingdom and Otto I the first king of the new Greek kingdom supporters of the monarchy in France that strongly opposed liberalism and stopped its spread in France the German name for the last part of conflict with Napoleon, that resulted in his defeat
Treaty of London
Ultraroyalists
Wars of Liberation
White terror
the bloodbath of royalists in France against former revolutionaries and supporters of Napoleon out of a need for revenge for their suffering during the revolution