AP Euro Chapter 21
The Karlsbad Decrees of 1819
defined an idea of german nationalism built around a common language, culture, and set of values
Romantics and early nationalist investigated folk songs, folk tales, and proverbs in order to
find the unique greatness of every people in its folk culture
The British Corn Laws of 1815 were enacted with the goal of
forbidding the importation of foreign grain unless prices in Britain reach very high levels, selfishly benefiting the aristocratic landowners in Britain
Why did Klemens von Metternich, as Austrian foreign minister, have to oppose the spread of nationalism in Europe?
Austria was a multiethnic empire and the spread of nationalism among its different ethnic groups threatened to dissolve the empire
In 1848 what reform did the French government refuse that created a sense of class injustice?
Electoral Reform
Which social groups composed the revolutionary alliance during the revolutions of 1848 in central Europe?
Students and urban workers
the romantic movement was characterized by
a belief in emotion exuberance and unrestrained imagination
According to Joseph Proudhon in the nineteenth century, property was
a profit stolen from workers
Composers in the romantic movement
abandoned well-defined structures and used a wide range of forms to evoke powerful emotions
What was the effect of France's Constitutional charter in the post-Napoleonic period?
it secured most of the gains made by the middle class and the peasantry during the French Revolution and permitted intellectual and artistic freedom
What was the driving force in history according to Marx in the nineteenth century?
the economic relationship between classes
what was one of Karl Marx's most important criticism of the French utopian socialist?
their utopian schemes were not realistic