Chapter 21 Quiz

What was one of Karl Marx's most important criticisms of the French utopian socialists?

Their utopian schemes were not realistic.

The Karlsbad Decrees of 1819

defined an idea of German nationalism built around a common language, culture, and set of values.

Romantics and early nationalists 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 reached very high levels, selfishly benefited the aristocratic landowners in Britain.

According to Joseph Proudhon in the nineteenth centruy, property was

profit stolen from workers.

Why did Klemens von Metternich, as Austrian foreign minister, have to oppose the spread of nationalism in Europe?

Austria was a multi-ethnic 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

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.

Which social groups composed the revolutionary alliance during the revolutionary of 1848 in central Europe?

Students and urban workers

What was the driving force in history according to Karl Marx?

The economic relationship between classes.

The romantic movement was characterized by

a belief in emotional exuberance and unrestrained imagination.

Composers in the romantic movement

abandoned well-defined structures and used a wide range of forms to evoke powerful emotions.