Luddites

- Social movement of British textile artisans 19th cent. Europe

-Protested against the changes caused by the industrial rev.

-They felt the ind. rev. was putting them out of work and changing their way of life

-They often distroyed new machines, mechanized looms, ect.

-After Napolean, diplomats met to figure out how to restore order

-Goal was to create a lassting peace by establishing balance of power

-COV purpose was to redraw the continents political map and settle other issues from french rev and napoleonic wars

-Lasted from Sept. 1814 to June 1815

-(15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859) German-Austrian Politician and statesman

-served as chairman at congress of vienna for austria

-Ruled during the age of metternich

-Believed in absolute monarchy and hated liberalism

-Major figure in the negotiations before and during the Congres of Vienna 

 -Edmund Burke promoted this idea

-Did not believe in new ideas such as liberty, equality, and fraternity

-Did not have faith in the individual

-Wanted to move back in time and felt that the old regime was ideal

-16 August 1819

-The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester England

-Cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the reform of parliamentary representation

-Politically active students around 1815 in the german states proposing unification and democratic principle

-Dedicated to promoting the goal of a free, united germany

- Formed nationalist student societies held a mass rally at which they burned books they did not like, including the napoleonic code

-Introduced by metternich in 1819

-They banned nationalist fraternities: "Burschenschaften"

-Removed liberal university professors

-Banned freedom of press, assembly, and speech

-(1766-1834) English economist: said that population tends to increase more rapidly than food supplies

-Author of essay on the principle of population (1798)

-(1772–1823) He was a member of Parliament, businessman, financier and speculator

-Said that more than one nation could benefit from trade with one another

-"iron law of wages", labor increase=standard of living decreases, wages are controlled naturally by size of labor pool

-Economic philosophy that supports and promotes laissez-faire economics and private property

-Suggests that people are happiest and economy thrives most when governments minimize their regulation, monitoring, and control over the work we do and the kinds of goods we buy & sell

-The belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights

-Supports such fundamental ideas as constitutions, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, free trade, and the freedom of religion