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Western Civilization
Chapter 23
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03/02/2007

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Congress of Vienna
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drew up a peace settlement after the defeat of Napoleon
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Prince Klemens von Metternich
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organized the coalition that triumphed over Napoleon
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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represented Britain in the Congress of Vienna
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Tsar Alexander I
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steeped in Christian mysticism, wanted to create a European community based on Christian teachings.
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Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
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sought to remove from France the stigma of the Revolution and Napoleon; represented France
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Prince Karl van Hardenberg
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represented Prussia
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the Concert of Europe
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empowered France to intervene.
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Nicholas I
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was severely punished
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Louis XVIII
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a Bourbon king, ascended the throne of France
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the Charter
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declared that the king's power rested on divine right
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Charles X
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King Louis XVIII's younger brother
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Louis Philippe
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never forgot that he owed his throne to the upper burgeois
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The Municipal Corporations Act
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granted towns and cities greater authority over their affairs
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Public Health Act
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Parliament passed to institue sanitation
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rotten boroughs
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sparsely populated regions that sent representatives to the House of Commons
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King William IV
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became convinced that the situation was potentially revolutionary.
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The Reform Act of 1832
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extended the suffrage to the middle class
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Chartists
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reformists
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Feargus O'Connor
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organized a mass demonstration to present a huge petition of six demands to Parliament
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Jacques Droz
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a historian
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King Louis Philippe
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moderated by temperament and philosophy - had no intention of going forward to democracy
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Francois Guizot
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the leading minister
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The June Days
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left deep scars on French society
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Louis Napoleon
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nephew of the great emperor
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Frederick William IV
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opposed the idea of bombarding Berlin with artillery and ordered troops to leave Berlin
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Francis Palacky
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Czesch historian and statesman
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Louis Kossuth
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a member of the lower nobility
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King Ferdinand II
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granted a liberal constitution
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the grand duke of Tuscany, King Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia, and Pope Pius IX
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felt compelled to introduce liberal reforms
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"Five Glorious Days"
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five days of street fighting
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Pope Pius IX
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forced to flee Rome because of Revolutionary disorders
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Wilhelm Jordan
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described the Poles as a people "which does not possess the same measure of human content as is given to the German kind"
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