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AP European History
Unit: Ideologies & Upheavals, 1815-1850
Study Guide
Questions
 How did the Congress of Vienna attempt to achieve a balance of power?
 How was France treated at the Congress of Vienna? What barriers were erected against
future French aggression?
 What territories changed hands as a result of the Congress of Vienna?
 Why did Metternich support conservatism and oppose liberal or nationalist reforms?
 What were the basic principles of conservatism, liberalism, utopian socialism, and Marxism
(communism)?
 How did the middle classes use liberal principles for their own benefit?
 What were the major principles of 19th-century nationalism?
 Why did liberalism and nationalism often go hand in hand during the 19th century?
 Why did the views of socialists turn off many members of the middle class?
 What were the characteristics of Romanticism? How did it differ from Classicism?
 How did Romantic composers change music during the 19th century?
 Why did the Great Powers eventually intervene in favor of Greek liberation?
 How successful were the liberal reform movements in Great Britain during the early- to mid19th century?
 Why did the coalitions of middle and working classes fall apart in France and Austria during
the revolutions of 1848?
 What role did nationalism play in the revolutions of 1848?
Terms
Quadruple Alliance
Klemens von Metternich
Robert Castlereagh
Charles Talleyrand
Alexander I of Russia (1801-1825)
Louis XVIII of France (1814-1824)
Ferdinand VII of Spain (1808-1833)
Concert of Europe
Holy Alliance
principle of intervention
Carlsbad Decrees (1819)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
John Stuart Mill
democratic republicanism
self-determination
Giuseppe Mazzini
Charles Fourier
Louis Blanc
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Classicism
Romanticism
Sturm und Drang
“bohemian lifestyle”
William Wordsworth
Samuel Coleridge
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Germaine de Stael
Victor Hugo
Eugene Delacroix
John Constable
Franz Liszt
Ludwig von Beethoven
Alexander Ypsilanti
Corn Laws
Six Acts (1819)
Peterloo Massacre (1819)
Tory Party
Whig Party
Reform Bill of 1832
Anti-Corn Law League
Robert Peel
French Constitutional Charter of 1814
Charles X of France (1824-1830)
Louis Phillippe (“the bourgeois king”)
“national workshops”
Louis Napoleon (1830-1848)
Franz Joseph of Austria (1848-1916)
Nicholas I of Russia (1825-1855)
Louis Kossuth
German Confederation
Frankfurt Assembly
Grossdeutsch vs. Kleindeutsch
Schleswig-Holstein
Essay
Why did the revolutions of 1848 fail ultimately? Please cite examples from France, Austria, and
Prussia.