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Chapter 24 Section 2. Europe Faces Revolution. Key Terms. Conservative Liberal Radical Nationalism Nation-state The Balkans Louis-Napoleon Alexander II . Clash of Philosophies. Conservative-usually wealthy property owners and nobility argued to protect traditional monarchies - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 24 Section 2
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Key Terms
• Conservative• Liberal• Radical• Nationalism• Nation-state• The Balkans• Louis-Napoleon• Alexander II
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Clash of Philosophies
• Conservative-usually wealthy property owners and nobility argued to protect traditional monarchies
• Liberal-middle class business leaders and merchants, give more power to elected parliament only wealthy landowners could vote
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Clash of Philosophies
Radical- favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people
Government should practice ideals of French Revolution
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Nationalism Develops
The belief that people’s royalty should not be to king or empire but to a nation of people
Blurs the lines of the three political theories
Nation-state- has its own independent government
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Nationalism Develops
• 1815 only France England and Spain
• Most people who believed in nationalism were liberals or radicals
• Middle class lawyers, teachers and business people
• Germany people wanted to unite
• Austrian empire wanted to split
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Nationalists Challenge Conservative Power Greeks the first to
win self rule Ottomans controlled
the Balkans Region that includes
all of present day Greece and several other countries
1821 Greeks rebel
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Greeks Gain Independence
• Most powerful governments opposed revolution
• Greeks was popular with people around the world
• Educated Europeans and Americans respected their culture
• Russia connected through the church
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Greeks Gain Independence
1827 combined British, French and Russian fleet destroyed the Ottoman fleet
1830 Britain, France and Russia sign a peace treaty guaranteeing Greek independence
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1830 Uprisings Crushed
• 1830’s the old order was breaking down
• Revolutions were sweeping across Europe
• October 1830 Belgians declare independence
• Italy nationalists worked to unite several states
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1830 Uprisings Crushed
• Metternich sent Austrian troops to restore order
• Poles living in Russia staged a revolt in Warsaw
• Russian troops took a year to crush a rebellion
• End of 1830’s Old Order was restored
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1848 Revolutions Fail to Unite 1848 ethic uprisings
erupted in Europe Metternich resigned
liberal uprisings broke out
Budapest Louis Kossuth called for a parliament and self-government
Prague, Czech liberals demanded Bohemian independence
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1848 Revolutions Fail to Unite European politics
continued to seesaw
Revolutionaries failed to unite themselves or nations
1849 Europe returned to convservatism
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Radicals Change France
• After Louis XVII died Charles X inherited the throne
• 1830 Charles suspend the legislature
• People revolt• Charles
abdicates and flees to London
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Radicals Change France
• News of revolution gets to Metternich
• “My life’s work is destroyed.”
• His reactionary ideals and absolute monarchies were crumbling
• Metternich feared revolution would spread through the continent
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The Third Republic
• Louis Philippe took over a constitutional monarchy
• Was an aristocrat and popular with the middle class
• Called the citizen because he wore regular clothes
• Called the citizen king
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The Third Republic
• He increased the number of voters
• Limited freedom of the press
• Rule became increasingly repressive
• Silenced those who opposed him
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The Third Republic• Third Republic
made some important reforms– 1882 made
primary education available for children 6-13
– 1884 trade unions legalized
– 1900 working hours reduced
– 1906 new act required employers to give employees off one day a week
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France Accepts a Strong Ruler
• Sparked by a ban of a banquet planned by reformers
• Louis Philippe quickly abdicated
• Citizens formed a new government
• Voters elected Napoleon’s nephew
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France Accepts a Strong Ruler
• 1870 Napoleon drew Prussia into war
• Napoleon III was captured and surrendered to the Prussians
• French Assembly deposed him
• Prussians invaded France and laid siege to Paris
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Reforms in Russia
1800’s Russia still not industrialized
1820’s most Russian’s thought serfdom must end
Prevented the empire from improving economically
Freeing them angers the landowners who the czar needed support to stay in power
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Defeat Brings Change
1853 Czar Nicholas threatened to take over part of Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War
Russia’s industry and transportation failed to provide adequate supplies for the troops
Russia lost the war in 1856
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Defeat Brings Change
Alexander II moves Russia towards modernization
Reforms would make Russia a world power
1861 Alexander frees the serfs
Nobles kept half the land
Peasant communities the other half
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Reform and Reaction
Each community had 49 years to pay back the government for the land
Debt still tied them to the land
Alexander III tightened control
Encourage industrial development
Nationalism stirred ethnic feelings