Age of

Metternich
1815-1848

IDs:
Concert of Europe

Carlsbad Decrees

The Great Reform Bills

Prague Conference

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

Congress of Vienna

Crimean War

July Revolution

William Gladstone
Paris Commune
Zollverein
Frankfurt Assembly
Peterloo Massacre

Chartists
Bismarck
Franco-Prussian War
Decembrist Revolt
Grossdeutsch vs.

Kleindeutsch

Metternich
1773-1859
Chancellor of

Austria
Chief broker of the

Congress of Vienna
Viewed himself as a

European citizen
Conservative

Europes Govts
Background

Constitutional Democracy
England
France

Suppressed Democracy
Germany
Austria
Russia

Congress of Vienna
Goal: Est. conservative order and reverse the

effects of the French Revolution

Four major powers (Quadruple Alliance)
England
Russia
Prussia
Austria

France
Talleyrand

Immediate Problems
Maintain peace

Common enemy
France BUT they were not to be punished

Frances (under Napoleon) territorial gains

Concert of Europe
An informal agreement for collective

security of Europe
Principle of Legitimacy
Anti-nationalism
Anti-liberalism

Metternich suppressed nationalism

Settlement with
France

Treaty of Paris,1815

Boundaries of 1790
Restoration of Bourbons
Indemnity of 700 million Francs
Return art

Generous terms
Oversea possessions
Buffer States
Belgium
Swiss Confederation
Kingdom of Sardinia

Removal of occupational troops after indemnity was paid

Legitimacy and
Compensation
Installed conservative or reactionary governments
Concept of Legitimacy
Hapsburgs
Papal States
House of Orange
House Savoy

Compensation
Awarded land to countries

Stop the spread of Nationalism

Divided Germany and Italy

Alliances
Quadruple Alliance
United Kingdom
Austria
Prussia
Russia

Holy Alliance, 1815

Austria, Prussia, Russia

Failure and
Successes

Repression by the monarchy

Spain
Two Sicilies

The Germanic Confederation

Burschenschaft
Carlsbad Decrees

France
England
Peterloo Massacre
The Six Acts of 1819

Rebellion of 1820
Two Sicilies
Ruled by the Austrians

Spain
The king violated the constitution

Portugal
Overthrew the government and Invited John VI to

control the country

Russia
Tsar Alexander Constantine (ab) Tsar Nicholas
The Decembrists

Metternichs
Responses

Quintuple Alliance (Quadruple+ France)

Protocol of Troppau
England refused

Naples,1821
Austrian troops massacre rebels and restore the king

Spain,1823
Austria, Russia, and Prussia invade Spain
Americas response

Greece,1821
England, France, and Russia defend Greece from the Ottomans
Treaty of Adrianople, 1829
Independent Greek States

Rebellions of 1830s

France
Louis XVIII
Followed the constitution

Charles X
July Ordinance
July Revolution

King Louis Philippe King of the French

Bourgeois King
New constitution
Limited the kings power
Expanded voting to 250,000 (1/3 of the pop)

Belgium
Catholic Belgians vs. Protestant Dutch
Catholics rebelled in Brussels
Belgian Independence
Supported by both England and France

Metternich could not responded:

Parma and Modena
German States

England
Constitutional Monarchy
Representation Problems
Rotten Boroughs
Pocket Boroughs

Election of 1830
The Whig (liberal party) took control of the

House of Commons

England
Reform Bill of 1832
More representation
Reduced the power of the aristocracy in

Parliament
Victorian Compromise

Chartists
Poor laws of 1834
Repealed of the Corn Law

Drag picture to placeholder or click icon to add

Revolutions of 1848

Introduction
Changed Western Civilization

Nationalist
Liberals
Factors

France
Louis Philippe franchised the rich

Frustrated the professionals

The February Revolution

June Day

France
Another Napoleon
Dec 1848- Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
1st President
1851- 2nd Emperor

German States
38 states rebelled
Wanted to form a single German State

Frankfurt Assembly
May 1848
Constitutional assembly

Failed

Austrian Empire
Demonstrations

Vienna

Budapest

Louis Kossuth

Prague

Slavic countries

Military intervention
June 1848
October 1848
Hungarians

Italy
Controlled by France, Austrian or Kingdom of Sardinia
Nationalists
Republic
Pope
Sardinia

Outcome
Piedmont declares war
Failed

Mazzini
Republic of Rome
Giuseppe Garibaldi