Due on test day: On the Final Exam, February 13th, 2015
Unit 9: The Age of Social Revolutions: Romanticism, Nationalism, Liberalism, and Conservatism
Discussion Questions and ID’s
Unit Curve
Directions: To ‘buy into’ the curve you must complete the following activities; answer the discussion questions, identify the list of key terms and events, and use the 6cs method to analyze the primary sources in each chapter (Parts I, II, & III). Remember a good Identification always includes three items: a good description, place in time, and the items significance. The 6cs method is: Content, Citation, Context, Connections, Communication, and Conclusions from the source.
Graded: These will be checked for completion only, and are to be completed at your discretion.
Scored: 25 points on a 60 point exam
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Part I:
FRQ Questions: (Answer)
1. In what ways did the legal division of society under the Old Regime fail to reflect the actual political and social conditions of France? What observations may be made about the
existing property system?
1. How was the principle of intervention established at the Congress of Vienna used by the Great Powers to both support and repress revolution? Describe the principal territorial
arrangements adopted at the Congress of Vienna. What attitudes were taken toward the peace settlement by (a) Prussia, (b) Russia, (c) Great Britain, (d) Austria? How was the
dispute over Poland settled?
2. Discuss the main ideologies of change in the first half of the 19th century. Which was the most powerful and why?
3. What accounted for the July Revolution in France? Explain the division of opinion in groups that favored the revolution. How was that conflict resolved? What was the effect
of the July Revolution on Great Britain?
4. What attitudes were emerging among the working people of Britain and France? What avenues were open to them for the improvement of their position?
5. Why did revolutions break out in so many different places at once in Europe in 1848? What can be said in general about these revolutions?
6. Discuss the major assumptions and characteristics of Romanticism and show how it affected literature, music, and art.
Part II:
Unit 9: The Age of Social Revolutions: Romanticism, Nationalism, Liberalism, and Conservatism : (ID)
Kagan Chap. 21 and 22
1. Congress of Vienna
2. Klemens von Metternich
3. “legitimacy”
4. balance of power
5. Edmund Burke and conservatism
6. Joseph de Maistre and conservatism
7. Concert of Europe
8. the congress system
9. Latin America revolts
10. Monroe Doctrine
11. Greek Revolt
12. Britain’s Tories and Whigs
13. Corn Laws and the Peterloo Massacre
14. Louis XVIII and Charles X
15. Carbonari
16. Germanic Confederation
17. Burschenschaften
18. The Decembrist Revolt
19. Tsar Nicholas I
20. Classical economics
21. Thomas Malthus
22. David Ricardo’s “iron law of wages”
23. John Stuart Mill
24. On the Subjection of Women
25. Utopian Socialism
26. Charles Fourier’s Phalansteries
27. Robert Owen’s New Lanark
28. Louis Blanc and Flora Tristan
29. France’s July Revolution of 1830
30. parties of Movement and Resistance
31. Reform Act of 1832
32. Revolutions of 1848
33. France’s Second Republic
34. Frankfurt Assembly
35. Louis Kossuth
36. Giuseppe Mazzini and Young Italy
37. Jacksonian Democracy
38. Serjents, “bobbies,” and Schutzmannschaft
39. London Mechanics’ Institute
40. Romanticism
41. Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther
42. Brothers Grimm
43. Sir Walter Scott
44. neo Gothic architecture
45. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
46. Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron
47. William Wordsworth
48. Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner and Eugene Delacroix
49. Ludwig von Beethoven and Hector Berlioz
50. Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity
Part III:
Primary Readings: (6cs)
Complete the 6cs for all of the readings.
Document 1) Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I, 1820: Conservative Principles
Document 2) Liberalism: Progress and Optimism, The Economist
Document 3) The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England
Document 4) An Eyewitness Account of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany