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Congress of Vienna
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Assembly that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
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Klemens von Metternich
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Austrian politician who helped form the Quadruple Alliance.
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Principle of legitimacy
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The popular acceptance of a governing regime or law as an authority.
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Balance of power
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Designed to prevent one nation from imposing its interests on others.
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Conservatism
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The inclination, especially in politics, to maintain the existing or traditional order.
Opposition to sudden change. |
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Concert of Europe
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The consensus among the European monarchies favoring preservation of the status quo.
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Simon Bolivar
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South American soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in Peru.
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Jose de San Martin
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He superseded Manuel Belgrano in command of the army against royalist forces in Upper Peru.
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Monroe Doctrine
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Declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European colonization.
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Greek Revolt
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Rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman empire. The revolt began under the leadership of Alexandros Ypsilanti.
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Rotten boroughs
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A borough of an extraordinarily small electorate. A similar type of corrupt constituency was the pocket borough.
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Corn Law of 1815
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A series of British laws in force before 1846 regulating the grain trade and restricting imports of grain.
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Peterloo Massacre
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The result of a cavalry charge into the crowd at a public meeting at St Peter's Fields, Manchester.
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Louis XVIII
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King of France (1814–1824). His reign was interrupted by Napoleon (1815), but he returned to power after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
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Charles X
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King of France who attempted to restore absolutism by dissolving the Chamber of Deputies and terminating freedom of the press.
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The Carbonari
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Advocating liberal and patriotic ideas, they favored constitutional and representative government.
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Ferdinand VII
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He became king briefly in 1808 after the French invasion of Spain forced the abdication of his father, Charles IV.
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The Burschenschaften
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German student organization that started as an expression of the nationalism prevalent in post-Napoleonic Europe.
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The Karlsbad Decrees
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Resolutions issued by German leaders to suppress liberal and nationalistic tendencies.
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Alexander I
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Czar of Russia (1801–1825) whose plans to liberalize his country's government were slowed by wars with Napoleon I.
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Decembrist Revolt
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Unsuccessful uprising by Russian revolutionaries.
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Nicholas I
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Czar of Russia (1825–1855) who suppressed the Decembrist movement and led Russia into the Crimean War (1853–1856).
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Thomas Malthus
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British economist who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, arguing that population tends to increase faster than food supply.
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David Ricardo
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British economist whose major work, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817), supported the laws of supply and demand in a free market.
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John Stuart Mill
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British philosopher and economist known especially for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism.
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