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Enacted in 1815, these laws protected British agriculture by placing strict limits on the amount of foreign grain to be imported. They resutled in keeping basic food prices aritificially high until their repeal in 1846.
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Corn Laws
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Prince Metternich was an ultra-conservative Austrian chancellor. The system bearing his name sought to restore pre-Napoleonic rulers to their thrones, restore the European balance of power, and repress liberal and democratic ideas. Metternich was forced to resign in 1848.
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Metternich System
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Afther France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the liberal National Guard rebuffed the Theird Republic's effort to disarm them and formed an independent Paris, a government called the Paris Commnune. The conservative president of France, Adolphe Thiers, sent more troops to capture Paris and a bllodbath ensued. The Communards were defeated.
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Paris Commune
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Beginning in 1845, a severe blight struck the European potato crop. In Ireland, the results were devastationg and millions died, with even more immigrating to Canada and the United States. The even is also clled the Potato Famine.
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Great Hunger/Great Famine
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In 1819 British tropps sought to stop a peaceful meeting at S. Peter's Fields in Manchester. Citizens favoring more liberal government policies organized the meeting. Soldiers killed several in the unarmed crowd and hundreds were injured.
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The Peterloo Massacre
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In 1814 a coalition of Britian, Prussia, Russia, and Austria met and agreed to restore the pre-Napoleonic balance of power as well as to restructure boundaries.
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Quadruple Alliance
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Extremely repressive laws adopted in 1819 in Prussia and the German Confederation. The decrees were meant to discourage liberal views and movements.
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Carlsbad Decrees
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Fought from 1853-56. The Crimean War pitted the Ottoman Empire (backed by Britian, France, and Sardinia-Piedmont) against Russia. Russia wanted to extend into Ottoman-held territory, and Britain and France objected. Russia was defeated and all parties suffered significant casualites.
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Crimean War
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Bismarck's political policy of doing whatever is necessary to promote the power of the state.
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Realpolitik
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The dispute initiated by Protestant Britain's takeover of Catholic Ireland in the 1700s and Britain's continued control of Northern Ireland has caused tension and violend between the two for centuries.
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"The Irish Question"
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The movement, a reaction to the incredible poverty seen in the industrial era, postulated that workers would live together in a clean, safe environment and work cooperatively. Frenchman Charles Fourier (1768-1837) was the author of this idea.
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Utopian Socialism
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