19th century Nationalism
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What caused the food riots?
The potato famine
Who unified Japan in 1600?
Who was Camillo Cavour?
The Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia in northern Italy in 1852
Caused the Peterloo Massacre?
Protest agianst The Corn Laws
Who were the Carbonari?
A secret revolutionary society working to unify Italy in the 1820s.
What did Giuseppe Mazzini want?
Wanted national unification and a republican form of government.
What were the four divisions of society before the Meiji restoration?
Samurai, Farmers, Artisans, Merchants
Who did Sardinia ally with in the Crimean War?
Britain and France
Who formed The Catholic Association?
Daniel O'Connell
Who was Klemens von Metternich?
This was Austria's foreign minister who wanted a balance of power in an international equilibrium of political and military forces that would discourage aggression.
What did women do in the fall of 1847/1848?
They tore down royal insignia and in 1848 started a brief revolution.
What changes did the 1889 Constitution introduce?
A new government system with an emperor and a parliament.
Who did Giuseppe Garibaldi lead?
The Red Shirts
What were the Corn laws?
Laws that put a terrif on imported goods like corn and were designed to keep Britians grain prices high.
What was the Reform Act of 1832?
An Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of the United Kingdom
Who was George Sand?
A French novelist who wrote best selling novels about the persucution of women.
Who marched on Koto in Dec 1867?
The Daimyo of Satsuma and Choshu
Who became the Prime Minister of Prussia in 1873?
Otto Van Bismark
What were the "Three Glorius Days" of July in 1830?
Louis Philippe was installed a king and created a constitutional monarchy.
What were the Unequal Treaties?
Series of nineteenth-century treaties in which China and later Japan made major concessions to Western powers.
Who sent 300,000 troops to finish off the Hungarians for his Austrian ally?
Tzar Nicholas I
When did the Emperor issue the Charter Oath?
April 1868
How long did The Austro-Prussian war last?
Just over 6 weeks
Who did the "Decemberists" try to make Czar instead of Czar Nicholas I?
Nicholas's brother, Constantin