Failed Revolutions
(Identify the Nation and Movement)
Definitions and Terms
Marx
Leaders
Reimposition of Order
100

This group had been seeking election reform through signed petitions without success then developed a militant wing: devising plans for systematic arson and organized insurrection. A spy revealed the plans and the revolutionaries were arrested before any violence occurred.

England, Chartist Movement

100

What is the name of the realist philosophy developed by Auguste Comte?

Positivism

100

In what city and in what year did Marx and Engels meet?

1844 in Paris

100

Who succeeded to the Austrian throne when Emperor Ferdinand abdicated in 1848?

Francis Joseph

100

What force intervened to help restore Pius IX to the papal throne after he had fled Rome under the short-lived revolution in the Roman Republic?


The French Army

200

Armed revolutionaries ousted the reigning monarch and set up a Constituent Assembly elected by universal male suffrage.  However the new government moved too slowly and cautiously for revolutionary leaders who attacked the Constituent Assembly.

France, Republicans

200

What is the term used to describe the idea that governments should not be guided by ideology but by practical interest.

Realpolitik

200

List three of the “Demands of the Communist Party in Germany”


A unified indivisible German Republic

Democratic suffrage

Universal free education

Arming of the people

Progressive Income Tax

Limitations on Inheritance

State ownership of banks, railroads, canals and mines

Large-scale, scientific, collectivized agriculture

200

Which leader rejected the title of Emperor of the Germans, offered to him by the Frankfurt Assembly?


Frederick William IV

200

What force was invited by Francis Joseph to help fight Magyar revolutionaries and restore Habsburg rule over Hungary?

The Russian Army

300

What was the date of the insurrection in the city of Vienna in which workers and students invaded the imperial palace and provoked Metternich to resign and flee to England?

March 13, 1848

300

What was Marx’s term for the tendency of working people to better themselves by dealing with employers and by obtaining legislation through government channels.


Opportunism

300

What were the three nineteenth century sources of Marxism?


German Philosophy

French Revolutionism

British Industrial Revolution

300

This leader was elected by universal suffrage but made himself emperor four years later.



Louis Napoleon Buonaparte

300

Who was the Austrian military leader who recaptured the city of Vienna from revolutionary forces after a five-day siege?


Windischgrätz

400

What was the one state in Italy which retained its own native dynasty and independence and attempted to reclaim other Italian states from Hapsburg rule and influence.

Sardinia (Piedmont)

400

What is the translation of bellum omnium contra omnes?


The war of all against all

400

What was the name of Marx’s major work, published in 1867?


Das Capital

400

What is the name of the leader of the radical party in the Hungarian diet?


 Louis Kosuth

400

How many people voted for Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as the president of France in the election of  December 2, 1851?


7,439,216

500

In the German confederation, name the two centers of nationalist/revolutionary leadership that checkmated each other in their efforts to unify and opened the way for reactionary forces to return to power.


The Frankfurt Assembly

The Berlin Assembly

500

What was Marx’s term for the social experience and state of mind produced when human beings in the historic process of mechanization become estranged from the objects on which they work?

Alienation of labor

500

What philosophy provided Marx with a way to unify all of his observations about politics, economy, and revolution?  What philosopher came up with it?


Dialectical Materialism

Hegel

500

What is the name of the provincial governor of Croatia who waged Civil War in Hungary against the Magyars.


Count Jellachich

500

Out of all the general revolutions that occurred in 1848 – only five small states succeeded in securing greater constitutional liberties.  Name them.

Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Piedmont