The Long 19th Century

Ideologies

100

Ideology, emphasizing tradition, monarchy, and social hierarchy; was the guiding principle of the Congress of Vienna.

Conservatism

200

Advocated for class struggle and the collective ownership of the means of production (Venezuela no iPhone 100 gorbillion dead)

Socialism/Communism

300

This ideology, championed by thinkers like John Stuart Mill, emphasized individual rights, constitutional government, and free markets. 

Liberalism

400

The belief that peoples sharing a common language, culture, and history deserve their own sovereign state. Where did it originate? 

Nationalism, France.

500

Artistic and intellectual movement which emphasized emotion, nature, and individual genius as a reaction to Enlightenment rationalism. Name the movement + one painting related to it. 

Romanticism (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Liberty Leading the People, etc)

Imperialism

100

What event kickstarted African imperialism

Berlin Conference

200

Mid-19th century conflicts in which Britain fought to force China to accept imports of a specific substance, fundamentally undermining Chinese sovereignty.

Opium wars

300

This 1899-1901 anti-foreigner uprising in China; crushed by an eight-nation alliance, including European powers.

Boxer rebellion

400

Belgian king who turned the Congo into his personal plantation, resulting in the deaths of millions

King Leopold II

500

Name of the ideology used to justify imperialism

White man's burden/Social Darwinism 

Economics

100

Mass material produced that defined the Second Industrial Revolution (bonus points for naming the innovation in its production process) 

Steel, Bessemer process

200

English labor movement, named for a likely fictional figure, protested industrialization by destroying machinery they believed threatened their wages and employment.

Luddites

(Average Luddite in 1811)

300

1851 London event, housed in the Crystal Palace; engineered to showcase British industrial supremacy

The Great Exhibition

400

Devastating famine in the 1840s that killed over a million people, exacerbated by British laissez-faire policies. Led to massive emigration

Irish Potato Famine

500

This 1846 repeal, championed by the Anti-Corn Law League, symbolized the triumph of industrial and urban interests over landed aristocracy in Britain

Repeal of the Corn Laws

Wars & Conflicts

100

Series of wars from 1803-1815, spread Napoleonic reforms across Europe and ended with the Battle of Waterloo.

Napoleonic Wars?

200

Ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in the U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

Spanish-American War

300

This 1904-1905 war, which resulted in the first major military defeat of a European power by an Asian nation in the modern era, starkly demonstrated the widening gap between fully industrialized and still-industrializing states.

Russo-Japanese War

400

Name 3 wars of the long 19th century

Crimean war, Franco-Prussian war, Boxer rebellion, Napoleonic wars, Second Schleswig War, Austro-Prussian War, etc

500

Masterminded of German unification through "blood and iron." Name him + his 3 opps (countries he fought) or wars (either one works)

Otto Von Bismarck

France, Denmark, Austria
Or
Second Schleswig War, Austro-Prussian War, Franco-Prussian War

Reaction & Reform

100

What did the long 19th century start and end with

French Revolution and WWI

200

Approximately a 30 year period that followed the congress of Vienna. What was it called and what ended it?

Bonus: What 2 countries were not impacted by the event that ended the 30 year system?

Age of Metternich, Revolutions of 1848.

Bonus: Russia and Great Britain 

300

1830 revolution that saw the Bourbon monarchy overthrown in France, inspiring uprisings elsewhere in Europe

July revolution

400

Set of decrees suppressed liberal and nationalist movements in the German states?

Carlsbad decrees

500

The influential prime minister who used Realpolitik and war to achieve Italian unification

Camillo di Cavour


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