AT Modern European History: Unit 6: Ideology & Revolutions

I. The Age of -Isms

In Perry, please read pages 505-519. How was the Romantic movement a reaction against the dominant ideas of the Enlightenment? What was the impact of Romanticism on European life?

Romanticism

Hegel: dialectical conflict

Phillis Wheatley and Romanticism

Nationalism (stop when they move after 1848)

What was the attitude of conservatives and liberals toward the Enlightenment and French Revolution? Why did Metternich fear liberalism and nationalism? What were the accomplishments and failures of the Congress of Vienna?

Congress of Vienna

How can the congress system be seen as a precursor to the supranational organization (e.g., a body having power or influence that transcends national boundaries or governments such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, or the European Union)? Congress of Vienna plus Perry, pgs. 533-537

The first set of -isms . . . Use the Role-Playing Handout to Review the First Set of -Isms

Crash Course: Capitalism vs. Socialism

Liberalism: Then and Now

The Birth of Modern Judaism: Enlightenment & Emancipation

II. Revolutions of 1815-1848

What were the principal reasons for the revolutions that broke out in Europe in the decades after the Congress of Vienna? What reforms were introduced in Britain between 1815 and 1848? Why isn't it breaking out in England with the Chartists? (Perry, pages 537-542).

Peterloo Massacre

Chartism

Democratic Reforms of Britain (Stop at Queen Victoria)

Revolutions of 1830

Watch the Latin American Revolutions episode from Crash Course World History and read "Letter from Jamaica," Simon Bolivar (1815). In reading, find evidence for the following arguments (annotate with numbering). Argument (1) Bolivar wrote strategically to persuade North America and Europe to come to their aid against Spain; (2) Bolivar wrote to dissuade European powers from trying to set up another "Congress" (of Vienna) system; (3) Bolivar wrote to unite revolutionaires in Latin America; and (4) Bolivar believed the form of government needed to reflect the local circumstances of a particular region.