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Jeopardy 28
Reaction and Revolution in Europe
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10th Grade
04/03/2007

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Meeting that determined how to reorganize Europe after Napoleon's defeat
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the Congress of Vienna
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Austrian representative who was chairman of the Congress
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Prince von Metternich
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Chief French representative at the Congress
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Prince Talleyrand
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Form of government preferred by the Congress
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(divine-right) monarchy
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Britain gained these kinds of territories from the French, Danes, and Dutch
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overseas territories
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Nation that lost much of its territory after the Congress
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France
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The four powers that defeated France and Napoleon
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Austria, Russia, Prussia, Great Britain
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Russia's representative at the Congress
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Tsar Alexander I
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Nation that was divided between Russia and Prussia
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Poland
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Neutral alpine nation allowed to keep a constitutional republican government
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Switzerland
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Term for the political system set up by the Congress
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the Congress System
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Control of northern states in this nation was given to Austria
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Italy
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Ally of Napoleon that lost its possession of Norway
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Denmark
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Nation that was given to Sweden
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Norway
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Principle that favored restoration to their thrones of all the former ruling families
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legitimacy
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Great Britain's representative at the Congress
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Lord Castlereagh
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Prussia's representative at the Congress
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King Frederick William III
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Restored Bourbon king of France
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Louis XVIII
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Two nations that were combined into the single Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Belgium and Holland
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Prussia gained most of this former kingdom.
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Saxony
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Payment by the aggressor for damages inflicted on other nations
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indemnity
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Major benefit to Europe established by the Congress of Vienna for almost forty years
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peace (or stability)
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Statesman who dominated Europe for thirty years after the Congress of Vienna
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Prince von Metternich
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Suppression of this was the allies' main concern
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revolution (or liberal ideas)
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Equal strength among nations; aim of the Congress system
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balance of power
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The condition of things as they are; aim of the Congress system
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the status quo
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Spy system set up by Metternich to suppress revolutionaries
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the secret police
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Form of rule reestablished in Spain (and northern Italy)
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absolute monarchy
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Coalition of Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia after Napoleon
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the Quadruple Alliance
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One of the three rulers who refused to sign the Holy Alliance
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the King of England, Turkish sultan, the Pope
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The European alliance after France joined it
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the Quintuple Alliance
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Ruling family of France, Spain, and Italy
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the Bourbons
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Ruling family of Austria and northern Italy
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the Hapsburgs
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How Great Britain's government differed from its allies' governments
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being a representative government
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Metternich's way of handling liberal ideas
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suppression (repression)
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Desire to return to the conditions of an earlier time
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reaction
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Agreement of European rulers to rule as Christian princes
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the Holy Alliance
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Ruler who formed the Holy Alliance
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Tsar Alexander I of Russia
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Term for the governing of Europe by international agreement during this period
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the Concert of Europe
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Nation that withdrew from the Alliance in 1822
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Great Britain
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Metternich's official government position
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foreign minister of Austria
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Louis Napoleon's position after being president
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being emperor
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Louis Napoleon's official name as emperor
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Napoleon III
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Waterway in the Near East built by French engineers
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the Suez Canal
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Napoleon installed an emperor in this American country
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Mexico
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France's war against the German states
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the Franco-Prussian War
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Two opposed groups of society that supported Louis Napoleon
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workers and the middle class
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Two democratic features of the French empire
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a constitution, a legislative body, universal male suffrage
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Two nondemocratic features of the French empire
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only emperor could make laws, legislature has no spending power,
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France fought with England in this war against Russia.
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the Crimean War
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Napoleon strengthened French rule over this North African country.
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Algeria
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Napoleon established French control over this Indochinese country
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Cambodia
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Emperor installed in America by Napoleon
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Maximilian
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Leader who ended the French empire in America
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Benito Juárez
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Revolutionary council of Paris set up in 1871
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the Commune
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The failure of this canal-building company in the 1890s caused a financial scandal
Definition
the Panama (Canal) Company
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Main reason for the instability of government in the French Republic
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large number of political parties
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Napoleon Bonaparte's relationship to Louis Napoleon
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Louis's uncle
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Government established by Louis Napoleon to succeed the republic
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the Second Empire
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France protected these people in the Ottoman Empire
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Roman Catholics
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Napoleon's fate in the war against Prussia
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to become a prisoner of war
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Monarchs granted their people these rules of government because of the revolts.
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constitutions
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English romantic poet who died in the Greek revolt in 1824
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Lord Byron
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Center of riots in the French revolution of 1848
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Paris
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A revolt in this country in 1820 challenged King Ferdinand's power
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Spain
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A revolt broke out in this area of southern Italy in 1820
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Naples
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This neighbor of Spain experienced a revolt in 1820
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Portugal
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People who rebelled against their harsh rulers in 1821
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the Greeks
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Brutal rulers of the Balkan states and Greece
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the Ottoman Turks
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Balkan people who gained some self-government in the 1820s
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Serbs and Romanians
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Country that won independence from the Dutch (Holland) in 1831
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Belgium
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Country where liberal reforms occurred without revolution
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England
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Social class that supported the French revolt of 1830
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the middle class
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Voting rights gained by the French in 1848
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universal manhood suffrage
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Two Central European nations that had unsuccessful revolutions in 1848
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Austria, Germany, Hungary
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First president of the new French republic
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Louis Napoleon
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Powerful force for both unity and disunity in 1800s Europe
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nationalism
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French king overthrown in July 1830
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Charles X
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King elected by the leaders of the French revolt in 1830
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Louis Philippe
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Government set up by the French revolution of 1848
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the Second French Republic
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People who revolted against Russian rule in Warsaw in 1830
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the Poles
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Elected German assembly that met in 1848 to write a constitution
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the Frankfurt Assembly
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