Upheavals (The Age of Metternich)

Europe is afraid of ___?

• War

• Nationalism

• Communism

• Russia

-Improves peasant life

-Overall bad reign

-Did not improve of serfdom, but kept it to continue nobel presence

-Codified Russian Law

-Believed in the divine right

• Tsar Alexander of Russia

• Charles X of France

• Tsar Nicholas I of Russia

• Catherine the Great of Russia

The Decemberist wanted

• Constitutional monarchy

• To abolish serfdom

• Kill the Tsar

• Establish a republic

Who joined Greece in the Greek War for Independence?

• GB, France, and Russia

• Spain, France, and Prussia

• Austria, France, and GB

• Russia, Austria and GB

The Greek War for Independence set up ___ across Europe.

• Border battles between Russia and Sweden

• Higher tarrifs

• Future uprisings

• Balance in power

Why did European powers choose to support Greece instead of the Ottomans?

• Racisim

• They were Christian

• They were European

• To restore the legitimate ruler

High tariffs on imported wheat, angering working and middle class liberals

• The Corn Laws

• The Six Acts

• Treaty of Paris

• Test Acts

"Peterloo" was responded with what?

• Corporation Acts

• The Test Acts

• The Corn Laws

• The Six Acts

The Six Acts...

• Reduced freedom of press, speech, and assembly

• Raised tariff's on imported wheat

• Took away voting rights from common (98% of) men

• Revoked freedom of religion

The Whigs were...

• Conservatives,

• Liberals, businessmen who felt underrepresented in Parliament

• Conservatives, middle class who wanted to restore an absolute monarch

• Liberals, working class who wanted UMS