U.S. History Unit Two Reform, Revivals, Revolutions, and Unrest.
Reform Movements and Revolutions
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After exiling Napoleon, Euro leaders at Congress of Vienna tried to restore order and reestablish peace.
Purpose: Keep world safe from war. Maintain balance of power and diminish power of France
Effects - Nationalism spread, new nations would form. Revolutions occur in Latin America.
170 Edmund Burke- reaction to French Revolution
Sudden change unacceptable, agst violent overthrow of government
Favored obedience to pol authority Society organized and ordered Revived churches
LAmerica in hands of Spanish and Portuguese
1807-1824 series of revolts enabled most of Latin America to become independent
Simon Bolivar “GWasington of Latin America”Led troops across Andes to fight in Peru.
Liberated Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru from Spanish
Jose de San Martin- his forces liberated Argentina, Chile, and Peru from Spanish authority. Led forces over Andes
Effects of Revolution Guatemala, Honduras, Costa, Rica,
Nicaragua indiv. Republics. British power and Monroe Doctrine
protected Latin Americas Great Britain dominated economy-
tobacco, sugar, wheat, coffee
Greeks revolted agst Ottoman Turkish masters(Muslim control for 400 years),
Russ/Turk war Ottoman empire leaves it in hands of Europeans to decide
1830 Greece independent, great powers supported it.
Rural, agricultural, and autocratic Alexander I-absolute monarch freed pol prisoners, relaxed censorship, and reformed education.
No constitution given to serfs Brother Nicholas took throne
hired secret police, feared revolution
“Policeman of Europe” Russian troops crushing rebellions
“People should be free from restraint” Equality for all, Protection of civil
liberties, basic rights of people limited suffrage-men with property
qualify. Many believed in cons monarchy no
king (limit powers of gov)
Cause: Part of a community, Common institutions, traditions, language and customs
“Nation” people have loyalty Each nationality should have own
gov. Ex: Germans wanted German nation-
state
Response to rev upheavals develop civilian police forces
Prisons with separate cells (solitary confinement)
Or sent to colonies ex: French sent people to New Guinea, increase in prison populations
“More disciplined society”
Revolution in Germanic States, Austrian empire, Italy, Belgium, and France (again), Italy
Failed revolutions : Poland, Russia, Italy, and Germ
Reform legislation in Britain Successful Revolutions: in
Greece, France, and Belgium
Romanticism-artistic movement 1750-1850 appealed to emotion rather than reason.
Writers combined, history, legend, and folklore with a sad character who felt out of step with society
Revival of Gothic medieval architecture, Gothic lit., horror (Edgar Allen Poe)
Poetry, worship of nature
Music: Romantic composers- Beethoven and Chopin, to stir deep emotions
Art: Artists painted the beauty and power of nature. Peasant life to medieval knights to current events using bright colors
1848 France republic, universal male suffrage
1859-new generation Conservative leaders
Louis Napoleon- support of French people Authoritarian monarchy Liberalize gov, Prussia military defeat
brought regime to a collapse, gov subsidies, hospitals, free medicine, advocated better housing , modernize Paris, legalizing unions-right to strike
Queen Victoria took throne in 1837 (at 18)
Long reign, died in 1901 (at 82) England became wealthiest nation British Empire expansion
• “The sun never sets on England.”• Queen-empress over 200 million people
living outside Great Britain• India, North America, South Pacific, etc.
Ind. Revolution - Created new towns, goods, wealth, jobs for people climbing through middle class
Gradual political reforms:•First Reform Bill in 1832 extended vote to all men who owned property worth 10 lbs
•Second Reform Act in 1867 gave the right to vote to working-class men (except agricultural workers)
Women for suffrage – did not succeed until 1918 (30 & over)
Universal adult suffrage 1928 extended vote to women at age 21
Factory Acts – limited child & women labor
State supported schools est. in 1870; compulsory in 1880; free in 1891
Literacy rate increased from 40% to 90% from 1840-1900.
Crimean War-Russia vs. Ottoman Empire GB and France declare war on Rus. 250,000 died. 60% disease Effect: Breakdown of alliances causes
nationalism Florence Nightingale –Medical care to
Brit soldiers Her Efforts in Crimean War, helped
make nursing honorable profession for middle class women.
Italy gained independ. through alliance w/ France and Prussia, & military action of Giuseppe Garibaldi. (1870)
Germany-Ottoman van Bismark led Prussia to achieve unification of German states (1871)leader of “real politick”
Mid 1800s-Realists tried to show the world as it was.
Looked at the harsh sides of life. Hoped to improve the society they described.
Charles Dickens portrayed the lives of the slum dwellers and factory workers.
Drama: Plays attacked the hypocrisy of society. For example, A Doll’s House showed a woman caught in a straitjacket of social rules
Art: Focused on ordinary subjects, especially working class men and women
Discovery of microorganisms (germs) Principle of vaccination 1849s-1850s
health movement in response cholera movement
Gov hiring medical doctors, clean water1890s
New Medical Schools (most closed to females), struggle
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Laissez-faire Economics-economic policy of not interfering with businesses•Adam Smith—defender of free markets, author of The Wealth of Nations
•Believes economic liberty guarantees economic progress
•Economic natural laws—self interest, competition, supply and demand
•Capitalism—system of privately owned businesses seeking profits
Socialism—factors of production are owned and operated by the state for the people.
Socialists think gov control can end poverty, bring equality• Karl Marx—German journalist
proposes a radical socialism, Marxism
The Communist Manifesto(1848)•Marx believed society is divided into
warring classes•Capitalism helps “haves,” the employers
known as the bourgeoisie•Hurts “Have-nots,” The workers known
as the proletariat•Marx predicted the workers will
overthrow the owners
The Future According to Marx•Marx believes capitalism will eventually destroy itself
•Inequality would cause workers to revolt, seize factories and mills
•Communism—society where people own, share the means of production
•Marx’s ideas later take root in Russia, China, and Cuba
•Time has shown that society is not controlled by economic forces alone.
Unionization•Unions—associations formed by laborers to work for change
•Unions negotiate for better pay, conditions with employers
•Sometimes they strike—call a work stoppage—to pressure owners
•Skill workers are first to form unions•Union goals were higher wages, shorter hours, improved conditions
Reform Laws•British, U.S. laws passed to stop worst abuses of industrialization
•1842 Mines Act in Britain stops women, children working underground
•In 1847, workday for women, children limited to 10 hours in Britain
•U.S. ends child labor, sets maximum hours in 1904
The Abolition of Slavery•In 1833, reformers help end slavery in British empire
•Slavery ends in the U.S. in 1865; ends by 1888 in the rest of the Americas
The Fight for Women’s Rights•Women pursue economic and social rights as early as 1848
•International Council for Women founded in 1888; worldwide membership
Reforms Spread to Many Areas of Life•Reformers establish free public schools in Europe in late 1800s
•Public schools common in U.S. by the 1850s; prison reform also sought
1859-Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Argued humans had developed to their present state over millions of years.
To explain evolution, Darwin used the theory of natural selection which came to be known as “survival of the fittest.”
Darwin’s theory started a debate btwn scientists and religious leaders.
Social Darwinism: Applying the idea of survival of the fittest to war and economic competition. Social Darwinism encouraged racism, the belief that one racial group is superior to another
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