Question 1

At the Congress of Vienna, the Austrian representative Prince Metternich pursued the policy of legitimacy,  meaning

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wishing to restore legitimate monarchs on their thrones, preserving traditional institutions and values

Question 2

After Napoleon\'s defeat, the Quadruple Alliance

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restored the old Bourbon monarchy to France in the person of Louis XVIII

Question 3

The Congress of Vienna

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created policies that would maintain the European balance of power

Question 4

The foreign minister and diplomat who dominated the Congress of Vienna was

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Klemens von Metternich

Question 5

Klemens von Metternich

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believed European monarchs shared the common interest of stability

Question 6

Conservatism, the dominant political philosophy following the fall of Napoleon

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was exemplified by Edmund Burke\'s Reflections on the Revolution in France, emphasizing the dangers of radical and \"rational\" political change.

Question 7

At its most elementary Burkean level, conservatism

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sought to preserve the achievements of previous generations by subordinating individual rights to communal welfare

Question 8

The Congress of Vienna was most successful at

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establishing an order that managed to avoid a general European conflict for almost a century

Question 9

The most important factor in preventing the European overthrow of the newly independent nations of Latin America was

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British naval power

Question 10

The Greek revolt was successful largely due to

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European intervention

Question 11

When protestors of high bread prices in England clashed with government authorities, the resulting conflict was known as the

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Peterloo Massacre

Question 12

By 1815, following the Congress of Vienna, the Italian peninsula

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remained divided into several states subject to the domination of other European powers

Question 13

The growing forces of liberalism and nationalism in central Europe were exemplified by the

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Burschenschaften, the student societies of Germany

Question 14

The Karlsbad Decrees of 1819 did all of the following except

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dissolved several smaller German states

Question 15

Following the death of Alexander I in 1825, Russian society under Nicholas I became

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became a police state, as the czar feared both internal and external revolutionary upheavals

Question 16

The argument that population must be held in check for any progress to take place was popularized by

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Thomas Malthus

Question 17

Which of the following statements best applies to David Ricardo?

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He developed the idea of the \"iron law of wages.\"

Question 18

The foremost social group embracing liberalism was made up by

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the industrial middle class

Question 19

J.S. Mill\'s On the Subjection of Women stated that

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men and women did not possess different natures

Question 20

Central to the liberal ideology in the nineteenth century was

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an emphasis on individual freedom

Question 21

The growing movement of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe

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was radical since it encouraged people to shift their political loyalty away from existing  states and rulers

Question 22

The utopian socialists of the first half of the nineteenth century were best characterized by

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Charles Fourier, who envisioned cooperative communities called \"phalansteries.\"

Question 23

In the July revolution of 1830,

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Louis-Philippe succeeded Charles X as king of the French

Question 24

King Louis-Philippe in France

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cooperated with FranÃ§ois Guizot and the Party of Resistance against the Party of Movement

Question 25

The most successful nationalistic European revolution in 1830 was in

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Belgium

Question 26

The primary driving force in the revolutions of Belgium, Poland, and Italy in 1830 was

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nationalism

Question 27

The Polish national uprising of 1830 was crushed by

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Russia

Question 28

Which of the following statements best applies to Thomas Macaulay\'s thoughts on reform in Britain?

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He supported reforms as a means of prevent more radical revolutionary movements

Question 29

The Reform Bill of 1832 in Britain primarily benefited the

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upper middle-class

Question 30

The English Poor Law of 1834 was based on the theory that

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if the conditions of provision for state welfare were intentionally made miserable, then  the poor would be encouraged to find profitable employment

Question 31

The revolution of 1848 in France ultimately resulted in

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a new French empire under Louis Napoleon

Question 32

Louis Blanc\'s \"national workshops\" in France

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became little more than unemployment compensation units through public works projects

Question 33

In 1848, the Frankfurt Assembly

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failed in its attempt to create a united Germany

Question 34

The uprisings in Austria in 1848 resulted in the

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exile of Metternich

Question 35

Giuseppe Mazzini\'s nationalist organization, Young Italy,

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failed to achieve his goal of \"resurgence\" by 1849

Question 36

Mazzini\'s risorgimento

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failed due to opposition of the French, the Austrians, and the pope

Question 37

Mass white male democracy in the United States was achieved during the presidency of

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Andrew Jackson

Question 38

Professional civilian police forces known as serjents first appeared in 1829 in

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France

Question 39

The politician who introduced the legislation that established London\'s first professional police force was

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Robert Peel

Question 40

Regular police forces and prison reform were geared toward

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the creation of more disciplined and law-abiding societies

Question 41

All of the following were characteristics of Romanticism except

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the rejection of the supernatural and unfamiliar

Question 42

The literary model for early Romantics was

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The Sorrows of the Young Werther, by Goethe

Question 43

The romantic movement can be viewed as a(n)

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reaction against the Enlightenment\'s preoccupation with reason

Question 44

The American romantic author of The Fall of the House of Usher was

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Edgar Allan Poe

Question 45

The most important form of literary expression for the romantics was

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poetry

Question 46

Which of the following were major themes/subjects of Romantic artists?

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landscapes and depictions of nature

Question 47

Romanticism in art and music was well characterized by

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Beethoven, whose compositions bridged the gap between Classicism and Romanticism

Question 48

In architectural styles, the Romantics were particularly attracted to the

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Gothic

Question 49

The Romantic artist whose paintings were described as \"airy visions, painted with tinted steam\" was

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Turner

Question 50

Religion in the age of Romanticism experienced

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a Catholic revival especially in Germany

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