STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 23:
STATE-BUILDING AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN EUROPE, 1850-1871
"Eastern
Question"
|
Battle of
Sinope
|
Nicholas I
|
|
Crimean War |
Alexander II |
Florence Nightingale |
|
Peace of Paris (1856) |
Cavour |
plebiscite |
|
Treaty of Plombières |
Victor Emmanuel II |
Otto von Bismarck |
|
Seven Weeks' War |
dual monarchy |
Franco-Prussian War |
|
Reichstag |
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) |
Maximilian |
|
Baron Georges Haussmann |
Chevalier-Cobden
Treaty |
Reform Bill of 1867 |
|
William Gladstone |
Benjamin Disraeli |
Third Republic |
|
intelligentsia |
Great Exhibition of 1851 |
Paris
Commune |
|
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky |
Charles Darwin |
natural selection |
|
Georg Hegel |
proletariat |
Friedrich Engels |
|
labor theory of value |
Risorgimento |
Realpolitik |
|
mir |
Zollverein |
Seven Weeks’ War |
|
Reform Bill of 1832 |
Suez Canal |
zemstvos |
|
“Will of the People” |
Cult of domesticity |
Karl Marx |
|
realism |
Sevastopol |
Gustav Flaubert |
KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
Danubian
Principalities
|
Crimea
|
Moldavia
|
|
Wallachia |
Bessarabia |
Romania |
|
Schleswig |
Holstein |
Bosporus |
|
Black Sea |
Sea of Marmara |
Dardanelles |
|
Sevastopol |
California |
Argentina |
|
Mexico |
Galapagos Islands |
Alsace |
|
Lorraine |
Romagna |
Nice |
|
Savoy |
Bosporus |
|
1. Did
German and Italian unification represent dreams come true for the revolutionaries
of 1848? Or were they dreams gone
wrong?
2. With
Napoleon I and Napoleon III in mind, Karl Marx famously argued that history
occurs the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. Do the actual careers of the two monarchs
bear him out?
3. How
did new concepts of domestic life complement new norms of economic life in the
second half of the nineteenth century?
4. Frederick
Engels said, "Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic
nature, Marx discovered the law of development of human history." Were the "scientific" philosophies
of Marx and Darwin compatible? Or were
they mutually antagonistic?
5. Whose
government was most effective in the second half of the nineteenth century,
Great Britain’s, France’s, or Russia’s?
Why?
6. What
was Realpolitik? How well did
major European political leaders uphold this ideal after 1850?