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Europe After Napoleon
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The Congress of Vienna

• Balance of Power
• Klemens Von Metternich
• Leader of Europe
• He set the tone for this whole period
• Conservative, anti-liberal, anti-nationalist.

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The Congress of Vienna

• Goals
• Compensation
• Concept of Legitimacy
• Security of Europe
• Quadruple Alliance
• Quintuple Alliance -- 1818 France included

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Klemens Von MetternichChancellor of Austria

• To Metternich the Revolution was
• the gangrene which must be burned out with the
  hot iron, the hydra with jaws open to swallow up
  the social order.

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Klemens Von MetternichChancellor of Austria

• I would grasp Metternich until I felt his red wet
  throat distill in blood thro these two hands
  
  
  
• Robert Browning

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The Congress of Vienna

• The major results of the Congress were as
  follows
• France was deprived of all territory conquered by
  Napoleon
• Russia was given most of Duchy of Warsaw (Poland)
  
• Prussia was given half of Saxony, parts of
  Poland, and other German territories
• A Germanic Confederation of 39 states (including
  Prussia) was created from the previous 300, under
  Austrian rule
• Austria was given back territory it had lost
  recently, plus more in Germany and Italy
• Norway and Sweden were joined

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The Congress of Vienna

• The neutrality of Switzerland was guaranteed
• Hanover was enlarged, and made a kingdom
• Britain was given Cape Colony, South Africa, and
  various other colonies in Africa and Asia
• Sardinia was given Piedmont, Nice, Savoy, and
  Genoa
• The Bourbon Ferdinand I was restored in the Two
  Sicilies
• The slave trade was condemned (at British urging)
  
• Freedom of navigation was guaranteed for many
  rivers

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Clash of IdeologyLiberal versus Conservative

• Congress wanted to turn back the clock and
  re-establish old order.

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Klemens Von MetternichChancellor of Austria

• My life coincides with an abominable period. I
  came into the world either too early or too late
  at present I am good for nothing ... I am
  spending my life propping up mouldering
  buildings.

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Dominant Themes of the 19th Century

• Conservatism
• Liberalism
• Nationalism
• Industrialism
• Nationalism
• Reform and Rebellion
• Socialism

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