UNIT 3. The restoration:
liberalism and nationalism
Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)
European powers: Austria, Prussia,
Russia and Great Britain)
Liberalism, nationalism and democracy
Nationalism: form independent states
Democracy: people´s rights to participate in politics
Liberalism: individual liberties
The political revolutions of the 19th century
Revolutions of 1830
Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of the 1820´s
Spain, Portugal and Greece
Belgium and France
France
Italian and German unification
Nationalist movements
Italian unification
Congress of Vienna left the Italian Peninsula
Nationalist and liberal successes in other countries
Failure of the revolutions of 1848 encouraged nationalism
Important figures supported it
German unification
Liberal and nationalist ideas were popular
Frankfurt parliament failed trying to create an unified state with universal manhood suffrage
German confederation divided into 39 states
Customs union established (the Zollverein)
The Restoration
The reign of Fernando VII
The reign of Isabel II
Liberal phase
Absolutis phase
Ominous decade
The majority of Isabel II
The crisis and the end of Isabel II´s reign
The regency period
The democratic sexennium
Latin american independence
Causes
American and French revolutions and the Spanish war of independence
The financial assistance of Great Britain
Enlightenment ideas
Creole bourgeoisie
Consequences for Spain
Reduction of the international prestige and power
Economy sufferred
Spain lost its hegemony of Latin America