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"1848: The People's Spring - Coggle Diagram
"1848: The People's Spring
territories in (or around) 1815
39 independent states in a German confederation took the place of the Holy Roman Empire
Russia controlled eastern Poland, Lithuania, and Finland
Poland was created as a separate kingdom
Portugal, Spain, France, and England were nation-states
All of the major European countries were controlled by monarchs, including Russia
Quadruple Alliance: between Russia, England, Austria and Prussia. France was added in later and the alliance became known as the concert system.
political liberalism
grew out of the ideas from the Enlightenment (Locke, Rousseau) and John Stuart Bill
enforced constituions and a difference of opinion
enforced: limited monarchy, private property, individual rights, rule of law, among other ideas
economic liberalism
Agreed with some political liberalism ideas like private property
Most similar to Adam Smith's ideas about the invisible hand, laissez-faire, and a free market
wanted limited power for the government
nationalism
the main goal of nationalism was to have a unified nation-state where the state identified with the people and the community's politics
the idea of nationalism (both civil and popular) threatened the idea of monarchs and rulers with absolute power
Powerful monarchs started to centralize their power
around the time of the Protestant Reformation when people started questioning the Roman Catholic Church