Section 1 An Age of Ideologies. Turn to page 214 in your book Read through the timeline Analyze pictures and maps.

Chapter 8 – Revolutions in Europe and Latin America,

1790 - 1848Section 1 An Age of Ideologies

Turn to page 214 in your book Read through the timeline Analyze pictures and maps

Bell Work

About the Pictures

Father Miguel Hidalgo

Father Miguel Hidalgo urges Mexicans to fight for independence from Spain

About the Pictures

Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar, later known as “The Liberator,” seizes Bogota from the Spanish

About the Pictures

French Revolution of 1830

French revolutionaries battle the king’s troops in the streets of Paris

Ideological Spectrum

After 1815, conservatives called for a return to the political and social structure that existed before 1789

Liberals embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment and wanted to limit the power of monarchs

Nationalists threatened the powerful empires of Europe by pushing for independence.

FOCUS

Conflicts emerged as conservative leaders opposed liberal and nationalist demands

List three goals that conservative politicians may have had during this time

List three goals that liberal politicians may have had during this time

FOCUS

Divide into three groups Group 1 = conservatism Group 2 = liberalism Group 3 = nationalism

Each group must outline its political movement by listing the attitudes, goals policies, and actions.

Assign two members to be the “experts” Experts must teach the other groups about

their political movement

Activity

Goal 1. To create a lasting peace, by establishing

a balance of power

2. Protecting the system of monarchy

Congress of Vienna - REVIEW

An attempt to turn back the clock to pre French Revolution 1789

Wanted to make the rest of Europe forget about the French Revolution and Napoleon

Congress of Vienna - REVIEW

Congress of Vienna was a victory for the conservatives

Conservatives supported the Old Order, or the way things were in Europe before Napoleon and the French Revolution

Old Order appealed to peasants because of its simplicity and rules

Conservatives and the Old Order

Conservatives thought that defending peace and creating stability benefitted all people of Europe

Conservatives and the Old Order

The ideological opposition to conservatives were liberals and nationalists

Liberals and Nationalists believed in the ideas of the Enlightenment

The Liberal and Nationalist Challenge

Wanted governments to be based on a written constitution with separation of powers

Spoke out against divine-right monarchy

Liberal Goals

1800’s national groups who shared common heritage set out to win there own states

Nationalism gave people with a common heritage a sense of identity and a goal of creating their own homeland

Nationalist Goals

Ideas of liberalism and nationalism inspired revolts against the Old Order

Revolts against the Old Order

Revolts against the Old Order, Serbia

United by Karageorge, Serbs revolted against the Ottomans beginning in 1804-1813

Serbs fought a guerrilla war style

Unsuccessful but forged a united Serbian identity

By 1830 Serbs won autonomy from Ottoman Empire with the help of Russia

Independence for Serbia

National identity, heritage and shared history forged a strong bond between Greeks

After winning support from Western Europe, Britain, France and Russia aided Greece in forcing the Ottomans to grant independence to some Greek provinces

By 1830 Greece completely independent

Independence for Greece

By the late 1820’s Southern Europe is nearly about to erupt with nationalist and liberalist revolutions

Metternich and other Old Order leaders struggled to put out the fires of national and liberal revolutionaries

Challenges to conservatism