Section 1 An Age of Ideologies
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Turn to page 214 in your book
Read through the timeline
Analyze pictures and maps
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Father Miguel
Hidalgo urges
Mexicans to fight for
independence from
Spain
Father Miguel Hidalgo
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Simon Bolivar, later
known as “The
Liberator,” seizes
Bogota from the
Spanish
Simon Bolivar
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French revolutionaries
battle the king’s troops
in the streets of Paris
French Revolution of
1830
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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.
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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
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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
Goal
1. To create a lasting peace, by establishing a
balance of power
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Protecting the system of monarchy
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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
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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
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Conservatives thought that defending peace
and creating stability benefitted all people of
Europe
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The ideological opposition to conservatives
were liberals and nationalists
Liberals and Nationalists believed in the ideas
of the Enlightenment
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Wanted governments to be based on a written
constitution with separation of powers
Spoke out against divine-right monarchy
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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
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Ideas of liberalism and nationalism inspired
revolts against the Old Order
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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
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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
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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