AP European History
Unit IX – “Reforms and Revolutions”
Guided Reading Questions (pp. 761-768)
Name ________________________
1. Why did Great Britain, France, and Russia assist the Greeks in their revolution
against the Turks, but other powers, particularly Austria, did not?
2. What were the Corn Laws and in what way did they represent the inequality of the
British Parliamentary system in the early 1800s?
3. What was the “Battle of Peterloo” (Peterloo Massacre)?
4. What changes did the Reform Bill of 1832 bring to Great Britain?
5. Why did conservative politicians like Prime Minister Robert Peel and some other
Tories come to support liberal economic reforms in the 1840s, such as the repeal of the
Corn Laws and the Ten Hours Act?
6. Why did the failure of the Irish potato crop in the 1840s lead to the Great Famine?
How did the Famine affect Ireland and its relations with Great Britain?
7. How did Charles X’s own actions lead to France’s July Revolution in 1830? What
were the results of that revolution?
8. In the end, what changes did the July Revolution truly bring to France?
9. To sum up, write a concise statement below about how each of the following states
changed between the 1810s and 1848? (Try to use the “isms” in your answer!)
Greece –
Great Britain –
Ireland –
France –