NY State Curriculum Notes     

• What impact did the Congress of Vienna and conservative reaction across Europe have on the establishment of democratic states in Europe?

• What role did the individual citizen play in these revolutions?

• What reactions against revolutionary ideas occurred in Europe, Russia, and Latin America ?

• Impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon

• 19th-century Russian serfdom

• Expansion of Russia into Siberia

 Balance of Power Politics and the Congress of Vienna 

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• Congress of Vienna

• The Congress of Vienna--"There is always an alternative to conflict"

• Delegates to the Congress of Vienna of 1815

• Talleyrand and the Congress of Vienna

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Klemens von Metternich

• Metternich on the Censorship of the Press 1808

• Metternich on Making Peace, 1814

• Metternich on Italy, 1817

• Political Confession of Faith, 1820

• Renewal of the Carlsbad Decrees, 1824

• Metternich on Modena, 1831

• Metternich on Opposition in the Pressburg Diet

• Metternich on The Death of Emperor Francis

Tsar Nicholas I

• Imperial Manifesto on Poland, March 25, 1832

Revolutions of 1848

Historical Resources

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• 1848 Timeline

• Mass Politics and the Revolutions of 1848

• Encyclopedia of Revolutions of 1848

Important Individuals and Primary Sources

• Percy B. St. John: The French Revolution in 1848

• Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France

Russian Absolutism: Reforms and Expansion

Historical Resources

• Russian Absolutism
• Russian Serfdom

Important Individuals

• Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
• 1812: Napoleon's March to Russia