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For a detailed account of the Congress of Vienna, see David King’s Vienna 1814 or Adam Zamoyski’s Rites of Peace. Sir Harold Nicolson’s The Congress of Vienna actually carries the story through 1822 to discuss the activities of the Concert of Europe.
Henry Kissinger’s The World Restored focuses on the same period with an emphasis on Metternich and Castlereagh.
Metternich’s autobiography
Eyewitness accounts of the “Peterloo Massacre”
Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage”

Reaction and Conservatism, 1815-1830 – Quiz

_________________ was the major Austrian delegate to the Congress of Vienna; Russia was represented by ___________________.
Identify the three major principles on which the diplomats at Vienna constructed their settlement.
Identify at least one major tenet of conservatism in the early 19th century.
The British parliamentarian __________________ is often identified as an architect of conservative thought.
The ______________ Alliance and the _____________ Alliance had overlapping membership and purposes after 1815.
The Concert of Europe authorized Great-Power action to stop revolutions in ____________ and _____________ between 1815 and 1822.
The ________________ were censorship laws passed in German states with the primary purpose of suppressing Burschenschaften.
The “______________ Massacre” occurred when government troops attempted to break up an unruly crowd outside Manchester.

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